MAYA Truck Demo

• Skydome light yellow

• Maya direction lights, no skydome: got rid of the background colour which created a better surrounding light, but the setting is not very visible, and so there are very little shadows. 

• Skydome plus HDRI: Using a free to download HDRI based off of a naturally lit artist workshop. The light came strongly form one direction, and the shadows were very strong at any other angle. 

•  HDRI plus orange temperature: I thought that the change to a similarly coloured flooring had helped the exposure levels on the previous tests - and so I thought using the orange end of the temperature spectrum might help exaggerate the texture, but it did the opposite, blending in the texture to the light using the glossy shine. Positively, the increase in temperature neutralised the angle of the lighting by distancing the background. 

• HDRI plus blue temperature: I think the blue balances out the strong exposure in the other images, which makes it look much clearer. The more washed out colours are not like the reference image, which is what I was previously aiming for - however the glossy lighting helps to make this still look like a child's toy, and not a block of wood. I also think that the blue background helps in the image of this being a boy's toy in his bedroom.