Project Four - Final Portfolio Piece

The student will work on a project of his/her choice, one that utilizes the lighting techniques from the previous projects. My proposal is to build an entirely CG environment of an abandoned factory floor with a "dead" robot. Every CG model will be built from scratch based on a design that I have done previously on my own time.

See concept drawing of robot, click here. Modeling of the robot was done in 2 weeks while texturing was finished within a week of the project. I used the next 2 weeks before the project due to light, render, and composite the layers in Shake. The rendered layers are: Beauty Pass, Shadow, Occlusion, Specular, and a Matte layer.

Here's the final render after color correction in Shake.

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Matte Layer
One thing I did different for this project was I rendered a Matte layer that acts as a mask layer used in Shake to change specific areas on the final beauty pass without affecting the other portions of the render. This is specifically useful when the scene gets complicated.



Final render on video:

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