I used to think my lighting portfolio was solid with cinematic shots, decent renders, cool environments.
But I wasn’t getting replies. No callbacks. No interviews.
Turns out, beautiful lighting isn’t enough in today’s game industry

As time progressed I realized some key things that needed to be accepted

• The industry is competitive and flooded with talent. More so now with companies shutting down and massive layoffs. See image below.

• Studios are hiring people who can solve problems like lumens, light mass baking for VR, exposure mismatches, light mass noise, GI leaks, not just make pretty shots

• Many artists don’t know when to use Lumen vs CPU vs GPU, and that shows in their scenes

• It is really difficult to learn art, tech and innovation alone.

 
 Lay offs since 2022 are increasing.

I built my first lighting course a few years ago and recently I developed the Ultimate Game Lighting Education course based on the workflows I’ve used in production on games like Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon, As Dusk Falls, and Off The Grid to name a few.
Since launching 2021, I’ve seen students land jobs at EA Games, Super Massive, Retro Studios, Ubisoft, Avalanche, Studio Gobo, 11 Bit Studios, and more, not by doing more art, but by lighting smarter. 

"Amit and the lessons he taught me in my mentorship were key to landing my first job in the industry. He helped me build upon my composition and color skills while also introducing a lot of the technical aspects of the career.." - Thomas

"For a long time I was looking for various training courses, tutorials, etc. that would allow me to enter the world of Lighting Artist in the game development studio. After many weeks of searching and conversations, I came across Lighting Bot Academy. I knew then that I was in the right place. I received a good dose of information and a strong foundation to start my adventure as a Lighting Artist." - Dawid

Even if you already took another course similar to these students you will grow and benefit many times through my course material.

Before course

After the course

If you’re an environment artist, lighting beginner, or someone who just wants to be taken seriously for game roles, I built this course for you.

You’ll learn:

• When and how to use CPU, GPU, and Lumen

• How to light for mobile, VR, console, and stylized art

• Exposure workflows, fog, bounce, shadows, post process, and more

• Access to community forum

• Request additional videos

• Unlike before you go through multiple environments, time of day and optimization workflows.

It’s over 187 lessons and trusted by 20+ studios. And the lessons are not going to stop.

I gave an offer to join at 25 USD, then 59 USD, then 129 USD, then 249 USD and kept updating videos and price accordingly.

Right now, it’s 65% off for early birds for this week only.

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Don't need to believe me. Believe others. Read more and see more in the link.

Don’t wait for someone to give you the perfect scene or lighting setup.
Learn how to light any environment and build the confidence to back your vision with game engine knowledge unlike before.

In this video I show you quickly how to setup a PBR validator in Unreal Engine 5.5 so you can check if your own or team members materials are correctly setup.

PBR Validator and Material Fixing Tutorial

You can grab a growing collection of free unreal lighting tutorials as a bundle to make your life easier. I will sometimes update or add more stuff into it.

• Hitman Lighting Analysis
• Lightshaft
• Overcast lighting
• Bladerunner
• Joker subway lighting
• etc

Free Unreal Lighting Tutorial Bundle

In case you missed it, be sure to watch my light shaft tutorial.

In this video I show you step by step on how you can setup a light shaft material with edge fade, camera fade and more. It should be enough for you to use or improve upon for your usage. I go through some of these nodes: eye adaption, time, speed, gradient, texcoordinate, breakout2component, power, depth fade, scene depth, substract, pixel depth, divide, camera depth, fresnel and so on.

Light Shaft Tutorial

In this video which is built on previous video about Intro to Overcast Lighting using atmospheric settings mostly, I am showing how you can use it again a long with the fog to achieve similar look as Blade Runner 2049 Orange Desert Look.  

This time I go a bit more into detail in a structured manner showing how the settings alter the look of my Blade Runner scene, so you can better understand how it impacts the decisions you might need to make yourself in the future. 

Topic we cover is how it was done in the movie, sunlight, cloud cover, fog density, exponential fog, atmospheric particles, mie scattering, mie absorption, mie anisotropy, mie exponential distribution, rayleigh scattering, rayleigh scattering distribution, sun angle, color temperature, multiscattering, atmospheric height, multiscattering, exposure settings, why other methods is worst than my method etc.

Blade Runner 2049 Lighting Tutorial

In this video I give you a brief introduction on how to do lighting using atmospheric settings. Most  videos I have seen depend solely on directional light, sky light and post process to achieve an overcast lighting. I will explain what to keep in mind for overcast lighting or generally when lighting exterior to replicate realistic settings. I mention Atmosphere Height, Multiscattering, Mie Anisotrophy, Mie Exponential Distribution, Rayleigh Scattering, Exposure value setting, sunlight lux setting, extinction scale, scattering distribution and more. You should be able achieve  results like below that supports technical artist and graphics programmer later down the line when more complex tools or calculations are added into the pipeline.

Overcast Lighting Ue 5.5 Lumen Tutorial

Hey,

I like making extra income on the side as much as anyone else but I love helping people in the process. I see a lot of people struggling, getting laid off and it is even harder to pay for premium content. My content is on premium pricing and level normally, worth 500 dollars to 4000 dollars.

But...what I don't like is people not getting access to this content in a time of need. So, I am giving Part 2 of our known proven Lighting Course for less than your lunch food right now. If you didn't grab part 1 it is recommended to do that first, as it builds upon it!

I have had 500 people so far learning for free this year and I have seen people teaching it forward, getting work, and even promotion. So, I assure you every part uses a different approach to explain the same concept for maximum impact.

So, if you like the content consider liking, following, sharing, and mentioning it. If you want to really support more content then consider joining as a member. Below are various links just click the one you are comfortable with, or to decide what works best for you.

Here is Part 1 if you didn't get it already.

Here is part 2 released today.

Here is full video collection, mentorship and more on our website.

Here is my personal youtube for more free content.

Here is the other youtube for Lighting Bot for interviews, workshop and so on.

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Hey,

Thanks for visiting my blog. I just want to inform you that I have put some key part of my course available on artstation learning due to inflation, as I understand some people are having difficult times and this knowledge will help you do better in your role, especially lighting artist for games. This is in no way the full course. The full course contains various time of day, other sky authoring methods, fundamental lighting and art as well as demonstration updates in UE5 and Lumens a bit. So, if you like the content consider liking, following, sharing and mentioning it. If you want to really support more content then consider joining as a member. Below are various links just click the one you are comfortable with, or all to decide what work best for you.

Here is the artstation free course
Here is the direct more organized one on our website 
If you rather wait and use youtube, subscribe to my playlist.
Click here if you want to support more seriously, get more access such as da vinci color grading course and more.
If you want to join the free public Discord server to show off and engage with us.

Thanks and I hope you find value in this. See you around for more cool stuff.

Regards,

Amit Patpatia

I have added some unedited videos to the unreal lighting course over at Lighting Bot with the intent to show the process, iteration, thought process and mindset on how to light. As you initially go through the course to learn exposure, ev, physically correct values, editing poor materials and do as little as possible for game ready lighting environment. However, it does not mean it stops there. In these new videos, I show at the end of each time of day how I change up everything or tweak minor things to really push the story, mood, intent, and possibilities of one single environment. So, it went from just doing 4 to almost 8 ways of lighting one single environment to really push you to the next level.

Here are some sample images of the new videos.

For people who want to save time and money with customized mentorship. Here is a sample testimonial which you can find more of on the website Lighting Bot.

I am expanding the Lighting Bot course to include other lighting mood and various of ways to approach these lighting. Here are some experiments that you learn to do.

If you want to support the community by gaining value and learning something you can stop by and purchase the course that goes on funding the cost of the community and various licenses.

https://courses.lightingbot.com/introduction-to-unreal-lighting-ue-4-7