# 3D Lighting

Skill · 3D, Animation and Game Development

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/3d-lighting

The technique of placing and adjusting virtual light sources within a 3D scene to establish mood, depth, and realism, commonly performed in software like Maya, Blender, or Unreal Engine using tools such as global illumination and ray tracing. Lighting artists in film and games use it to guide the viewer's eye and match a project's visual tone.

Related skills: [Blender](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/blender), [Unreal Engine](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/unreal-engine), [3D Rendering](https://career.thegoodapps.co/skills/3d-rendering)

## Open roles requiring 3D Lighting (0)

None of the roles we have read name this skill yet. A large share of the visible corpus has not been parsed for skills, so this is at least as likely to be our backlog as the market's verdict.