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    SHOT LIGHTING IN RENDERMAN

    Jun 17, 2020 4 minutes

    In this training we’ll use a scene from Pixar co-op short film, Only a Dream, where we’ll learn to use some of the most effective RenderMan shot lighting tools. During this process, we’ll understand how to make meaningful artistic choices in order to tell the best story possible, while digging into some of the more technical aspects of mastering shot lighting in RenderMan for Maya.

    Our main goal as lighting artists is to tell a story, in this case, a coming-of-age thriller. The aesthetic we’re going for is film noir with an analogous blue/green colour palette. In fact, one of the colour inspirations was the Chernabog Demon sequence from Disney’s . In order to achieve

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