Mischief in the Museum

This is the assignment set for the Lighting and Look Development unit on my Computer Animation and Visual Effects course. The aim of this assignment was to tell a story through a single frame where lighting is the main narrative driver. In my project, the story is that a child has snuck into a museum to get up close and personal with the Tyrannosaurus skeleton. The scene was rendered in Chaos Vray for Maya, my new favourite render engine for Maya.