Lighting the way

Struggling to get the right lighting setup for the lower flood lights on the right below:

However, it's definitely coming together.  Once I get the idea for how the lighting should be I'll start to focus on the hallway's structural details that I have to put in.  There's going to be an entire series of magnetic pickups and humbuckers that I need to create to line the wall behind those cylinders (yes that's right, don't ask why).

On the right track-light

Getting the mood dialed in, this shot is from the opposite side.

Just for reference, yes I did do a sketch of the idea I was going for.

From concept, to WIP:

Trying to get everything to scale right now.  Coming up next, the next set of lights. Modeling the structure to scale has been a challenge as I am still learning as I go.  Same with the lights.  I've opted for certain photometric lighting methods in this case to simulate the realistic light-web so that it will give more of the atmosphere I am going for.

These concepts I've been working on are ideas I've had from several dreams that I wrote down and turned into a story.  very dark, very interesting, and very scattered at the moment!

Walk with me

There's a bit of procrastination going on, I didn't realize I had so many iterative updates on this WIP.

More of the lighting update but you can already tell it's going to get blown out, so I started tweaking the lighting a bit; GI still enabled.

Much better!  The recessed lighting along the upper portion of the ceiling is coming out great, they aren't supposed to be bright enough to light the room.  Up next: Side lights.

A fly on the wall...

Hokay, so...  Here's the deal.  I started this hallway concept for a story I have been writing.  it's been a long time in the works.  It's also extremely surreal and mostly just an odd collection of chapters thrown together.  So anyway, here's this hallway concept i'm working on.

I started out modeling the corridor itself, but I decided to start getting the lighting placement into the scene ASAP.  This is with GI off.  Definitely getting the basic geometry down.  The cylinders along the opposite wall, the light pots in place below, and the ceiling lights as well.

Inception, eat your heart out!

While I was watching Robot Chicken I managed to scramble this together.  Kinda interesting.  Another concept on the My Own Little World series.

Geo, how I met you :)

I was playing around with some fairly simply geometric shapes, and got the idea to just create some design based on them and then make a pattern.... Patterns are like rules, some are meant to be bent, others broken:

I played around quite a bit with them, This one below was one of the first renders I did...

An alternate shot, playing around with the materials and elevations of the shapes...

Out of my mind... be back in 5

Not sure what I was up to, BUT - it looked cool!  Playing with some material settings and the same geometry, I did however cancel the render early so deal with the noise.