Lighting study · Solaris / Karma

Blue House

A foggy street corner at blue hour, rebuilt from the atmosphere of a painting.

About this piece

Chasing a mood, not a composition.

The starting point was a painting whose atmosphere stuck: cold blue fog swallowing the upper floors of a narrow building, while warm windows and paper lanterns hold the street level together. The aim was to rebuild that feeling in 3D rather than copy the painting frame by frame.

It also served as a hands-on study of a USD-based workflow: scene assembly and lighting in Solaris, rendering in Karma, and a light composite to finish. The work here is the light, the render and the comp.

Full view of a tall, narrow concrete building in cyan fog, warm light behind slatted windows, rooftop lamps and a lantern-lit shop at street level — Final frame

The same building rendered as a clay pass, showing only the cold fog key and the warm interior and street practicals — Clay pass · light rig without materials

Cold atmospheric key against warm practicals · Karma render with light compositing

Contribution and credits

Personal lighting study by András Turcsán: scene assembly, lighting, Karma rendering and compositing. The building model is a third-party asset.