Fantasy Oak Lighting Study

“Fantasy Oak - Lighting Study” was originally designed and modeled by the artist Sarah Tarr. After a process of self discovery I realized that I want to specialize as much as possible in everything related to Color inside a 3D content production pipeline. After doing mostly texturing and surfacing work, lighting and compositing were the two next areas for me to tackle and have fun with. I decided to grab the Fantasy Tree asset from the Lighting Assets Library of the Academy of Animated Art to create my first lighting-focused CG project. I also had to do some slight surfacing to better enhance the asset/lighting for each mood/time of day.

For this environment I thought it would be cool to do various lighting scenarios to change the mood and feel of each one of them. So far I’ve come up with two versions, a sunny day and an overcast and misty forest.

I also included some short breakdowns of the lighting/comp I did for each.