we have spent the past week tidying up the scene, making sure everything is as it should be. We have worked on the feedback Dave gave us last week.
I dealt with lighting, I found the problem was that point lights were affecting a much broader radius than what they needed, so the large amount of light sources resulted in something that wasn't very dark. to combat this I had to think about why something looks dark. in films they do not film in the dark, instead they use colours and contrast, so by making the point light radius smaller and only affecting a smaller area, the rest of the scene remains dark, while the points of interest are lit, heightening the contrast.
For the dirt, Chris created some good looking decals and splashed them about the level. I had learnt a little bit about post processing and decided to play around with tones and such and added a film grain to give a dirty, gritty overtone to the scene.
Unfortunately when it came to presenting for the last time, the lab machines had issues building lightmass, though Dave saw it in the editor and in real time without lightmass built, though that is not a proper representation of the final result. now all that is left is to work on the presentation of the hand in.
