Abandoned Apartment Scene - Relight

Created during week 2 of "The Art of Lighting for Games" at CGMA, this project showcases a relighting of the Megascans Abandoned Apartment scene. I utilized baked lighting, HDRI sky textures, and fog sheets for added depth, building on techniques from week 1. Post-processing effects, such as color grading and film grain, were added to match the mood of my reference images.

The primary goal was to evoke a golden hour atmosphere, with an orange sunset casting warm, diffused light and long shadows. Blue and green tones scatter through the scene, as the low sun produces a soft, glowing tint across both shadows and highlights. For added drama, I incorporated accent lights in open areas to emphasize wall shadows and simulate subsurface scattering on the red tarp (swapping out the original blue tarp for a red one to create bold contrast).

Thanks to Adriano Grasso for his valuable feedback on my scene