Lighting Challenge final render

Here is the final rendered image, composited with ambient occlusion:

Updated render

Fixed the composition a little.

Shaders are almost finalized. There's a weird artifact happening on the wineglass that I don't really know how to fix. Otherwise, all that's left of surface is the wine bottle, roughing up the edges on the cheese, and the cork.

Lighting is still preliminary, but it will match the reference image.

Lighting Challenge: reference and progress

New reference for lighting and materials:

Early renders (working on materials):

New Composition

Going for wine and cheese now. Obviously the swiss cheese wedge isn't finished yet.

Lighting reference and paintover

Lighting paintover

I want natural light as if coming from a window on the left side.

Maybe even suggest blinds:

Fruits - material references

In progress materials:

Glass:

 Cork:

 Grapes:

 Orange:

Plums:

Apple:

Racquet Ball lighting

Racquet ball lighting work in progress

I'm lighting by eye, but here's a photo for reference taken as close to my eye level as possible.

I haven't gone on to match color yet, but I'm pretty happy with the light placement. The three main sources of light are:

• lamp - key
• fan light - key
• window - fill

I have to be kind of careful of the lighting conditions going on outside because it does affect how much light is coming from the window. The outdoor condition in which the above photo was taken is overcast around 4:30pm.

Fruit Composition

I can't decide which composition to go with. I'll most likely go with the bottom one because it'll show off the lighting better as a more holistic view.

Lighting Challenge

The scene I chose to light from Jeremy Birn's lighting challenges is the fruit scene.

I'll most likely move the fruit around to compose it better, but here are my possible camera angles for now.

References:

RenderMan Tutorials

From RenderMan University how-to site

Lighting

Rendering with Image based lighting

(getting weird artifacts in the environment light for some reason)

Using Shadows

Depth map shadow

 Raytraced shadow

Deep shadow

Color Bleeding

Ambient Occlusion

Approximate Occlusion and Color Bleeding

Using Custom Light Shaders

Slim

Creating Networks with Slim

Using Primitive Variables with Slim

Outputting Index Passes

All Purpose shader

Using AOVs