Help on Lighting Jungle-esque scene.

[kanooshka]

One of my most recent pieces dealt with a little jungle in it. I used images from the movie Madagascar as influence. I'd also suggest looking at images from the game Crysis.

A big thing to make things feel humid is using a depth effect. If you take a depth pass then in Photoshop or your compositing package apply the depth pass to the color you choose, in this case you want a heavy brown/green look, you should achieve a humid look.

[Warofwar]

Thanks for the reply. I haven't used the render depth pass before, is that in the render layers>attributes?

And you mean to use Photoshop to take over the final touches like overlaying the green/brown color? Like I said, I'm a beginner in lighting, so please correct me. :)

[kanooshka]

I'm not sure what version of maya you are using but I do know that if you create a render layer and then right click on the render layer one of the presets is depth pass. There's a good tutorial here:

http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2007/12/11/depth-of-field-pass-for-maya-or-mentalray/

[Warofwar]

Gotcha, I'm gonna try some things and come back if I have questions. You've been a great help man.

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