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Gallery / Appliance Flame Simulation

« on: 2021-03-26, 18:16:26 »

We've been experimenting with Chaos' Phoenix fluid dynamics plugin, simulating gas burner flames in a CG animation. We're quite pleased with the outcome.
If anyone is interested we've written up a page that gives a bit more insight into the process > https://www.pikcells.com/lab/appliance-flame-simulation/

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Gallery / Hidden Home Office

« on: 2021-03-17, 11:04:18 »

This one is a bit more of an interior design post but hope it's still appreciated.

We styled and crafted this hidden home office CGI to demonstrate the practicality and sophistication of our clients bespoke furniture. Our artists recreated the clients hidden office concept, with further embellishments from our interior design team to compliment the trendy colour palette with stylish props.

As usual for us, this one has been produced in 3DSMax and rendered with Corona renderer, adding finishing touches and colour adjustments in Adobe Photoshop and Fusion Studio 16.

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Gallery / Handcrafted Timber Wall Panels

« on: 2021-02-24, 17:47:02 »

We were commissioned to craft twelve original interior spaces to exhibit our clients range of sustainable timber wall panels. The panels come in three distinctive styles with a variety of timber finishes available. Our interior teams absolutely love working with natural textures, so were delighted with the opportunity to craft these desirable interiors. Each space was designed in-house to be attainable, aspirational and feature fashionable furnishings alongside the timber wall products. 

Our 3D artists created the majority of the supporting furnishings and props from scratch to support the trends selected by our stylists. Scenes are built in 3DSMax and rendered using Corona renderer with additional finishing touches and colour adjustments made using Adobe Photoshop and Fusion Studio 16.

More about this project https://www.pikcells.com/portfolio/naturewall-cgi/

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Gallery / Pencil Grey Kitchen CGI

« on: 2021-02-12, 17:59:39 »

Just a few renders we've produced recently for one of our clients. Our stylists created this kitchen space with a deeper colour palette and contrasting veined white marble surfaces. The use of a full wall of Crittall style windows gave plenty of light so the interior still keeps a bright appearance and including lavish features like the gold cabinet profile adds merit to the overall design.









More from this series - www.pikcells.com/portfolio/wren-kitchens-cgi

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Gallery / Winter TV Ads 2020-2021 Animation Compilation

« on: 2021-01-25, 17:37:31 »

We designed and created these four subtle animations for our kitchen client's 2020 / 2021 winter TV advert campaign. To add an authentic element we used real world tracking data for the camera, captured from a previous ad to give the camera a more natural movement.

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Gallery / Modular Office Shelving CGI

« on: 2021-01-08, 11:15:39 »

Last year we created a full CG office interior for one of our clients to display their new line of sofas (see https://forum.corona-renderer.com/index.php?topic=27943). The client returned with a new brief, this time to create a collection of striking modern office interiors, showcasing their new range of modular shelving. The shelving product has been specifically designed for storage and zoning in open plan workspaces. It uses a triangular framework which can be configured with shelves, lockers and cupboards to suit almost any office environment.

Each interior has been planned by our in house design team before being produced in 3DSMax and rendered with Corona renderer, adding finishing touches and colour adjustments in Adobe Photoshop and Fusion Studio 16.

We've also created a clever online configurator tool for the shelving if anyone wants to play around with configurations - https://www.pikcells.com/portfolio/frovi-furniture-cgi-interactive

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Gallery / Photo scanned pumpkin and squash models

« on: 2020-10-31, 12:39:00 »

Our 3D artists crafted this fully CG autumnal table decoration using some freshly photo scanned pumpkin and squash models.
These new assets were created and processed in a day using our new photogrammetry rig, which really shows off the detail captured by using this tech.

Click the attached files below for much higher resolution

Photo scan processing done in Reality Capture, textures edited in Substance then rendered in 3DSMax + Corona.
More info on the capture process here https://www.pikcells.com/lab/digital-asset-capture-for-high-resolution-cgi/

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Gallery / Matt Grey & Timber Kitchen

« on: 2020-10-16, 12:47:24 »

We find that kitchens (and other interiors) with darker colour palettes often require a slightly more complex CG lighting setup. Here's one of our recent kitchens for a US client, where the artists have kept the lighting looking natural and bright with lighter wall finishes and a high beamed ceiling.

More of our American CGI > https://www.pikcells.com/gallery/usa

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Gallery / Duck Egg Blue Kitchen CGI

« on: 2020-10-01, 14:56:48 »

Here's a recent duck egg blue kitchen interior we created, we love the elegance and simplicity of this one. Our stylists made this a bright classic styled interior with subtle hints of woodgrain in the cabinetry internals and props.
As usual we created this with 3DSMax + Corona, colour accuracy adjustments and tweaks in Adobe Photoshop and Fusion Studio 16.





More of our kitchen CGI >
https://www.pikcells.com/gallery/kitchens

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[Max] Tutorials & Guides / Create A Realistic Wool Rug Using Hair & Fur - 3DSMax & Corona Renderer Tutorial

« on: 2020-09-25, 15:23:43 »

Earlier in the year we shared our Swoon CGI roomset and got a lot of feedback asking for a tutorial video to show the process we used to create the wool rug using hair and fur techniques.
It's taken a little time due to our recent workload (customers obviously come first), but here's a video tutorial showing the 3D process in as quick a time as possible.

Page with all the video notes and reference images - https://www.pikcells.com/lab/photorealistic-rug-hair-and-fur-tutorial

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Gallery / Shaker Cashmere Open Plan Kitchen

« on: 2020-08-06, 17:27:06 »

Another of our recent CGI interiors from a kitchen layout supplied by our client. This elegant shaker kitchen bridges modern and traditional using a layout that carries the cabinetry through from the kitchen into the dining space using complimenting bench seating.
The scene was crafted in-house by our artists using 3DSMax + Corona renderer, colour accuracy adjustments and tweaks in Adobe Photoshop and Fusion Studio 16.

More kitchen CGI from this project > www.pikcells.com/portfolio/life-kitchens-cgi

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Gallery / Carbon Black Shaker Kitchen

« on: 2020-07-31, 14:33:01 »

Here's some more of the gorgeous contemporary kitchen CGI we've created whilst remote working. The cabinet selection and kitchen plan was provided by our client and their choice of carbon black doors alongside oak and complimenting gold accessories really keeps the design looking stylish and on-trend.

The 3D production, interior styling and additional prop modelling was completed by by our in-house team. We used 3DSMax and rendered using Corona renderer. Colour accuracy adjustments and tweaks in Adobe Photoshop and Fusion Studio 16.

More of our kitchen renders > https://www.pikcells.com/gallery/kitchens

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Gallery / Shaker Olive Kitchen Images

« on: 2020-07-27, 15:34:16 »

This interior is CGI that we've reworked from a kitchen produced last year. One of the smart advantages of 3D of course is to easily be able to amend materials, textures and props. The client wanted to keep the same layout but asked us to refresh the old set with an alternative door style and colour scheme.

More kitchen CGI (and the original coral coloured kitchen) > https://buff.ly/2OXYDlc

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Work in Progress/Tests / RGB Interactive Lighting Demo

« on: 2020-07-22, 15:15:05 »

We produced this lighting demo quite a while back and thought it may be interesting to share as it's still a clever use of Corona light mix. We used Corona to render the scene and split out each light beauty pass from the EXR. Some clever coding by our interactive team then combines the images each time the user requests a change in the browser.

Please forgive the basic user interface, at the moment it's just a proof of concept. And we have spotted a number of additional image quality improvements already.

We set this up with a kitchen, given it’s the most likely interior environment to have RGB strip lighting, but this could be added to any 3D room or product model.

Feel free to have a go yourself (this version works best on desktop PC's)> https://www.pikcells.com/lab/rgb-lighting-demo/

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Gallery / Hunton Handleless Green Kitchen

« on: 2020-07-15, 13:00:52 »

Here's another kitchen from our recent projects. This contemporary cabinetry range and room layout was designed by our client, with our 3D team using the brief to produce these impressive, fashionable CG images. The combination of copse green, cashmere and gold accessories in this kitchen really bring it together.

The full set for this client can be found here >> https://www.pikcells.com/portfolio/second-nature-kitchens