Week 1

This week, project 1 was introduced. The goal of this project is to create and control cg lighting to match the real world. We were given the option to take our own photography or use some from the resource library. Below are the 2nd set of photos I took with my lighting integration kit. Excuse my appearance through the chrome ball. I had taken a different set of photos earlier that day and had fully planned to use those. However, when I was turning off the lights to go to bed, I saw this shadow and liked it a lot better than my first set up. I didn't fully understand how to make an HDRI when taking the photos, but took some at the different exposures allowed on the iPhone just in case it would be useful.

I made the HDRI using the different exposures in Photoshop. Then I moved into Maya, set up the scene with the foam ball, and began to match the lighting.