February 2017 - WIP - Carbon Freezing Chamber Environment
One of the most iconic scenes of film history, the duel between Vader and Luke Skywalker in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, began in Cloud City's carbon freezing chamber. Visually striking, I challenged myself to model it.
Using CV Curves and Standard Primitives, I was able to successfuly emulate the floor and staircase in which Luke and Vader duel on. This project has been sitting "on the shelf" for a while, which is evident in the lack of detail in the renders.
However, this proved to be a very important lighting exercise for me as I had to assign light shaders to models, and control the intensity of the light emitting.
Wide shot preliminary render. No textures have been rendered, only lights have been assigned to meshes.
Lighting test render of Staircase.
Lighting render of circular panel.
Cancelled test-render of light. This was done so I can see how intense my lighting was.
Light test render of standard primitive.
Vector graphic created to subtract panel detail on floor.
Vector graphic created to subtract panel detail.
On-set reference Image.