This is part of a larger project which isn't finished but I realised I might be able to have something shareable for around Halloween, which seemed appropriate, and put this together. This is one room from the Addams Family house I've made based on the house in The Addams Family (1991) film.
This is very much WIP; there's still plenty to improve about the characters, poses, books, lighting and cobwebs, and still a fair amount of denoising artefacts, but I tried to resist trying to get this perfect and just getting it done.
The scene is from the scene in the film where the family perform a seance to try and call Fester home. There's a few extra characters in the film scene but I decided to cut them as I've already made six characters for the larger project (Gomez, Morticia, Wednesday, Pugsley and Lurch, and Gomez has four different outfits) and focus on just the main ones.
I used Light Linking for the first time with this render to isolate which lights could affect which object, which was really useful for having lights for specific characters without worrying about errant highlights.
As with all things, looking at this the next day I think I should have gone with slightly bolder lighting for the rim lights and crystall ball glow, but I will play around with that some more later.
Ray.