Have you ever rendered an underwater scene, but lacked an accurate capture of the subtle and unique lighting found underwater?
We are excited to announce a brand new HDR Lightmap, our first one captured underwater. Its also one of the first professionally captured, unclipped, HDR map captured underwater at night. Go to our main page to see a sample, or view the collection on our store.
In Arkell's own words: "To capture and create this underwater light map, I used Aquatech's housing for the Canon 1dmk4. For more details on their UW housings visit www.aquatech.net and/or contact Evan Prokup evan@aquatech.net I found the aquatech housing very comfortable to work with in the water. The housing was mounted in portrait orientation on a typical carbon fiber tripod and weighed down with a 20 kg dumbbell to counter the positive buoyancy of the housing. Since I intended to use a 1dmk4 with 8-15mm, the housing needed to be mounted in a portrait orientation to achieve a 180 vertical fov, but the standard housing didnt have a mount point for this. After a little brainstorming with Evan, we realized it wouldnt take much to make a tripod mounting plate which could be easily swapped out with the existing housing side handle. So aquatech custom built me such a mount plate and now offer it as an accessory."
The picture below portrays the rig which sat at the bottom of the pool:
View the turntable video, rendered in PRMan16's Physically Plausible Shading:
What Shaders or HDR Lightmaps would you like to see on our site? Do you use 3Delight, PRMan, or other renderers? We'd love to hear your feedback:
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