FOX59 Wants to Know ...

I have been working on a new animation for FOX59 - which is FOX59 Wants to Know.

So far I am 3 days and about 32 hours into this. The 'set' is pure 3D, but the monitor contents and logo were added in post. I am planning on making the animation modifiable in After Effects so that the contents of the monitors and the logo can be changed on the fly by an artist. That'll go a long way towards making quick opens for news!

52nd Street Bar

A new CGTalk Lighting Challenge was released recently - so I've decided to give it a go :)



I like where it is starting. The light motivation and color is feeling good but I think I have a lot of tweaking of intensity to do.

Right now this shot has about 6 lights in it and no Global Illumination. I'm really going to play up the accented warm light on the exterior objects as I've started to do on the barrels to the right ... I think that will be key in this shot.

I also want to update quite a bit of the modeling. It would be great to add some more architectural details.

The biggest thing I need to work on is probably the lighting on the ground (snow) outside of the building. It feels very ... confusing.

More soon!