Having never been a professional lighting artist, I am always conscious of the fact that being in academia tends to isolate artists from the rest of mainstream production. More than anything (except, perhaps Rigging), Lighting is a field where software and technology update faster than the speed of light and production practices are controlled as much by engineers as they are by artists.
This was the second year SOFA included Arnold into our rendering workflow, so there’s still a lot of experimenting in this process.
