New features in the latest version of 9b Studios’ toolkit for creating lighting setups for high-quality rendering include:
- Intuitive automatic light-targeting process
- Lightboard Controller — a centralized control for all SLIK lights including mute, solo, relink, intensity, color, global intensity
- 34 new 4K light textures
- Studio Save feature
- HDR Bake feature
- SLIK HDR Studio Swap – swaps from HDR to full studio lights to allow tweaking
- In-camera control system for SLIK 2 lights
- Automatic render pass with re-coloring
- Automatic composition script using Photoshop CC 2015 or After Effects CC 2015
- Single-click preference system
- Updated lights and presets
- New smart material library
- Material Override for quick lighting tests
- Physical Sun preset system
- Custom Preset Save feature
- Ability to remove tripod/secondary meshes from view
- Performance-optimized SLIK 2 assemblies and options
The SLIK 2 kit includes 15 base assembly presets, 20 lighting setups (covering small-scale, medium-scale, large-scale and portrait studio photography), 20 x 2K HDR environment maps, 34 x 4K lighting textures, 12 material presets, instructional videos and a manual. It is priced at $149, with upgrades costing $119. Modo 901 and above are required. More on The Foundry’s website.
