CAPRI GETAWAY
ARTIST
Jake Williams
SOFTWARE
3ds Max, Corona Renderer, V-Ray, Phoenix FD, Forest Pack Pro
“As an artist I strive to find a good balance between tech and art,” says Jake, who spends his days working as lead visualisation specialist at WeWork in New York. For this creation Jake wanted to achieve the effect of a wide-angle fisheye lens, which does not currently exist within Corona, leading him to take a unique approach.
“This led me to an old-school method of building the whole scene in reverse and pointing the camera into a mirror ball,” Jake explains. To work around further limitations he created a duplicate scene using V-Ray to get elements such as shadows, raw lighting and multimattes, before combining the two in Corona. Finally, the Phoenix FD…