Jimmy

Frequent readers may recall I posted a video last spring of the little character I’d modeled in 3D for my 3D Animation II: Character Design class. This semester we students are using the same characters we made last semester and building little environments for them. First up to learn about is lighting, and we’ve spent the last 3.5 weeks on that so far. We’re trying out all kinds of different types of lighting on our characters, and I’ve rendered still frames of some of my favorite lighting environments so far. Read on…

First up is: setting/late evening sun

(Click on any image for larger version.)

And the obvious follow-up to that is: dusk

I can’t remember what we were actually doing here and I’d done something wonky with the texture/color of the floor of the room (made it bright blue and reflective) so it came out differently from what the prof was expecting/wanting/demoing, but I liked the result, which I’m calling: ice palace

Again I can’t for the life of me remember what my prof called this, but at least it came out the way he was expecting this time. For lack of any better name, I’m calling it beaming fire

I’ve really enjoyed looking at lighting so far (despite what I’ve said to my family on the occurrence of not being able to simply take a walk at night anymore without noticing all the different colors of lights) and hope you, fair reader, have enjoyed seeing some of my favorite lighting scenes as well. We’re also working on building whole environments for our characters (I’m modeling a circus tent) and I’ll try to post pictures of that sometime, as well.

Cheers for now,
-j

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