Study Task 3 - Switch to 3D backgrounds

 
I created a cave and forest in Maya and I've decided the backgrounds look better being 3D. It creates contrast from the characters and allows for zoom-in-shots. They'll keep to the same colour scheme.

First background concepts

Final background concepts

• Aiden's arms now longer (bottom-right shot)
• Original bottom-left shot was cut from script.

Cave experimentation

It was difficult getting the fire and texturing to work together so I rendered them separately, and replaced the fire with a point-light for the textures render.

The characters were then added. The mixed-medium combination works well.

I then animated the Maya forest, with Aiden cutting a tree down, which worked well.

Reference-Stage

Character-Stage