Scene Light

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bensimonds post "Lighting Tips From the Masters"

While this post fits to page Basics Light & Shadow too, you will definitely need it if you jumped here directly, to get an idea of how to light your scene :)

Ambient Occlusion

See the written documentation for Ambient Occlusion on blender.org

Video by Neal Hirsig


Indirect Lighting

Jonathan Williamson created this short video where he uses indirect lighting including some post-processing, published on blendercookie


Another short and simple introduction by Greg Zaal, published on blendernerd, giving a superquick 1.4 minute introduction to indirect lighting.
(You can download the scene there)


And another introduction to Indirect Lighting by Roberto Roch on cgtuts+ , which also includes an introduction to Blender 2.5 ( …published in Dec. 2009…)


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