Art Studio

Art Studio, 2012

Art Studio is a 3D Render of a scene that I rendered out of Autodesk Maya; for which I created the lighting for as well as all the materials and textures for the assets, using Adobe Photoshop. The scene is one of many that are available from Jeremy Birn - 3dRender.com.

Art Studio Process

On the right I have included a few renders that I have put together as a little bit of a breakdown of the process that I went through. The different light changes that I made trying to achieve the result that I desired. As you can see there is a major difference going through the first render all the way through to the twelve renders to get the final beauty shot.


You can see the different renders of how I went through the unwrapping of the UV's in order to get the texturing done using Adobe Photoshop as well as the different materials that I have created via the Hypershade in Autodesk Maya.

Within the final render shown above; the composition is made out of two render passes. These two render passes is included below.

AO Ambient Occlusion Pass

Beauty Render

The Beauty Render is the image that have been rendered straight out of Autodesk Maya before any other render passes has been composed together. The Beauty pass is sometimes also know as the diffuse or color pass which includes all your color maps as well as your diffuse lighting.


The image below on the right, is a top view diagram of the Art Studio that I have created to demonstrate the different lights that I have used within the scene to achieve the lighting within in the final render as show above. This diagram shows the location of where I have placed these different lights as well as showing the direction of which the the light is shining in.

As you can see on the diagram I have used three different lights in this scene. These three lights are shown inn three different colors; blue, green and red.

Lighting diagram

The light shown in blue is the direction light that I have used, which is also used as the key light. This light acts as my sun light coming into the room through the upper large window across from the art easels. The angle in which the directional light is placed is creating a late afternoon lighting.





This has been my one of my first attempts at creating digital lighting. I know now after exploring more into digital lighting as well as gaining more knowledge, that there are still quite a few flaws in the render such as photons bouncing around the room and being visible, but I think it turned out to be a great render and a beautiful image.