Well this is my first challenge and really my first full project. Hopefully it won't look too bad. This is a quick sketch iI did of my idea, please pardon the crappy 2nd grade drawing level I have

https://spiffyguy.com/simplymaya/schoolsketch.jpg

Anyway my idea was to have a kid on his first day of school, standing outside the school with the look of fear on his face. For the lighting side I hope to make the kid and the stuff on the left side to be very bright and saturated, using mainly rounded smooth objects. I hope to not have shadows on that side of the project and jsut seem to have a glow about it.

The right hand side of the pic is the school and it will look grim. Long shadows, dimly lite and desaturated. Clouds in the sky or may some fog. The sign will be in decay and the flowers will be wilted. The objects on this side I will try to have sharp edges and just seem wicked and creepy.

Over the whole thing I hope to try to do a cartoony look or maybe claymation for the textures. I hope I can pull off the look. I haven't worked much with lighting so it will be a challenge. All I can do is try right? So comment away while i get started.