Be There: Animation (Lighting)
I'm currently helping with a master's thesis project called "Be There" which is an animated short. Rachel Britton is the director and main animator of the project. For this project, I am helping to do shot lighting on the characters in certain scenes, render them out, then bring them into Nuke for final touch-ups. Because the film is still in progress, I cannot publicly post it on my website yet.
Bedroom Walking Shot
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Bed Shot
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After setting up the shot lighting in Maya, I rendered it at a high resolution and brought it into Nuke. In Nuke I began color-matching the scene to the color script that was made by another artist on the project. Additionally, I needed to do some roto painting in certain areas.
Mom Theater Shot - WIP
In this shot, Allie Sargent gave me the renders for the crowds that were made in Houdini. But after some consideration, the people in the front were decided to be animated and rendered in Maya. Rachel animated the six characters in the front and I rendered them in Maya.