Generalist/Lighting Demo Reel | 2023

This personal project I worked on was inspired by Bladerunner 2049. I am responsible for everything except the spinner model.

I Modeled and textured buildings and scattered them using geometry nodes. I retextured the vehicle and animated it along a curve. 

I did the lighting for the vehicle and the city which was challenging because I was trying to match the movie reference which had a lot of atmosphere and was very dark. I had a fog volume surrounding the city and car to get the atmosphere from the reference and get the lights scattering through the air. I had area lights at the bottom of the city facing upwards so the city felt like it had a sense of life. 

I wanted to make it clear that these buildings were very large and that the lights don't reach everywhere and I think the subtle from the bottom of the city helped with that+. In addition, having a ton of small lights in the building textures helped a lot with selling the scale, along with the spotlights on the buildings and the neon signs.

I rendered the vehicle and the background separately so that I could light them properly, and so their lights didn't interfere with each other. They were brought back together in compositing where I did the color grading, effects, and tweaked some of the passes.

This was rendered and composited in Blender

This is a personal project of mine where I tried to create a car commercial for the Porsche 911. 

I retextured the car paint, tires, and brake disks. The main focus of this project was getting the lighting to look cinematic and make it look like it was from a commercial.

I used some reference images that were studio shots of the car, so I could see how they light cars in studio environments. I took what I learned from that and tried to light the car in a way that best showed off its lines and curves. Since each shot was at a different angle I had to use unique lighting setups for each shot to get attractive lighting on the car. Rendered and Compositing in Blender

A challenge with this project was having the lights from the car not interact too much with the ground because it didn't look good, so I rendered the car and ground separately with different lighting setups. 

This was rendered in Blender and composited in Davinci Resolve

The model is from Sketchfab: https://skfb.ly/6WZyV

This was a project for class and I was tasked with creating a 1 min short of different environments that are familiar sights in the Midwest.

I worked on this project on my own, so I got most of the assets and textures online. The main things I modeled were the windmills, the city, and some of the power lines. I put together each scene, made a composition that was appealing, and did the look dev of each scene so it matched the lighting in the reference images. 

I used lighting to make the scenes feel moody and nostalgic while still following the references I had. Which were very dark and most objects were in silhouettes, so I tried my best to replicate that with very subtle lighting in my renders.

This project I did to practice my character lighting, specifically Rembrandt lighting.

I had a directional light coming from the left as the key light, an HDRI and area light on the left as the fill, and rim lights behind the cat's left side. I also had extra lights around the cat to make its shape a little more defined. 

I am only responsible for the lighting and compositing. The scene was from the Blender website by Manu Jarvinen

I worked on this project in Maya after seeing a reference image I liked and wanted to recreate the asset with a field of dry grass. 

I did the modeling and texturing of the tree 

As for the lighting, I wanted to go for warm daytime lighting and I tried to keep the light direction the same as the reference. 

I used an HDRI, directional light, and a few area lights surrounding the tree to make it stand out more and also had light blockers along the grass so the light wasn't uniform and had variation.