Dustin introduces Octane Render as a tool as an add-on to C4D. This is where your experience as a photographer leaves you well ahead of the curve in the creative side of 3D. You’ve already got the skills it takes to create beautiful renders, possibly without even knowing it. Just as with real wor...

Dustin opens Octane within Cinema 4D for the first time to begin showing the overall interface of the plugin.

Dustin uses Octane to show lighting details on a model in Cinema 4D, explaining how lighting works, how to adjust lighting, adjust color temperatures of lights and make different modifiers for the lighting.

Dustin shows how HDRI inside of Octane can be used to light a model in a way that takes the environment the model is into account. With HDRI colors and reflections (material dependent) can be seen inside of the model.

Dustin shows the daylight system feature inside of Octane in Cinema 4D to show how the lighting of the model can be impacted by its environment in lighting and shading.

Dustin shows how each light bulb actually has a different pattern to their light fallout and shape. Octane has accounted for this by taking IES profiles from manufacturers and adding them to the program.

Dustin walks through how to adjust camera settings in Octane to account for camera focal length, number of aperture blades, bokeh, sensor size, and lens.

Using Octane’s Object tagging to tell the computer how the model should react to the scene in terms of shadows, lights, and other objects.

Dustin discusses how to link various lights within the set together and have them intelligently interact with each other.

Tagging is a system that allows the computer to know how objects should and should not interact within the 3D viewport space. This is useful for everything from locking objects in place to assigning a spotlight to an individual item to follow as it moves through the scene.

Dustin does a demonstration of lighting and camera settings found within Octane to show various capabilities found within the program.