sh0260_DTH_raiseSphere - Lighting

[Michael Cawood - Director]

If this is your first lighting assignment please review the Lighting and Rendering Handbook for guidance.

I've gone through the first few steps of the lighting Handbook and the lighter only needs to start from step 3.

Although the script will do a lot of the work for you, this shot will require some changes to what goes in each layer. The Sphere generally renders better in the same layer as the clouds and sky which means anything behind it has to also be included.

The Bubble effect hasn't been implemented yet. Iskander has it on his to do list and he'll work with you to give you the rendered layers. You can work without it, and it can simply be added in the composite if necessary.

When the camera moves down through the clouds try to render as many frames as you can before you start to see problems. One of the pipes ends at 542 but if you're able to cover it with dense cloud you might be able to get to frame 560 or 561. We have individual cloud assets that can me imported here:

C:\Devils_Angels_Dating\My Dropbox\assets\Clouds\Little_Cloud.ma

Your files are here:

C:\Devils_Angels_Dating\My Dropbox\030_Lighting\sh0260_DTH_raiseSphere

 

The shot:

[Michael Cawood - Director]

At the start of this shot Cupid has no masking from the chair, his pupils disappear for half the shot and there's not shadow on the chair from him, so I'm going to re-render a few things.

[Michael Cawood - Director]

There are gravestones that pop in and out of existence in the background image sequence. Can you upload your version of the background image sequence?

[Michael Cawood - Director]

I've done a pretty good starter pulse effect for the end of this shot, but I'm still missing the background with the gravestones fix and the Peeps. I'd appreciate the Chair frames too, although at this point I've set off the render farm to re-render those anyway with masking and shadows. Anyway, it's all waiting on those frames now and all I can do is move onto another Earth shot while I wait.

[Eric Acosta]

ok, the background frames are uploading now...ill send the chair frames next

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Excellent, thanks Eric. Which shot are you working on next?

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Can you upload your latest lighting files for sh0260. The re-rendering I did doesn't match your renders so i'm guessing you have newer versions.

[Eric Acosta]

hey mike, so i uploaded my latest for sh0260 lighting... sorry, i havent been paying attention to this after i saw that "Devils is Online!" email. let me know if there is anything else you need from me whenever.. dont be afraid to shoot me a text message on the cell phones either.... im still polishing my sh0285 now for my reel and working on my reel after that. id also be happy to write somthing for your ebook as well, just give me a heads up. mabe we can have lunch somtime next week to comemorate the rap!

[Michael Cawood - Director]

Absolutely. I'm a bit busy this week following through with all things Devils, but after that we really aught to hang out. There's a few weeks to go until we find out if we're doing the eBook. We'll see if the target goal is met. If not i may just do it as a hobby on the back-burner for later on.

[Eric Acosta]

sounds good.... hit me up when your time frees up..... the final cut looks good.. cheers, twas fun..good luck and god speed....