Lighting environment

Lighting the environments was the next process. i feel as though at this stage since i don't have much time, i am glad that i did practice before a little on lighting through another unit. You can check out the link to that by following this link.... http://shuhelexperiment3rdyear.blogspot.com/

Once the environments was completed by Kirsty and Trish and all the textures were applied, my aim was to keep things simple. As you can see from the pictures below.........

The first light i have put in is the volume light, this lit up the scene a little.

I put in 3 area lights which would light up the main cubicle office as well as the hallway leading to the vending machine.

I also put in additional lights in the hall so it would light up the characters within the scene. This is because the lights above were not enough to reach out to the characters and plus they were facing against the lights. I put in 3 directional lights to help light up the characters more.

Here are some early render test of my lighting within the scene.

The rendered images above that were lightened were ok but i felt as though i needed to go back and re work on the lights because in some areas the light was too strong and also the overall mood of the scene and the colour palette wasn't right. I consulted Leonard as well as Trish and Kirsty and they all agreed that changes had to be made in order to make it look like what the original concepts were envisioned as. So i went back on decreased the intensity of the lights and i also changed the colour of the lights into blue to give it more of a night mood. When i rendered out these latest images below, i think the team were more happy and plus the characters looked fantastic under the lighting.