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My 4k render. Like my mother told me,

 You build your first house the way you think you want it, learn from the mistakes; sell it and build another one. 

I learned so much about lighting, texturing and rendering with this project.  It took forever, but I now I can move onward to other projects. This is my first real big environment that I composted with render passes. I also used photons, final gather rays, god rays, mia material, and a render farm. The render farm was awesome, and I got to learn Thinkbox Deadline, as well as help other students and productions manage the farm. (I got to be the school’s render wrangler.). I would like to change a few things with this render. However, its time to move on to the next project, I spent enough time on this one. All well worth it. 

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Created using.

Autodesk Maya 2015

Adobe Photoshop

Autodesk Mudbox

Thinkbox Deadline

Mental Ray

Substance Designer (only the floor)

Quixel Suite: (mostly nDO)

Blackmagic Designs: Fusion 7

Course: Texture and Lighting Model Provided without textures

Software used: Autodesk Maya/Mudbox

Christina Backlund Newton http://tinanewtonart.com

Lighting and Texturing Class. W.I.P

Overarching Project- Working on lighting setups. Current stage- Troubleshooting

Working on my semester long project- build a scene (which all these models are 3D party sourced from turbosquid (free ones) and 3Drender Challenge... no time in this course to build your own.)

I like the way the light looks in the black and white, the way the windows silhouettes are farther apart, whereas the two in sepia has better render quality. I am having issues with God Rays, and the Transmat/Parti volume box-  graininess and odd color changes to the left wall and ceiling. (the sepia versions are missing a part of the table- forgot to unhide it in these test renders) Anyhow- the scene is a small cramped apartment of a slob (adding more items), where the occupant has left something on the burner that just begun to smolder- hence the reason for god rays (aka "light beams with participating media"). Which will add to the effect of the smoke gathering in the room. 

Eventually, I will be adding smoking effects above the stove as well as textures to reflect the charring from the smoke's carbon...

Another planet Earth I made before the last one…. do you think Africa looks huge!?

©Tina Backlund Newton http://tinanewtonart.com

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I created the world one night out of boredom in Maya. Actually NASA had an animation fellowship earlier this year, and I hope by the time I graduate from school I will be a candidate for it if it opens up again.

©Tina Backlund Newton