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Previously that I did for the environment, it is atmospheric and surreal since the character is not really there at all. I have tried a few different approach to make the scene feel surreal, making object floating around in mid air is cool, but it was later scrapped as it is not what I wanted (An exception to the world hub that I have build later on where objects has 0 gravity). In order to get the mood I wanted, I have tried different colors to get the nostalgia feel. At the end, I settled with yellowish orange and also adjust the matching and suitable color for the everything(props) in the classroom so everything will feel like one.



Lighting is also one of the key to creating a great scene, so I created 2 directional light in order to get the shadow I wanted, and perfect angle that allowed the lighting bathed into the window of the classroom. For this competition, I try to enhance the lighting effect to create something that I've never able to do it before like fog and depth of field. Also, I've made a minor adjustment to the classroom by adding a few props here and there just to make the environment feel like people actually been here before. Below is the screenshot of "Before" and "After".


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