Uploaded October 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Taking some photography principles and applying it to Unreal. Chapters below. Hope this helps :D

Render Presets: jonjagsnee.com/Jags-Unreal-Engine-Render-Presets

00:00 - Start
00:06 - What most people do (and you maybe shouldn't)
01:02 - Setting up your Ambient Light
03:00 - The Best Lighting Reference
04:07 - Key Lighting
07:08 - Enabling Ray Traced Shadows
09:32 - Controlling your Exposure / Lighting
10:24 - Please, for the love of god, add this to your scenes...
11:20 - Fill Lighting
17:08 - Why your lighting looks bad sometimes
20:25 - Rendering a Metahuman Still


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Software I use
- Da Vinci Resolve
- Adobe After Effects
- Maxon Cinema4D
- Unreal Engine 5


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