Star Wars Hoth Battle

This is my render of a Star Wars Hoth Battle scene. My inspiration was the new Battlefront game, and started loosely on this project shortly after playing the Beta, found myself happy with what I had at one point. But then yesterday, I had created better snow materials, better lightsaber models, and more experience with color management, and compositing.

Old Render:


New Render:


Obviously, since I’m posting this here, I just want all the help I can get.

I like the details on the light saber, and the second render with compositing looks much better than the first.

However, since it is snow, it probably would be a lot brighter. Go out in the snow and you get blinded easily, so many reflections. Some parts could be overblown and washed out from too much light. Make sure you have reflective caustics turned on, and don’t clamp at 1 (perhaps at 3 or 4 if at all). Or check out some of Gleb Alexandrov’s tutorials on lighting to get a really good effect.