This is the product of a half-day project at Gnomon. We went out into the studio alley and shot the images to create an HDRI image in Photoshop, and stitched the panorama photos to create the background. I then placed this Mech Bot modeled by Eric Hansen into the scene, lit it with the HDRI image and rendered it using Pixar's Renderman plugin for Maya.
+ Autodesk Maya 7
+ Renderman
+ EasyPano
