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KenzieSFT [2010-03-19 15:09:28 +0000 UTC]

Cool, but not a good picture to use, nor is the lighting really working.

I don't know what you did this in, but might I suggest two things? (Keep in mind I'll be talking from a Maya perspective - not sure what you used for this).

1) When you open this scene file, assuming you're using this as a background and/or compositing after rendering, create a camera with this background as the image plane and line up the grid with the carpet under their feet. Now you know your perspective is at least close. Put a use background shader under them so that you can get a shadow, as the use background will give you an alpha shadow that will show up when you put the background in... but make sure the shadow is facing the right way - those bright lights at the top of the pic are going to be problematic.

2) This is more of a color correction choice: Put your background here in as either an environment sphere or image based lighting, but make sure it doesn't actually display it. This way you'll get some of the environment's colour on your models, and it helps when doing any colour correction.

Good stuff! Have a great day!

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