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The displacement map was created by converting the mesh in Mudbox into one and a set of exr files.

Fog off. Fog on.  Fog on now coloured differently and with the height adjusted.  Tree scene without atmosphere. Completed scene with AIatmosphere added. A gobo filter was added to the spotlight and giving a fractal as a texture to achieve the spotty, hazy lighting. 

An edited rendered image that was created by using EXR files and composting them together in Adobe After Effects. Once together and seperated into their own layers I was able to edited specific parts of the character such as brightening the eyes using the linear colour key option in After Effects.

The scene had a motion blur effect added in post-porduction in Adobe After Effects. Scene also had to be rendered in render sequence.

Ordinary beauty render. Ambient Occlusion without glass. Ordinary and ambient render 

Render without any effects. A vingette was able to be added to the camera. Depth of field added. The aperture was adjusted to about 30' for the desired effect.

Stand ins were created by importing the object, bringing in its bounding box and then duplicating it to achieve the effect seen on screen.

Used a special IES file to get the effect of the lighting. IES is a type of file that produces the lighting effect of a specific downlight.

Exposure was increased on the mesh to achieve the effect.

A physical sky light was added to the scene and the settings adjusted for different times of day. An evening with setting with sun located at a different angle to be visible. The exposure has been adjusted for a brighter, clearer atmosphere.

Caustics were created using a spot light and applying the caustic tiff image sequence onto it. This allowed for the illusion of an underwater environment with light shining from the surface.