Sushi Party
This project was a Academy of Animated Arts monthly community lighting challenge involving arranging these character models in a unique situation through lighting. This is a personal favorite of my works simply because I fell in love with the characters and love painting fun scenes such as this with light.
Software: Maya Arnold, Foundry Nuke
Modeled by Alex Mateo
Concept by Jeremy Vickery
Responsible for Lighting and Compositing
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This shot from Disney's animated film Zootopia has a warm bright key and dramatic violet fill due to the sunset time of day in the scene and I wanted to capture that in my lighting. Using this photograph of Paris as a backdrop I wanted to combine these elements together to depict a joyful celebratory scene. The flower pedals were scattered using a simulation in Maya..