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Day 2Tuesday • December 2, 2025

Glowing Candle

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Challenge Prompt

Create a photorealistic candle with a warm, glowing flame that casts light in a dark environment. Capture the cozy, peaceful feeling of candlelight.

Challenge Description

Model a simple candle with a glowing flame. Focus on lighting techniques, emission materials, and creating atmosphere with volumetrics. Hashtags #Day2 #Candle #Lighting #Emission #Cozy

Instructions

Model the candle body (cylinder with slight taper) 1. Add melted wax drips using proportional editing 2. Create the flame using a simple mesh with emission 3. Add a point light at the flame position 4. Enable volumetrics in World settings (density ~0.01) 5. Use warm colors (orange/yellow) for flame emission

Requirements

  • •Candle body with melted wax details
  • •Realistic flame with emission shader
  • •Volumetric lighting for glow effect
  • •Dark/moody environment
  • •Visible light falloff

Tips

  • 💡Real flames are never perfectly still - consider a subtle animated displacement
  • 💡Use strength values of 10-20 for emission shader
  • 💡Add slight subsurface scattering to wax for realism
  • 💡Keep the environment very dark to emphasize the glow

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