renderd environment shots

When it came to rendering out the environment shots what I did was render out two versions of the same image. Th first one being white and black which is called the occlusion layer which shows the shadows in start contrast. The bottom renderd image is the colour layer, and when you have all of the images and put them into the editing software called after effects you layer the images on top of each other so that the shadows appear nicely over the colour version. This is the same technique which is used to render out all of the characters which are done seperatly from the environment.It also helps to speed up the rendering process because you render out all the layers seperatly instead of rendering the whole image out in a huge chunk, which can slow everything down and if anything goes wrong you can potentially loose the whole scene you was rendering out.