This scene uses a strong backlight, as a tribute to the earlier sci-fi movies. The first step was to setup dark silhouetes on a light background, then add a backlight so that shadows will be running accross the camera, and eventualy recreate the bouncing of light to emphasize the characters’ features.
| Fresnel reflexion created a slight transition around the silhouetes. An arealight casts soft shadows (but in this case a pointlight with sharp shadows will probably works as well), and spotlights here and there were usefull to trace the bouncing of light. Using radiosity here would have been hard to control and probably far less accurate.
To sum up I would say that playing with violent contrasts, orange eyes versus a dark head, helps to suggest a menacing robot. |