LightBox01 - for small product rendering in Blender

I have for a while wanted a simple basic “light box” for quick nice looking product renders in Blender. This weekend I ended up making LightBox01. The basic setup consists of four area lamps inside a box.

Here are a couple of sample renders, using LightBox01, with the internal Blender renderer.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5215885180_e9e546d4ec.jpg
Suzanne in chrome by Thomas Berglund, on Flickr

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5010/5215885672_d87f696f71.jpg
Apple Motion icon revisited by Thomas Berglund, on Flickr

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4091/5218887535_3818b8edee.jpg
Compressor screw by Thomas Berglund, on Flickr

Here is the blend file: LightBox01.blend (572 KB)

Please let me know what you think :slight_smile:

Those are some truly fantastic images.

I’m tempted to use that setup you’ve shared to build some basic molecule models and render them that beautifully.

How long did you spend creating your scene, lighting and materials to accomplish those images?

What were your average render times for each image, and on what kind of machine?

Thank you so much for sharing!

great looking renders! thanks for the blend file.

Thanks! These look great! One question, how did you create the box?

@admiral Thank you! I spent about a day coming up with this scene. Quite a bit of trial and error, as I started playing around with 3D and Blender just about a year ago :slight_smile:

Render times really depend on the material settings of your model. The Suzanne image takes 1 minute and 20 seconds to render. Both the Apple Motion icon and the Compressor screw takes about 10 minutes to render each, as they roughly have the same material settings. These render times are on an 8-core 2.4GHz Mac Pro (2010). I wish Blender could make use of the GPU in this machine :cool:

I will keep on refining the rig, as I learn more about Blender.

@comeinandburn: Thanks! You’re welcome :slight_smile:

@andras08: Did you have a look at the blend file? The box is just a sub-divided, sub-surfed cube with a basic material.

Really great, love stuff like this that makes life easier for everyone, would you be willing to share it on blendswap.com? Again great work and thanks for the share.

@mofx: Thanks!

Just submitted it to blendswap.com :slight_smile:

Wow! Thank you!!

haha just over 4 mins render time on my laptop… (i7)
thank you for sharing :smiley: this will defiantly be useful

Thank you for sharing this!

You’re welcome!

Glad you all like it :slight_smile:

Hey, I just found your render on twitpic. Very good render setup!
Also, have a look at:

t0m0’s works
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=201819

Cool! Those are indeed some very impressive renders :slight_smile:

While there’s some shadows that are a little harsh it is indeed a nice setup to render objects with. :slight_smile:

It all depends on how well it hold up for other types of objects.

Very true. This setup will most definitely need a little bit of tweaking for different kinds of objects with different kinds of materials :slight_smile:

As mentioned, I am quite new to both 3D and Blender. I shared this setup because people were asking me how I rendered the images displayed in my first post.

Oooh! :eek: