Carousel Book

I modeled this pop-up book in Maya and rendered it using Renderman. For the lighting and texturing, I created a saturated color palette for the books in the background to add to the circus theme, but the primary focus is on the brightly lit carousel. In addition to the mesh lights on the carousel, I have 3 lights in the scene plus an HDRI.

Before starting the project, I used paper to figure out my idea and understand how it would work in the real world.