TD Assignment 1: Advanced Lighting

Cse459 Preproduction for Digital Animation

Assignment Introduction

The scene you light for this week will be used for next week's assignment, so make sure you complete this assignment on time! Any incomplete work will be carried over to the next week, giving you less time to work on next week's assignment.

Texturing

Use stock photos to texture all the objects in the scene:

• Ground
• Main Tree
• Background Trees
• Ferns
• Ground Mushrooms
• Tree Fungus
• Shrub

You can find all the photo reference you need from \\preproduction\production\REFERENCE\

Lighting

Light the scene based on the example file provided using the following lights and techniques:

• Light Fog
• Gobos
• Environment Fog

Apply the lighting concepts gone over in class.

Tutorial

Christine's Advanced Lighting Tutorial

Download

Lighting file for lighting assignment

Tips

• START EARLY!
• Don't be afraid to manipulate UVs to make the texture fit your model better.
• Get in the habit of isolating lights when rendering to see how exactly a specific light is affecting the scene.
• Changing the light color drastically can also help you see what a specific light is doing in the scene.
• Fog takes a long time to render so you might want to work on that last.
• Be sure to save early and often.

Turn-in

• Maya file .ma or .mb for your completed Environment Scene.
• All texture files in 1024 by 1024 .tga, except for the ground texture which will be 2048 by 2048. Do not turn in any .psd or any other file type.
• A rendered image of your final scene at frame 60 using the render_cam. Do not turn in a render from the persp or any other camera!

Grading Criteria

• Completed work.
• Clean, non-smeared textures.
• Minimal UV stretching.
• Textures that make sense ( We don't want to see any metal trees! )
• Lighting that resembles the reference image.
• Usage of new lighting techniques ( Light Fog, Environment Fog, etc.)
• Knowledgable usage of good lighting practices ( Key, Fill, Rim, Bounce, etc. )
• All turn-in requirements met.