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Published: 2011-09-27 22:15:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 8116; Favourites: 142; Downloads: 0
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Tweaking the lighting here, it's extremely hard to have a scene 'lit up' when it's supposed to be in constant shadow behind the shield
Started modeling the airlock (forward, starboard side near the shield - it has the lights on it) and it is about 90% complete.
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Hi there!
just wanted to inform you that this wonderful image has been featured in my latest journal. Feel free to take a look at:
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thanks
Markus
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Thank you very much Markus!
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It looks fantastic! But the picture is a little too dark for me... Nevermind
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Thanks - well it was dark in the movie
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Ok. I understand
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Excellent job bro! I think is better than your previeous ship.
What you mean by hard to lit up when its in constant shadow? Being behind the shield is like being in the dark so all lights will have their own illumination. The sunlight has no effect on them. Why is the lighting hard.
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Thank you very much! Well - the lighting effect I am trying to get is 'similar' to what they had in the movie... but trying to get some of the same effects within Cinema 4D instead of with postwork... not as easy as one would think... it's a careful blend of cold deep dark space and lighting just enough to see the structure of the ship, but not really more than that. The lighting in the movie was burned in separate passes. I am attempting to get it done in one pass... really that is just part of an exercise for me. I pride myself in the fact that I very very rarely use any postwork effects on my 3D renders. I try to get the desired effect within the program itself. In Vue as well. In some ways, trying to do it that way forces you to learn a bit more about the software
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Care to show an example image? Im not familiar with the movie
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Oh sure! Examples are hard to come by as there is so much darkness in the movie concerning the ship - the IMDB is here: [link]
Ship examples:
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Probably the best reference you will find is in the many copies of MPC's VFX Technical Breakdown about Sunshine:
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Several interviews and the "making" of Sunshine, including an interview with Director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire...)
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I see what you mean. I think in such a situation you need to trade in a lot of light intensity from the ship side of the shield. Bear in mind that the scene needs to be much darker, meaning that you will lose a lot of detail. For instance in one of the examples the ship side has visibly zero details. Only the lights are visible and a silhouette from the ship.
Environment lighting should almost be zerod out. Did you use GI? You might want to consider turning it off or make disk twice as bigger or even bigger than the shield and hide from camera but it will still calculate in the scene, contributing to the darkness behind the shield.
The light from the other side needs an overblown effect you also might want to consider disabling linear workflow to achieve the overblown effect. Just some ideas
Doing good mate. Make a beauty out of it. Already is tho.
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Thanks - nope, no GI, I rarely ever use GI in a space render due to no atmospheric gases to scatter the light like it does down here
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You really do some excellent work that is high quality. Nice Job
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Thank you extremely much for that!
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What can I say. I'm a fan of your work lol
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