Lee Greatorex Photo/3D blog

Scene/model taken from the 3drender.com lighting challenges.
This is still a WIP - caustics not yet done and could do with a few more lights.

Here's a view of the rig so far, 1 directional light and using Final Gather with some image based lighting, also using the white planes (primary visibility and emit/receive shadows off) to add a little more to the reflections/ lighting (appearing more like studio work).


I also had a play with some Lens/output shaders and gave the mia_exposure_photographic shader a go with these settings;

These were from the Lighting and Rendering with Mental Ray course I went on last year. The course ran by Jeremy Birn (Lighting Artist, Pixar) was great for further study in to lighting/rendering with 3d packages (Maya used for these). I'm continuing studies in lighting by doing the 3D Lighting Challenges found here




I'd recommend the course for anyone interested in Lighting or Rendering, the basic techniques can be used in any package really and it teaches how to use lights well and more importantly efficiently (getting good results without necessarily the need for advanced rendering options like Global Illumination).

Just a couple of shots from my Lisbon trip - working on all for prints currently. All shot with 50mm Panoramas patched together in PS.


The Panorama below is much larger currently looking at a few panorama viewers to enable a larger view for people

Panorama of Lisbon 1 on CleVR.com

Some shots of the protected Wildlife at a local conservation park.

Further studies in particle work (Maya)



playblasts and render tests can be found here http://www.youtube.com/user/scutteh