Lighting A Scene In Maya

This is the same scene that was built for the previous post EXCEPT now is it lit in Maya.


This is the scene with a key light, Colored Blue.



This is the scene with a fill light, Colored purple.



And just to mix things up a bit, here is the same scene with a third light added. A rim light with high intensity, colored green.


Now to mix things up again, is the same scene with a different lighting scheme:




I lit the scene using one spot light, and two area lights. The Spot Light is directly in front of my initials shining a blue light and casting a black shadow. The other two lights are positioned to the top left and top right of my initials and are colored red and purple respectively. The cool thing about this scene is that the initials are actually white (with a glow affect added to it). So all the color of the letters are due to the lights only. There is also a cool cast shadow effect.