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I would have preferred to do this traditionally but I had no printer and my Photoshop subscription just ran out. While doing the assignment, I felt that I was finished a lot of times but decided to stick with it, trying to exaggerate and improve even more on the AO placements and characteristics. Trying to see what more I could "show". This is a very educational exercise regardless of which method.
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ASSIGNMENTS
Overview
Now it's time to take the Ambient Occlusion (AO) Study to the third dimension! In this project, you'll take an existing image and shade it again, using only soft ambient sky light.
Materials Needed
- One of the project images (see downloads section) or a reference image of your choice.
- You can do the occlusion study in any medium. Choose the medium you are most comfortable with.
Steps
- Select an image you love or download the project image.
- Either A) print the image or B) open it in your preferred digital painting application.
- Create an "ambient occlusion pass". This means you shade the subject as if it were lit only with ambient light, like an overcast sky. Shade your subject as if it were made of white plaster.
- Upload your study alongside the original image.
Duration
This project should take 1–3 hours to complete. Go for high quality.
Examples
Common Mistakes
1) Making Ambient Occlusion too small or too big
2) Making Ambient Occlusion too light or too dark
Tips: Ambient Light vs. Key Light vs. Fill Light
difficult assignment: ambient occlusion: AO study 2 and 3. i chose the disney animal as an own object - thinking about it i guess i did too much shading rather than actually only focussing on the ambient occlusion....drwing the fisch took very long . espicially at the fins I wasn´t really shure if I see the ambient occlusion right. I would be happy about any replys andyour own experiences. Please Dorian give feed back.