(Click for full size) Here is Simon. No fancy shaders were used. I simply loaded him from the library and I made only one small change to the skin. By default he has no specular settings turned on. I used Specular_Color=WHITE, Specular_Value = .3, and Highlight_Size = .1. Of course with a more interesting shader the results would be better, but this is good for a basic demo.

The light is a single infinite light from the upper right with ray-traced shadows. The light color is RGB 153,153,255. The light intensity is 50%.

I'm showing two renders - on the left without the lens, on the right with the lens. The lens setup is that on page 1, with the HSV Saturation at 2.0 and the gamma correction factor also at 2.0.

The un-corrected image on the left is extremely dark (at least on my monitor). It should look like that. If the figure is well lit without the lens, you are using way too much light.

This render with a single light is so we can see the contribution of lighting from the blue light. Next I'll add a small amount of IBL for ambient lighting.

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