I’ve had the idea of creating something inspired by light colors for a while now. I finally found the time to bring this project to life, and was further inspired by listening to some songs featuring the beautiful sounds of the accordion. With this in mind, I set out to create an accordion-themed project that celebrates the versatility and charm of this unique instrument.
Lighting
After making models and composition of the scene, came the part of lighting, which is my favorite part. Played with lights quite a bit and finally settled on the following setting. One major light is on the far right; the rest are ambient or shading light. For example, the top left 2 lights are lights that create a blue shade behind the mid-body of the instrument. Final Gather was used to enhance the ambient lighting. Not to forget that Gamma was adjusted to 0.45 for physically accurate lighting.
Postprocessing
After the instrument was rendered out, comes the part of post-processing and wallpaper creation, which was done in Photoshop. Some primary color correction and composing of Color and Occlusion pass was processed and much attention was given to creating frame composition and enhancement of the colors. Additional music notes became the final touch.
I made it my wallpaper and eliminated some errors. I noticed. So the whole process took around one hour of post, while 5-6 hours in modeling and texturing of accordion and rendering. Make it your wallpaper and Enjoy!
