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Welcome to CommonPoint.

Your go-to when you’re looking for inspiration and knowledge. You’ll find loads of useful content that will help you take the next step in your 3d journey, whether you’re a beginner, an expert, cg artist, or an art director.

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Learn from a vast source of knowledge, that you know you need, but couldn’t find anywhere. Dive deep into lighting, CG techniques, materials, color, design and archviz business. And look at it all from a wider perspective. Whether you want to understand a subject in depth or need a good portion of inspiration. Whether you struggle with a technical issue or artistic one. Find answers to problems that’s been holding you back at CommonPoint. and grow as an artist with us.

Master 3D+AI

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Learn how to work faster, with control, and push the boundaries of creativity.

Combine the best of two worlds to make 3D and AI work hand in hand throughout your entire process. Not just adding AI at the end.

Create insanely customized images on the fly. Do less tedious tasks you hate. And tell basically any story you want.

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Master Exterior Lighting

Paid, Prerecorded Online Training

Buy exclusive content from Exterior Lighting Masterclass like 8 bonus lessons with making-ofs and extra tutorials, education-purposes HDRIs and an entire 3d scene just for you to practice along with us!

Go to our YouTube channelt to watch lessons we shared for free. Learn to execute the most important lighting scenarios you need. Starting from the day, sunset, through the overcast, night to foggy and moody scenarios. It’s all in here.

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Become a Better 3d Artist

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Watch videos tutorials explaining 20-years-worth of 3D knowledge. Including lessons form Exterior Lighting Masteclass available for free for everyone. There are tons of lighting techniques, scenario breakdowns, color and composition concepts, and step-by-step commercial workflows.

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Lesson 01 - Lighting vs. Composition

It feels like drinking from a firehose while becoming a better lighting artist. No wonder! Lighting is a dynamic aspect that ties up everything in your image, so you should know a thing or two about pretty much everything. Let us give you a taste of what’s coming up next, and we'll turn that firehose into an afternoon cup of tea.

Lesson 02 - Day I - Depth Perception, Corona Sun & Sky

What makes an image 3-dimensional? What kind of challenges do you face in the fore, mid, and background? Depth is the easiest 3d concept, but many artists are still unfamiliar with it. Let’s kick off the day scenario series and introduce the native corona renderer system - Corona Sun/Sky.

Lesson 03 - Color Analysis I - Tonal Range

Eyes are our primary tool, and we often forget they need practice, too! This lesson kicks off with the color practice series that unfolds the “where and how to look at images.” We dive deep into the black & white aspect of an image and tell you how to use it to your advantage. There is a way to check ourselves if the colors look natural!

Learn for free with our blog

Taking your first steps in the 3d field? Or are you an expert looking to level up your game? Wherever you are, you’ll find loads of useful free content. Learn, get inspired and have a pleasant read!

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Fresh Angle to Perceiving Color

A well-trained eye can experience color to the full extent. Immediately spot if something works for the image (or not). Though, can anyone become such an artist? Let’s learn how to perceive colors in the 3d rendering process today!

HDRI Lighting Made Easy!

The easiest way to bring life into your scene is by using HDRI lighting. That’s it, seriously. Basic principles are simple, and they translate well to rendering engines. Let’s discuss the illumination process and how to have control using HDRI lighting!

Day to Night Transition

The world looks different at night. Otherwise mundane things can become spectacular, dramatic, or even scary. Now, what if you use all of that nighttime magic in your renderings? Let’s explore it together!

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Just check out what they say about learning with CommonPoint.

"I want to thank you two for the knowledge you pass on, I read the 12 free articles MULTIPLE times, it's probably the best free "tutorials" from the internet, they're easy to read, easy to understand and most of all they are clean and straight to the point "

José

"I've been using Corona with Cinema4d for many many years now, and have been using HDRIs wrong all this time! I always thought Peter's HDRIs were just too hot and burned out my scenes. My solution was to just lower exposure to death. In reading your article, it's like a whole new world of lighting has opened up for me. "

Evan

"Your blog is very useful for me. I read and in writing (with my hand on paper to better remember) I take notes of all your articles and tips, recommendations and links. Each of your articles inspires and gives confidence in your abilities!"

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