Student Work: Week 1-3, "Night Scene"

Modelled by Christophe Desse and Matthew Thain.

Week 2, May 10-14, 2010: 
This week I have created a soft light box beside the truck so that colour and specular highlight will be visible in the night scene. It works like a real life reflector or white card to bounce light onto an object. I have also shifted the composition because earlier the face on the billboard was awkwardly cropped off. The neon lights require more focus here. I have been playing with placing lights and the colour fog of neon. (Top image only)

Week 3, May 15-19: 
This week I have spent a lot of time tweaking lights and deleting unnecessary lights. I have found more reference images on-line to see the way that colour falls off of neon lights. I am trying to match my florescent lighting on the view of florescent lights seen above the Lake theatre in this first photo.

Render layers have also been planned. A proper Beauty Pass is almost complete. At this point I can see how much further I need to go to use render layers properly. Ideally, I should be able to assemble the different aspects of my image, and use effects in After Effects to amp up or turn down the intensity of each layer. I am learning this more intimately now that I am working with a still image that does not have animation. Render time is faster. The final image at the bottom is a test Beauty Pass.