Hello,
First put up on this discussion board. I’m a LA based mostly Lighting Artist working in Animated Function movies. I’m occupied with transitioning to gaming as the soundness appears higher. In movie the contracts are very quick, only a few months, Im hoping the gaming trade retains artists for a minimum of a yr or extra for a challenge?
I’ll begin to study some Unreal Engine lighting, if anybody has programs particular to lighting they discovered useful let me know. In any other case simply searching for normal suggestions/cautions/anecdotes about transition from movie to gaming. I’d like to do cinematics as effectively however I fear that simply offers me the identical instability and quick contracts that animation does.
sport lighting artists are fairly in demand and most studios provide full time positions, so folks usually stick with the identical studio for a few years in the event that they prefer it there.
cinematics are sometimes both completed in home by the identical group as the sport, or outsourced to a specalist firm, however they’re normally a mixture of full time positions and freelance positions there too.
It’s not been up to date shortly however i’ve bought some hyperlinks to Unreal Lighting stuff on my web site:
http://www.tharlevfx.com/reading-list
http://www.tharlevfx.com/lighting-example-levels
I’ve not completed the movie to video games transition myself however principally i’d simply seize some free ranges from {the marketplace} and do some relighting experiements and instances of day and so forth. to construct up a portfolio. The instruments are fairly good in Unreal, though issues can get fairly technical and efficiency could be a massive subject with lighting (issues like dynamic shadows are very costly so it’s a must to choose and select what’s essential sufficient to make use of costly options, or study to faux it)
do you’ve got a portfolio of movie work you would share? i’m certain when you have expertise you received’t discover the transition too tough.
