Common Art: Week Three

Use of Value and Contrast

For this assignment, we were given maps rendered in Maya and had to layer them in Photoshop and create a 2d scene. The map I was most interested in was the Z Map: 

I'd never rendered or even heard of a Z Map before, and don't know what they're used for in a 3d context. But I thought the foggy look of it was interesting and kind of dramatic, so I wanted to use it.

I thought I could use the lighter portion of the map to make those regions look like they were glowing, like the interior and undercarriage of the vehicle were lit.

Grayscale: