/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3519039
you can't separate light from rendering, you render planes because there is a source of light, however faint it may be, it gives information to the form.

Imagine looking at the moon from within the space, but there is no sun in the vicinity to emanate light. All you would see is absolute pitch black. Turn on the sun, and suddenly the moon would get a clear rendered shape, with a lit side, and one side in pure black (the light from the sun can't bounce back to illuminate the back side of the moon, since there is nothing behind it, the light rays would just travel far into the depths of space until they become too faint).