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HDR Light Studio 3.0 has arrived!

January 1st, 2012

Lightmap launches HDR Light Studio version 3.0

HDR Light Studio v3.0 features: Collada support, new light blending modes, custom fall-off curves and faster render times

Click here to see full list of new feature and demo videos

1st January 2012 – Lightmap today announced immediate availability of HDR Light Studio v3.0 – the most incredible version yet of their groundbreaking real-time lighting software. Packed with new features including; localized exposure, color and saturation tools using new light blending modes, custom fall-off curves, a new color system for lighting artists and Collada support. Read more

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Set the Diamonds free – Visual Arts Productions

November 29th, 2011

This is a great animation project shared with us by Robert at Visual Arts Productions (www.v-arts.ch). It’s really great to see HDR Light Studio used on animation projects… a great job and well done to the team over there.

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Lighting Contest 2011 – Results

November 24th, 2011

First of all… big thanks to everyone who entered. It was great to see what our customers have been up to with HDR Light Studio.

It wasn’t easy to choose the winners from the wide range of entries and subject matter we received. The top 3 represents the selections of all the judges… but we were by no means all in agreement – this was tough… many images were really great and it is a very subjective task. This competition was all about the lighting and how the image based lighting had contributed to the final render. The top 3 images clearly demonstrate how good image based lighting, even if it is simple and subtle, can bring a 3D object to life.

Onto the results… (Fanfare!) Read more

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Stanley Black and Decker

November 4th, 2011

Lightmap are delighted to have Stanley Black & Decker onboard as new users of HDR Light Studio software.

“The HDR Light Studio plugin for KeyShot has dramatically improved our workflow. We now have full creative freedom to experiment with different lighting schemes with dynamic results. The combination of KeyShot and HDR Light Studio is our design teams complete solution for digital 3D visualization. “
Dave Miller, Designer, Stanley Black and Decker

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Jeff Patton NVIDIA feature

September 29th, 2011

There’s a nice feature on Jeff Patton and his work using 3DS Max with iRay on the NVidia web site. Check it out here: http://www.nvidia.com/object/mercedes-benz.html

It does however fail to mention that Jeff has been a long time user of HDR Light Studio in his work, and in fact it’s a key component in achieving his superb results. Nearly all Jeff’s renders now utilize HDR Light Studio – in most cases representing all of the lighting for the scene. Jeff is able to take background photographs and build convincing HDR environments using HDR Light Studio to work on top of existing HDR environments from other locations and craft them using additional lighting and effects – so you’d never guess no HDR was shot on the background location.

The results are great car renders that bring out the best in the vehicle whilst bedding the car into the background. Certainly iRay and HDR Light Studio has proven to be an ideal partnership here.

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More than cars and product shots! So cool!

September 27th, 2011

One of the most amazing things about working at Lightmap is seeing the images our customers send us… we are often impressed and sometimes surprised. We were very pleased when Piotr at Ars Thanea (www.arsthanea.com) shared these images with us. Piotr has now adopted HDR Light Studio as his main lighting tool when working in 3DS Max. He creates the overall lighting as a HDRI using HDR Light Studio…sometimes adding light to an existing HDRI… and then adds maybe one CG directional light mainly for controlling more distinct shadows. Read more

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PI-VR IMPRESS 3D

September 27th, 2011

Just got back from an amazing event in Berlin – IMPRESS3D by PI-VR

It was a great opportunity to meet our VRED plug-in users all in one place. Because HDR Light Studio is very easy and intuitive to use… we don’t hear too much from our customers. But meeting face to face we could hear how our lighting tool had fitted so well into their rendering workflow. Read more

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The Most Incredible Valve Rendering You’ll Ever See

August 31st, 2011

We spotted this posting over at the KeyShot blog. It seems Tim, one of our HDR Light Studio for KeyShot plug-in beta testers has been creating some awesome renders during the beta phase…

Check out the KeyShot blog posting here:
http://blog.keyshot.com/the-most-incredible-valve-rendering-youll-ever-see

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HDR Light Studio Live for KeyShot

August 23rd, 2011

HDR Light Studio Live plug-in for KeyShot released!

LONDON – 1st September, 2011
Lightmap Ltd is proud to announce the launch of the HDR Light Studio Live plug-in for Luxion KeyShot. HDR Light Studio brings a professional real-time HDRI lighting tool-kit directly into KeyShot to allow users to vastly improve the quality of their renders with custom lighting designs for each shot that brings out the best in the subject. With its simple yet powerful interface, 3D artists, designers and engineers of all levels can quickly transform their shots into works of art to help sell their new ideas. Existing HDR environments can be augmented to improve the quality of their renders with more control over the lighting and reflections. Read more

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PI-VR IMPRESS3D 2011

August 5th, 2011

Lightmap Ltd are delighted to be exhibiting at the PI-VR IMPRES3D event on the 22nd and 23rd of September 2011 in Berlin. It will be a great opportunity to meet with our VRED plug-in users. Lightmap will be demonstrating the new HDR Light Studio version 3.0 at this event. For more information on IMPRESS3D visit: http://event.pi-vr.de/en/info.html

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