Playing with Blender Lighting

In the former post I wrote I was not 100% satisfied with the lights in my former setup. So, I set up a similar rig from scratch. Now, this one is cool. Or at least I like it. It is much more flexible and gives better results. I can control the darkness of the shadows. Positioning the light is much easier. The former setup also had a drawback that the shadow gradients were not smooth at large resolution images. I simulate area light with a bunch of spots distributed on a plane. In the former setup the distance between the vertexes of the plane was too big. Now it is better. Here is an example (Click this image for 3200×2000 resolution):

Maybe the shadows could be a bit darker in this image.

Yesterday I have found a really cool tutorial about character animation at Blender mediawiki. It is also available in pdf format. I’m planning to read this trough and also do it in practice.