Tips on Lighting

1. Place the lights as much near as possible t the character so you can avoid unnecessary lengthy shadows.
   
2. Eye is an important part of characters so make sure eyes are always brightened enough.
   
3. Always take rim light as a seperate pass so its easier to make a sepration of character fro BG.
4. Use maxium spotlights as possible because point lights are expensive for rendering.
   
5. Avoid the idea of negative lighting.
   
6. Use decay for realistic falloff.
   
7. Use large filter when the shadow resolution is small.
   
8. Nerver keep any part of the seen pure black dark make sure some information is present throughout the frame.
   
9. Make sure the action Happens in the brightest part of the Scene