Making of Tiger Zooby Massimo Righi, Italy Web: www.massimorighi.com


Rendering

For the Mental Ray rendering settings, I used the Gauss filter with Min =1 Max =3 Sample Levels.


The final render is 3636 x 2772 and it took about 15 hours on a Quad Pentium. I than made an Ambient Occlusion pass and added it within Photoshop. I duplicated it in two different layers, setting one 'Multiply' and the other 'Overlay', I  tweaked those layer's transparency then enhanced the contrast and the color gamma till I was happy with the final result.




Next I tried another angle view of the tiger because I wanted to try a different feeling. I changed the camera angle focusing on his head. That was pretty the same pose, I only changed the head and neck position.



I learned a lot throughout the Making of this image and loved playing with Maya, Photoshop and Shave and Haircut trying to do what I really like. Hopefully I have given an insight into the idea behind the creation of this Zoo's young tiger. I also hope it will prove helpful in some ways to all who are reading.


Related Links

Interview with Massimo Righi - Read Here

Making of Trapped - Read the making

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