LIGHTING: Ambient Lighting in Vray As An Alternative to GI and Dome Lighting

As I take a semi-permanent retirement from pushing pixels, I had lots of time lately to think and experiment - I was finally able to try out other production techniques. Vray's Ambient light one of them and was quite happy of the outcome.

I'd like to use this space to delve into this lighting technique which is more shader based, pretty similar to using Vray Dome Light but a lot faster. Not as precise as Global Illumination but flicker-free. Who uses GI for features and big format animations anyways?

I'll post the quick tutorial here in a few days. Stay put.

Glad to be here again!

UPDATE: August 24, 2011

I'm sorry for the delay, We'll akala ko makakaretire na ako permanently - hindi pa pala...
I've been tucked down under deadlines, Here's the Commercial I did in the states a few months back using Ambient Lighting which I'll discuss as soon as I am done with my freelance work. Kudos to the wonderful guys at BP in LA and to the rest of the CG team.

Thanks sir V mukhang promising...aabangan ko ito......

Ako din Sir alam kung malaki ang matutunan ko nito... aabangan ko din ito

glad to hear from you again Vertex! been using Vray Ambient in my animations too since it was introduced and never really employed GI in production. looking forward to your tutorial

I've tried vray with no GI, but not the ambient light. I wanna know! Thanks V. aabangan ko talaga to.

glad you're back itay.... miss ka na namin... i hooked once with vray's ambient light but failed... wanna know your process... thanks in advance... (kilig and excited)

this is something to wait for... thanks roy..

Good to here from you again sir v.... can't wait for the tutorial...!

well definitely wait for that tutorial. Thank you in advance Sir

thanks sir i will wait for this

Will wait for this.

Thanks Sir.

cant wait drool.. TFS!

naglalaway na ako...can't wait for the tutorial

kaabang abang ito sir Vertex, thanks in advance!

wala paba ito nasa ibang thread na? cant wait!