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Say a frame casts a shadow and a vase bounces light of a different hue into it but of the same value.

25 May 10:56

depends, what do you mean by work?

25 May 10:55

Colour and value can work independently though, can't they?.

25 May 10:54

Combine that definition of ambient/reflective light with the general rule of "cast shadows are halfway to black the color of midtone" and you got realistic values

25 May 10:54

1st class education. "You're doing it wrong, stop that."

25 May 10:53

yeah, never really got explained anywhere, they just say don't paint black ;')

25 May 10:52

Yeah, its one of those things you realize with practice

25 May 10:51

So that's why and how nothing should be painted as flat black, I'm guessing. Something i was taught but it was never explained.

25 May 10:47

I think of ambient light as "the light that fills the shadows of ALL objects", while reflected light is "the light that bounces from - and fills the shadows of - objects close to eachother"

25 May 10:46

nice vids! Thank you

25 May 10:42

i think he talks more about light in the 2nd and 3rd videos

25 May 10:39

ron lemen has some videos on rendering that i thought were helpful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pd0xqPzKCc

25 May 10:37

yea

25 May 10:37

its like everything thats in the light is its own secondary light source

25 May 10:35

that makes sense

25 May 10:34

How I see it now is that ambient light is more like sky light (planes facing up) and bounce light is planes facing down. reflective from surrounding objects. Sorry if I'm confusing you :p

25 May 10:33

yea you could think of it that way i guess

25 May 10:32

Jun

Doesn't ambient light affect the whole scene, but reflective is more local?

25 May 10:32