Practicing with Lighting in Maya Session 5

Session Notes

After studying Caravaggio's "Still" artwork and his usage of natural lighting I use his work a a guide in order to improve the composition and aesthetic of my own crystal scenes.

In oirder to create similar rays of luight I create da psotlight to emluate the illusoin f a windfow or beam of natueal hitting the stone all in the scene. (figure a)

Figure A



Furthermore, just how the ruby sword scene began to improve onece textures were introcued I decidded to create a simple stone texture that I foudn from a free texture website for the time bing and changed the colour to create a sand stone temple wall. (figure b)

Figure B
Contiing from this scene the following day I proceeded to push my lighting cpabilites further by looking though maya rendegn settings and disocvered useful tools that created more dynamic lights and shadows in my rendered scesn.

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Referances
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKmJt3VzrtA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pa79DwclPo

By Sebastian Jones

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