Accomplishments
This week we once again made major changes to our shots that required reworking of our existing set up. Once I got the layout from the FX team i lit the shots and prepped for render. I wasn’t able to get all the rendering I wanted to done so I will definitely work on that for next week. The goals for next week are to fix any rendering artifacts and get a deep pass working to help with DOF in our shots.
This week was a big learning experience as far as lighting goes. I started off with a complex light rig with a lot of linking and lots of lights.
This lighting just wasn’t very good, the flowers were flattened and I just wasn’t getting the softness and freshness that I wanted. It’s too heavy and dark, the flowers feel thick.
Billy mentioned in our tech comp class that a lot of the time lighting rigs are just a key and an HDRI so I decided to simplify my set up and work off that.
Instantly I think that this lighting is much much better than the other lighting set up. The subsurface is much cleaner and vibrant.
