End of week assignment - Lighting & Render 03

This week our assignment was to light the vehicle, and then do render passes we will be using in next weeks assignment.

My timetable for the week was planned like this:

Monday 14-16: Find a nice background to base the lighting off of, and place the vehicle accordingly.
Tuesday 14-17: Keep playing around with different placements and see what works best and decide!
Wednesday 14-19: Place the lighting in the scene and make it fit according to the background image and make it look nice on the model.
Thursday 14-20: Start doing render passes and work on getting them to look nice.

Drawing

This week we also drew a fair bit, and we focused a lot on shapes and different techniques again.

Idea Development

For this assignment I wanted to show my vehicle off as it is flying through the air and decided on a sky background. I looked around for reference images, and as expected there aren't many pictures of flying row-boats with cannons mounted on the front! I then widened my search to planes in the sky, and found two nice pictures.

 

 Personally I liked the top one the most and decided to go with something similar for my render. I Googled and found a picture with similar clouds and sun placement, and placed my vehicle accordingly. I didn't like the look of it, but along with David (my teacher), we found it might look really cool with it looking like it was doing a turn and slanting a bit through the air. I drew up a concept on how I thought it would look like, and then moved the balloon to match the image, and I think it looked pretty cool so I went with it!

 

Final Render

Rendertime 1:20