Recreate the Hallway Scene from Inception – Part 2 of 2

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Discover how to light and composite the hallway scene from Inception.

Length:
35 minutes
Software:
Blender 2.56
Difficulty:
Intermediate
Rate:
VN:F [1.9.17_1161]
Rating: 5.0/5 (23 votes cast)

In this tutorial you will discover how to:

  • Use indirect lighting
  • Use soft reflections to increase realism
  • Apply DOF and color grading using the compositor

Last week we completed the modelling for the hallway scene and in this final tutorial we will be applying materials, compositing and most importantly: lighting. If you’re one of the many people that struggles to get decent lighting, then this tutorial is for you :)

Finished Result

Before watching you may wish to download these tutorial files:

At a Glance

Screenshots from the video:

Watch Part 1 here

I hope you enjoyed this two part series!

Download finished .blend Recreate the Hallway Scene from Inception – Part 2 of 2, 5.0 out of 5 based on 23 ratings

About Andrew Price

User of Blender for 9+ years. I've written tutorials for 3d World Magazine and spoken at three Blender conferences. My goal is to help artists get employed in the industry by making training accessible and easy to understand. I'm an Aussie and I live in South Korea ;)
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  • http://www.facebook.com/goto.boughanem Goto Boughanem

    tutorial files problem :
    Error 404 – Page not found!

  • http://colesuniverse.webs.com Cole

    Andrew your the man

  • Teja

    Hii,

    I have followed your tutorial and made my first 3D interior . Here is the link
    https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=2921283226794&set=a.2033402270325.2104769.1102215018&type=1&theater

    Great tutorials btw :)

  • erik

    Hi guys,how do we render just a segment of the screen?

  • Luky

    min 11.03 how to do it? thanks.

    • http://pedrozs.zzl.org Pedro

      Shift + B

      • Anonymous

        Thanks, that was very helpful! Saves a lot of time to be able to test-render only a small part of the final render!

  • Benjamin

    Andrew, not sure if you heard this quick tip yet. When selecting a separated group of vertices within a mesh you just need to hit the L button with the cursor hovering over a vertex. No need to select the vertex of the group. No need to hit control L.

  • http://nickemans.deviantart.com Nickemans

    Hey Andrew!

    I’ve followed your tutorial and have used it righhht here, sneakily put in the background ;)

    http://nickemans.deviantart.com/art/Peeping-Back-FrankenBrother-201430184

    I’ve tried to apply for the Focused Critique with this image also, but unfortunately I can’t get the form to work… So if you don’t mind, consider this my application!

    Thanks for your great work!

  • http://www.youtube.com/onjofilms Joel Godin

    Okay, got the Blend texture figured out how to correct it if it is off for you.
    Go to Texture > Mapping and change the X, Y, Z until if maps correctly.
    Thanks to Sebastian K and dmancrosse at Blender Artists.

  • http://www.youtube.com/onjofilms Joel Godin

    @Ian, I also could not get the texture to work on the lamps. Even if I used just two colors, it would show up as one. If I flipped the ramp, it would show up as the other. Aggravating not to be able to get this.
    Andy advice would be appreciated.

  • Jon

    Never mind, I messed with the coordinate references (changed ‘Y’ to ‘Z) and it suddenly worked.

  • Jon

    Good tutorial, but for the life of me I couldn’t get the color ramp on the shades to map correctly using generated coordinates, I’d end up with two lamps showing the shading and the rest not. I ended up UV unwrapping the shades and then it worked fine.

  • Oli

    Great tutoria! :D
    here is my finished model:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/60045802@N06/5482660744/
    Please give feedback :D

  • http://SGS.JM-Technologies.com Jared

    Hi
    I was wondering what add-on you used to use that showed your keystrokes on the corner of the screen. What add-on is this?

  • Thomas

    Sorry for DP!
    But I forgot to mention, that you have to apply the array-modifiers of the plane before rendering.

    Also I provided the link to my german version, here is the one to the english version:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD1i0AT1CiA

  • Thomas

    Hello Andrew,

    you often complain about that it is not possible to have an array for a lamp object.
    It’s easy to do:
    Just parent a lamp to a simple plane an place the lamp directly in the center of that plane. Then go to the object proberties of that plane and in the Duplication panel just hit Faces. That will replace all faces of the object with instances of the child object(s) which is here the lamp. So now the object is still a plane, which you can add to any modifier you like, but it will render as a lamp!
    I made a little Youtube-Quicktip-Video on this, you will find here:
    http://www.youtube.com/user/Baerenpapa007?feature=mhum

    I hope that helps for further projects

  • https://fabiovalinhos.wordpress.com/ Fábio Valinhos

    Perfect again Andrew.
    Great job.

    73 55

  • Pawel

    I’ve just watched the movie so I’ve started to watch the tutorial, which I’m sure will be great, as most of your tutorials are. By the way, it’s VERTEX not vertece!

  • blendery

    very good My friend :)

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