19 FREE Pixar HDRI

Mattymanx

Taozen, use the jpeg on a sphere and match its rotation to the environment sphere in the render settings.  Also make sure your primative sphere is not casting shadows.

 

I recommend changing the ground shadow strength from 1.00 to 0.9

Lyoness

thanks

 

Musicplayer

By the Sea

A test render using the 15.02 pm HDRI.

 

nakamuram002

Great HDRIs!!  Thanks Omnifreaker!!

Taoz

Mattymanx said:

Taozen, use the jpeg on a sphere and match its rotation to the environment sphere in the render settings.  Also make sure your primative sphere is not casting shadows.

 

I recommend changing the ground shadow strength from 1.00 to 0.9

Thanks, but that way it's getting just as blurred as when using the Iray dome and that was what I was trying to avoid. Guess the best way is to use a high resolution HDR on the dome.

Ruphuss

nothing special about those HDRIs

or is the hype all about pixar ?

and why this isnt in the freebie section mods ?

Ivy

Here is Mine  - A gull flying over Stinson Beach

Ivy

Musicplayer said:

By the Sea

A test render using the 15.02 pm HDRI.

 

looks awesome

Tobor

These are nice ... thanks.

For those objecting to the blurry image: 2K is a little low to use these as image backdrops, but the *lighting source* is the most important aspect of HDRi, and here the resolution is fine. The sequence of having different times of day is useful when trying to match the quality/flavor of light for a render in a similar time. 

IMO, I think it's better to combine the lighting quality of a good HDRi -- and these are good -- with your own background. That way the render is 100% your image. 

The sun/light source in these is very distinct, producing quite harsh shadowing. The shadowing is realistic though for full sun. I'd probably take these into Photoshop and blur up the sun a little to reduce the contrast from the shadow. 

fastbike1

Actually, that's exactly what a photo would look like. The background might be even more out of focus. The shadows would stay in the plane of focus and would be sharp because the sun acts as a distant point source (furthre, smaller = sharper for shadows).

marble said:

Not sure that the blurred image and the sharp shadows work together. Also, wouldn't we depth of field to produce an area of in-focus detail within the greater out-of-focus field?

Nevertheless, I will download them for lighting if not for the background images.

 

kyoto kid

..not necessarily. If you shoot at an Infinity setting, everything is clear.

jade monkey

Thank you for these!

fastbike1

That's also not necessarily true. Only works if you've focused ti the hyperfocal point and your subject is within that area.

With shot as shown, your subject would be out of focus with an infinity setting. That shot is typical of what you would get for a 70 to perhaps 105 mm lens for a full frame camera, and you wouldn't focus at infinity.

kyoto kid said:

..not necessarily. If you shoot at an Infinity setting, everything is clear.

 

kyoto kid

...using a 25mm wide angle.

Tobor

kyoto kid said:

...using a 25mm wide angle.

There will obviously be some combination of lens settings that would make a defocused background improbable. With a 25mm lens, it'll likely focus from maybe a foot to infinity, even with the iris all the way open. But that doesn't detract from the plausibility of a distant background being out of focus. Our brains accept it regardless, because it's something we see in photographs all the time.

People are fussing about the resolution of these -- 2K is too low to use these HDRis as backgrounds and still get a sharp image. For that, the image really needs to be 4K if not 8K. However, 2K is fine to use these HDRIs as a light source, and that's what matters. The fact that you get a beach background is gravy. HDRis are all about the lighting. You can always just stick in any old image as a backdrop, and you can still use the lighting dynamics of the HDRi.

Mattymanx

Hunters

https://www.daz3d.com/gallery/#images/332566/

kyoto kid

...using a 25mm wide angle.

Tobor said:

kyoto kid said:

...using a 25mm wide angle.

There will obviously be some combination of lens settings that would make a defocused background improbable. With a 25mm lens, it'll likely focus from maybe a foot to infinity, even with the iris all the way open. But that doesn't detract from the plausibility of a distant background being out of focus. Our brains accept it regardless, because it's something we see in photographs all the time.

People are fussing about the resolution of these -- 2K is too low to use these HDRis as backgrounds and still get a sharp image. For that, the image really needs to be 4K if not 8K. However, 2K is fine to use these HDRIs as a light source, and that's what matters. The fact that you get a beach background is gravy. HDRis are all about the lighting. You can always just stick in any old image as a backdrop, and you can still use the lighting dynamics of the HDRi.

..but you have to make sure that the sun elevation and azimuth in teh photo matches that of the HDRI.  That is why having 4K or 8K HDRI is much simpler.

StratDragon

this is great! thanks!