As a lighting artist I find myself solving technical problems 99% of the time instead of being creative. Though I feel like my studios workflow is out of whack.
Being an aspiring VFX artist with a lot of experience in real-world lighting from indie cinematography and photography, this is a career that interests me. Especially since I also have some formal training as a composition and a lot of experience programming, because I was working as a software engineer while doing cinematography on the side since indie work doesn't pay the bills :) How critical is any particular renderer to know? I'm mostly rendering with Karma these days because it's fast, beautiful, and included with the Houdini Indie license, but in school we had four days in Nuke for compositing and one day in Maya with Arnold for lighting. We also got an introduction to Katana in the lighting portion, but I generally use Solaris, partly due to Karma being a lot faster than Arnold and not available in Katana :) Thanks for this explainer!
The skills learned are fairly transferable from renderer to renderer but it does help. Solaris is fairly in demand these days so that's good, but Karma isn't often used as a renderer in production, so it's helpful to know at least one of the others like Arnold or Renderman
@@crafthive In that case, I'm glad that I took the time to learn Solaris! I suppose I'll have to install some educational licenses for familiarization purposes then, at least until my budget allows for some license purchases.
