Optimize interior Renderings in Blender Cycles

00:00 - introduction to the challenge of interior noise
01:28 - RENDER RESULT 1 - Starting Point
01:37 - The wrong way to add more light to a scene
02:06 - RENDER RESULT 2 - Too many lights
02:30 - Adding a light portal
02:50 - RENDER RESULT 3 - Light Portal
03:00 - Getting more light in the scene (the right way)
03:32 - Node setup for glass light pass-through
04:20 - RENDER RESULT 4 - No Glass Shadow
04:38 - Node setup for curtain light pass-through
05:23 - RENDER RESULT 5 - No Curtain Shadow
05:35 - Flexible denoising setup (cryptomatte)
08:03 - RENDER RESULT 6 - DeNoised
08:12 - Overview of some helpful parameters
10:04 - Render comparison
10:20 - FINAL RENDER RESULT - Closing comments

ABOUT ME
I've been using Blender for over half my life! That's since 2008. My first freelance work with the software was around that time as well. I did some animations for a waiting room in my local dental office. Since then, I've been hooked earning a living providing 3D services for businesses across the world. I've had the chance to do work for some big organizations like NASA and Microsoft. The real pride in my work though, has come from helping and being involved with small, independent productions. These indie productions and creators embody what it is to me, to be an artist.

I'm very proud of it! I ought to be with how much time I've put into it. 😅 It's the catch all site to access everything I create. Supporting me there is as simple as contributing the cost of one coffee per month. Doing so gets you access to all training material I've ever created. For a slightly higher support tier, you get access to my ENTIRE model and texture library! Higher still, and you'll receive recognition in all of my video and site footer credits.

Some people ask why I don't have a Patreon. This site is all about creating custom and exclusive offerings for artists. Your monthly contribution is no joke. In fact, it's my complete livelihood at this point! I don't think it's responsible for me to give away a cut of your money to third party organizations like Patreon, so it stays with me, and goes directly towards producing more content and resources.

[TonyTheYouTuba]

This is superb. Clear dialogue and tight editing. You were able to give real practical tips and also emphasise that there’s no one size fits all “solution”, giving the knowledge for people to find what works for their situation. Top stuff!

[valit]

This is the holy grail of tutorials. From the music to the voice to the info. Thank you.

[Erindale]

Great video! A lot of people get hung up on render speeds but learning to get images out fast makes such a huge difference to your productivity and ability to review your work

[JosephHenryDrawing]

This is what every lighting artist should do! Optimizing scenes and understand roughly how ray tracing works is a super valuable skill. Good job on explaining that!

[daveSoupy]

This might be the greatest interior lighting tutorial ive ever seen.

[EdgeofTimeProductions]

This tutorial is amazing, I knew of a lot of these things like light paths and cryptomatte but I never learned exactly how to use them. Very easy to follow along as well, thanks for sharing.

[kontrastwesen]

What a greatly conducted tutorial! ♥ So much value put in there and a really pleasant viewing and listening experience, thanks for that!

[holbrooklyn]

Excellent video! So appreciate your clear direction and slowly and simply explaining what you're doing, why you're doing it, and what the thing does. Really excited to see what videos you make next!

[AyberkKole]

Great tutorial! That denoising approach is super useful, thank you.

[mertcanurcan]

Oh great explanation, that material and portal info is neat and clean. My mind was blown at matte denoise idea. Thank you!

[jekabsj]

This was awesome, super precise directions, easy to follow

[NeerajLagwankar]

It was amazing how you explained the light path node in a simple yet informative manner. Thanks!

[urbantiles]

Extremely helpful, concise and well structured. Hats off.

[amrtahtawi]

Lovely tutorial and very thoughtful use of the compositor power! Thank you for this detailed oriented process! I feels good after watching your video ☺️

[alumaennchen]

I just watched all your videos from the channel today. Your tutorials are amazing, really well thought through and so calm. I have not seen such good tutorials since I started with blender years ago. Congrats and thank you for sharing it with us!

[filipstanciucu]

This tutorial is complete! great narative, crisp explanations, radio voice...perfect!

[nicklavind]

What a great little concise video about interior lighting - covered lots and very easy to follow/understand 👍

[valuableminutes]

Informative, with calm music and good pauses to take notes (I pause it, primarily). Thank you!

[xDaShaanx]

Not many people realise that Lighting and optimization is very hard. Every thing else we can learn from tutorials way faster than lighting and composition.
This tutorial is a beast. No other youtube talked about lighting and render optimization with this much depth. Thanks for sharing all that knowledge. :)

[MaxSonicUA]

Like always - another EPIC tutorial. Thank you!