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[Concept Visualisation] Lighting

To further understand lighting better, I analysed 3 images based on how the artist had designed the lighting in the image. I was keeping in mind several of the basic rules of lighting including Absorbtion, Refraction and Reflection, but also more advanced ones such as Subsurface Scattering, Ambient Occlusion and Diffused Reflection.




The first image I looked at was by Jason Chan. In the image he makes very good use of cold blues in the background contrasted by the reds on the woman's garment and foreground fauna. The blue from the sky and water is very intense, and is reflecting the nearby trees. There is also some Diffused Reflection toward the viewer, as you can see the panthers paw through the water.




In this image from Dragon Age: Origins you can see the good use of absorbtion of light on the beast's face as it picks up the purple from the orb. There is also some nice ambient occlusion as the shadows cast by the woman's hood fade toward the edge of her face.




This is another very nice image by Jason Chan. The bright orange of the flame is being reflected on to the woman's face, as well as being subsurface scattered through the thin hair around the lion's mane. There is also some very dense fog that is picking up the reds from the bottom of the screen.