Lighting an outdoor scene

I figured I would take this time to update you all with my classwork from my lighting and texturing course. The previous week i had to create realistic lighting for an outdoor scene for both day and night. The scene was already modeled for me and had textures. All I had to do was place the lights. Not too hard…

Here are the pictures from both the day and night that I did.

And for this weeks assignment that is due tomorrow (I actually finished it before the day has started!) I had to take my night and day scene and render them into a 1 second animated zoom clip. Which is one of the simplest forms of animation I have done, i had to make the water move and zoom into the scene. Not hard. The only pain is I have to render the scene frame by frame (Thank you for being automatic!) and it takes a while. My computer is (not surprisingly) extremely faster than the school computers. What would take those 1 hour to render 30 frames, takes me only about 15 minutes. Granted.. tonight I made a lot of mistakes and had to render the day scene out 5 times before I got it right (I had some weird settings on that was making it grainy) but! The speed of my computer has allowed me to perform those renders and be able to make changes before the due date has come around. If it took as long as it did at school, I would have to settle for something mediocre!

Here are the links to the YouTube. 1 second long, nothing special, you will get a taste though.

Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-GYnKsQ6L8
Night: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jS6KFgXjzBY