Sohan Reddy
Scene downloaded from www.3drender.com for lighting practice
Lighting and Render in 3ds Max 2011 with Mental Ray

Scene downloaded from www.3drender.com for lighting practice

Lighting and Render in 3ds Max 2011 with Mental Ray

Product rendering, I had worked on the Lighting and rendering for this when I was working at Antroid.
Tools: Maya and photoshop

Product rendering, I had worked on the Lighting and rendering for this when I was working at Antroid.

Tools: Maya and photoshop

My Show reel with shot breakdown

Sohan Reddy

3D Artist, Lighting Rendering and Compositing

Show reel 2010 breakdown



  • Shot 01
Studio: Anithing Studio Pvt Ltd
Project title: Veer Vansh – promo for full length 3d  animated film
Role: I was the Lighting, Rendering and Compositing Lead artist. Mental Ray was the primary renderer and Final Gather was used in most of the shots. SSS material for the characters.
Tools: Maya, Mental Ray, Combustion
  • Shot 02

Studio: Anithing Studio Pvt Ltd

Project title: Oze bear – Australian project, promo for a kids show.

Role: I was the Lighting, Rendering and Compositing Lead artist. Mental Ray was the primary renderer and Final Gather was used in most of the shots.

Tools: Maya, Mental Ray, Combustion

  • Shot 03

Studio: Antroid

Project title: Camero Seq – created for company portfolio.

Role: I was in charge of creating the set, materials Lighting Rendering and Final output. Rendering the last few sequences with motion blur with time constraints was challenging.

Tools: Maya, Mental Ray. Combustion.

  • Shot 04

Studio: Antroid

Project title: Halftrack Seq – created for company portfolio.

Role: I was in charge of materials Lighting Rendering and Final output. Lighting with MR sunlight system and Final Gather.

Tools: Maya, Mental Ray. Combustion.

  • Shot 05

Studio: Antroid

Project title: The Cathedral – created for company portfolio.

Role: I was in charge of materials Lighting Rendering and compositing Final output. Lighting and Rendering in 3ds Max.

Tools: 3ds Max, Mental Ray. Combustion.

  • Shot 06

Company: AAT

Project title: 3D Lab – created as a CG + Live compositing exercise.

Role: Other than taking the Photo I worked on this from start to Finish.  Camera matching, creating the CG set, keying, color correction and compositing.

Tools: Photoshop, 3ds Max, Combustion.

  • Shot 07

Company: AAT

Project title: Mutta – Music Video for film student portfolio.

Role: I worked on all the effects for the music video. Green screen keying and adding effects backgrounds. Full video at:

Tools: Combustion.

  • Shot 08

Company: AAT

Project title: Logo animation

Role: I worked on these from start to finish with some assistance from students at AAT.

Tools: Maya, 3ds Max, Photoshop, Combustion.

Another Music video titled

Usiku na Mchana-Kalulete

by Mutta, SAE student [http://www.saeindia.net].

I was the VFX team for this video

It was a lot of fun working on this, got a lot of green screen footage to play with.

All the compositing and effects work in combustion.

Adarsh Menon (SAE student) created the bg art.


This is a Music video called ”Cellphone Camera Blues”  performed by UMO and directed by Neil Quadras, Capture Crew Productions(www.capturecrew.com

I was VFX supervisor :)

Helped the crew with compositing effects.

I worked on this for Naveen and Sendil 

They were working on a project for the Akshara Foundation http://www.aksharafoundation.org/

Completely created with photoshop, 3ds Max and Combustion

[caution no sound in this :D]

My show reel 

I was in-charge for lighting materials and rendering for all the stuff in the video, some parts modeling too.

mainly Mental ray in Max and Maya

of-course most people who see it say ‘great animation man!’ nobody says great Lighting :| …. okay not really :)

My first Architectural Master piece

My first Architectural Master piece

firefox :)

firefox :)