Creating effective computer generated scene lighting using traditional film lighting techniques

摘要

This thesis explores the process of translating traditional cinematic lighting into the digitalrealm by understanding distinctly different lighting styles of three Directors of Photography.These Directors of Photography are Conrad Hall, Gregg Toland, and Zhao Fei. Digitallighting studies representative of the work of each Director of Photography were created.In these studies, the lighting in scenes done by each Director of Photography was digitallymimicked. As a result, the lighting studies provided valuable insight into the approaches ofthese masters of light. An animation was created to display a scene lit in the three lightingstyles of each Director of Photography. The process, learned from the lighting studies, ofcreating three different lighting styles representative of each Director of Photography wasapplied to the final animation. The analysis and lighting studies of each Directors' of Photographystyle expedited the process of lighting the final animation in each different style.As a result, a more complex environment was effectively lit in three different cinematicstyles with animated light.