Lighting Reel / Academy of Animated Art (AAA) Challenge
Lighting Reel Breakdown:
(0:01-0:08) LEGO® Star Wars™ 25-Second Film Contest Submission – All Aspects
(Lego brick models are from Mecabricks)
(0:08-0:16) AAA Lighting Challenge – Lighting, Shader setup, Compositing
(0:16-0:24) Motion Design selects – All Aspects (various models from Quixel Megascans)
(0:24 -0:28) “Ocean Life in 2050” – All Aspects (various models from Quixel Megascans)
(0:28-0:32) Principe – Sequence lighting & shader refinement, AOVs/multipass render setup for Nuke compositing artist (raw renders shown)
(0:32-0:36) Mood Match Exercise – Lighting, Compositing
(0:36-0:43) VFX Set Extensions – Asset Creation, Lighting, Compositing, VFX Supervision
(0:43-0:48) LEGO® Star Wars™ 25-Second Film Contest Submission (same as before)
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Below was my submission for the Academy of Animated Art’s Lighting Challenge #35.
The incredible character animation is by Fabio Pugliese (CG Riff), which served as the blank starting point to light the scene, provided as an alembic file.
You can watch the results of the challenge and critique by Senior Lighting TD Jasmine Katatikarn here. There were two winners chosen and I am lucky to be one of them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXUo8sIVAJ0
Thanks for watching!
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