Assignment 07 - A Complete Production Scene

RenderMan Challenge: Everything and the Kitchen Sink

The goal of this assignment is to complete an art-directed, detailed scene with production-quality aesthetics. Read the link, and then complete the following:

Objectives:

• Gather reference images from a film chosen for strong cinematography or of a painting chosen for use of tonal value, color, and indication of lighting to plan your work.
• Break down the scene into assets and use Shotgun to plan your surfacing and lighting on a given schedule based on these assets.
• Complete a pastel or digital painting “color key” of the primary kitchen image that you plan to create that indicates your chosen color palette, lighting choices, and tonal values. As needed, optionally generate reference images for each main asset.
• Shade, light, and render your image to create a high quality primary render. A goal should be to show your color-key next to your final render on your portfolio.
• Render some simple cinematic camera movements through your scene.
• You may use Mari, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, or other tools as desired with the final goal of using RenderMan 21 for your renderer.
• Extensions: Investigate and apply Substance Designer in some key asset in your workflow.
• Submit by Wednesday, April 12 and present your finished work for critique that day in class.