Unit 6 - Creative Challenge

In Unit 6, we dove deep into lighting and showed you how we created the lighting and lighting style in our Scene. In this creative challenge, you’ll become the lighting designer and put a new spin on the Scene by adjusting the lighting properties and the post processing in both the Scene and on the cameras.

Before you begin, you’ll want to consider what mood you want to create with your lighting. You should do some research on films and animations that you think have beautiful lighting, and you’ll want to find some reference images you can use as you work on your new lighting design. For inspiration, you might want to look at lighting in Blade Runner, The Godfather, or event the animated film Klaus. Pay attention to the Scene colors, the contrast and shadows, and where the lights are in the Scene. There are countless examples of beautiful lighting in films and animations — you just need to look.

You’ll create your new lighting design in the Unit6_StarterFiles project, in the Unit6CreativeChallenge Scene. Your new lighting should include:

• Removing or adding lights to the Scene
• Adjusted color grading
• Adjusted fog
• Adjusted bloom
• Adjusted vignette or adjusted depth-of-field settings on the cameras
• For a difficult challenge, try removing all the lights and starting from scratch

Once you’ve completed your project, use the Recorder to create a daily in .mp4 format of your new lighting design and upload it to our public gallery. If you are unable to submit a screenshot in this step, please make sure you are signed into Learn with your Unity ID.

Here are a few additional tutorials that you might find helpful for working with lighting and post processing in URP:

• Introduction to URP
• Lighting in URP
• Understanding Scriptable Render Pipelines