Is this lighting and realisticness for Roblox even possible? Image to Game Scale?

I’m trying to recreate the Disney+ series Monsters at Work in Roblox. Here is the issues I’m struggling with which I will explain below. I can’t get the picture to game proportions to be accurate, and the lighting is way off.

Hard to explain with no images, but I have a vision for my Roblox game I am currently struggling to figure out. It’s a Soft Realistic style but in a cartoony way?


This is a good example of what I mean. Maybe a little less detailed texture wise, but still there with a semi-realistic cartoony incorporated style. The ceiling still fading out at the top, and looking softer.

This is a super hard style to explain but heres what I’ve tried and the ideas I’ve had:
Elttob’s Volumetric Lighting & Fog (Never purchased because it’s $50 and is not worth that especially if it wont help)


Here’s a link to the YouTube video of him showcasing it if you are more interested with helping me and if it could help.

I’ve already tried with Roblox’s lighting features and they didn’t work out the best for me, same with the textures they give you built-into studio. (Newer ones)
Since these are what they started you off with, I planned to get PBR textures and texture my game completely by-hand, but I am unsure if that would work aswell.

Another issue I’ve had is picture to game scaling. I can never get the right proportions to get it to look like the image.



As you can see, it looks horrible compared to the image. I am going for photo to game perfectly.

For the correct scale of the pillars in the two images above, I even use blueprints from the 3D Models Pixar uses.

More images of the lighting/style.



As you can see, they all have different lighting schemes which is difficult to do in Roblox.

If you have any tips, videos, plugins, or anything to help me with this they are greatly appreciated.
If theres a game that you think matches the style I’m going for please comment it below also. I’ll include in-game screenshots too. I plan to revamp my current progress on the game to be more photo accurate and more realistic.



One more thing to add, is that the last image is not my best work and I hate it. I plan to redo it.

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