Here is the latest lighting challenge by Jeremy Birn from www.3DRender.com. He has twenty four challenges available to date, #24 is the only active challenge and the deadline is October 16th. I have never been able to line up his active challenges with my curriculum, but I generally assign past challenges anyway. Some of his scenes can be intimidating to take on, because they can be a bit time consuming particularly as a class assignment. If you have independent students who are focusing lighting and rendering, have them try one of his challenges; it will really push them. One nice thing is that most, if not all, file formats are provided, so it doesn’t really matter what software you use. In the past, I have assigned to my advanced class his first challenge, the fruit bowl, and this fall I am assigning the Halloween scene #12 as an independent assignment. Jeremy has been a Technical Director at Pixar Animation Studios since in 2002 and has worked on lighting for The Incredibles, Cars, Ratatouille, and Wall-E. He has also written Digital Lighting & Rendering, which is now in its second edition.
Check out his site and the past challenges and I hope this helps out. -- Cornell
| Challenge #24: The Cabin -- Deadline October 16, 2010
| View Discussion Thread Download BLEND file: theCabin_BLEND.rar Download FBX file: theCabin_FBX.rar Download LWO file: theCabin_LWO.rar Download MA file: theCabin_MA.rar Download OBJ file: theCabin_OBJ.rar Modeled by Andrew Kin Fun Chan and Dan Konieczka. |
This challenge is of a landscape and cabin which has been modeled by Andrew Kin Fun Chan and Dan Konieczka. Please credit them for the modeling anywhere you display an image outside of this thread.
Post your work in progresses (WIP) in this thread to receive feedback and ideas. Please do not post any WIP images in the Final Images Thread but, don't forget to post your final images there. The deadline for this challenge is October 16th, 2010.
You can download the 3D scene files from the following:
http://3drender.com/challenges/index.htm
