I've Got The Music In Me (Kiki Dee)

Ain't got no trouble in my life,
No foolish dream to make me cry.
I'm never frightened or worried,
I know I'll always get by.
I heat up (I heat up)
I cool down (I cool down)
When something gets in my way I go round it.
Don't let life get me down
Gonna take life the way that I found it.

This render was a bit of a challenge. I wanted her looking out of the window at some nice scenery. The scenery also had to provide the main light, being daytime. So I used an IBL (from hdrlabs). I also wanted the effect of sunlight streaming through the window. The IBL couldn't provide that, as cranking up the output washes out the background. So I added a sun, and set the direction of the sunlight the same as the IBL light. As the sun is a powerful light, it obliterates the IBL light. Therefore, I changed the Sky setting in Reality to the lowest setting I could: 0.0001. The IBL setting in Reality was bumped up to 2. Then, in LuxRender, I changed the sun parameter to 0.000200. Lastly, with the IBL and sun coming through the window, the inside of the house was a little dark. It didn't look as if there was daylight coming through the back windows. A meshlight was therefore added, and placed to the left of the scene. For that I used the Daylight preset, and turned the power down to 10.

I think it all worked out quite well.

Oh, and the leopard. It is the bodyguard.

I also rendered a DOF version. You choose which one you like best :)

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