ESL Counter-Strike - IEM Katowice 2024 - The Ascent: Cinematic Lighting
Master vizdev & lighting I did for the arena environment before post and VFX was added. Rendered straight out of Unreal (Lumen real-time) with some light grade and film grain on top. Real-time snow was created from SkyCreator.
Environment closeup shot, also with Lumen
Some of the action cinematic lighting I did, total of 5 action shots were done under 6 hours given the deadline. Client also required path-tracing in UE, so I went with simpler setups here to save time. Pre-color grading and VFX
Arena fight sequence
ESL Counter-Strike's Official Video Release
Had the honor to work with BlueReelStudio on the IEM Katowice 2024 Cinematic - The Ascent:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnhfPGDjljU
https://www.artstation.com/bluereelstudio
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I was responsible for leading the lighting development for the arena fight section under a tight deadline of a week. I designed the master environment lighting and weather using UE5 with Lumen. I also did the lighting for 8 other closeup shots using Path Tracer in UE. The 5 gunfight sequence shots were given half a day to light due to the deadline. Definitely some areas to be improved but tried my best there given the time!
Hope you guys like it :)