Lighting & Lookdev — We Find a Race track — RenderMan Challenge

This project was created for the RenderMan Challenge: First Contact, where it received an Honorable Mention.
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Set in 2085 on Mars, this artwork imagines a hidden world of clandestine spaceship races. A human colonization craft stumbles upon this underground culture of speed, spectacle and high‑stakes competition.
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I handled all lighting, lookdev, shading and compositing, as well as the technical setup of the multi‑scene workflow
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Beyond the artistic focus on lighting, shading and compositing, I developed a modular Blender pipeline linking assets across animation, layout and lighting scenes. This ensured consistent updates, clean scene management and a scalable workflow similar to production setups.
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Assets by Adobe, Grayscalegorilla, and Pixar. RenderMan "First Contact" Art Challenge © Disney/Pixar