For this first practice, we worked with Professor Gaynor to obtain a matching object (cube and sphere) to the one on a previous photoshoot.
Image provided by Professor Gaynor, shot by Jung Woo Jin
We made sure to look first at the original image's properties and match the same properties on Maya to obtain the best results as well as the image resolution (5760 x 3240) and camera lens.
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After some tweaking and trials, I was able to align it as close as possible to the cube in the photo.
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As for the lighting I use an HDRI file assigned to a sphere that will represent our skydome, as well as adding a Sun light to represent our lamp for the time being. I will keep working with this later on to make it match better.
Here are my CG Match objects in contrast to the photo that Professor Gaynor provided us.
