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SARAH CHALEK
CG LIGHTER & ILLUSTRATOR

A Look Behind the Scenes

I put this page together for anyone curious to learn more. In each look behind the scenes, I'll share tips and tricks that I learned on each project. Click on each image to learn more.

Ready For It?

Taylor Swift is exploding in popularity this year and I'm so happy to see it, so I thought it would be fun to take a look back at the vfx work I did for her music video "Ready For It" in 2017.

Gobos

A gobo is a light filter or a mask used to alter the shape of a light in CG. I created lots of custom gobos while working at Nickelodeon and will show you how gobos can help with lighting.

RUGR_PenthouseCynthiaInt_Comp_09.tiff

Paint-overs

Before lighting a scene in 3D, I look at lighting keys provided by the visual development department, but sometimes I need to paint my own. I'll show you how quick paint-overs helped me light scenes at Disney.

Texturing New York

For my thesis film "Outdoors", I wanted to capture all of the gritty textures of NYC with a hand-crafted, impasto-painted feel. Here is how my team and I arrived at the final look.

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