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[cecofuli]

On my website, you can see more images, like high version, CAD projects, real photos and our hand drawings concept.
I hope you will find interesting.
Tomorrow, more renderings.

[agentdark45]

Ok, now that my I've picked my jaw back up from the ground....all I have to say is absolutely incredible!!!! These last few images were some of the best CGI I've ever seen. The attention to detail, lighting, materials...everything is so photographic.

How are you getting your white's so white and contrasted without everything being washed out? Do you use any novel tricks or do the Corona renders look quite similar to the final result? Your white balance appears to be spot on in nearly all shots without anything looking cold / grey - a problem I often have.

One more question if you wouldn't mind, are these HDRI lit or do you use Corona sun/sky? I'd be really grateful if you could share your lighting setup.

[cecofuli]

Hi, thanks agentdark45, but, this isn't nothing to special.
As I wrote, it's very fast project with low budget. So, the details are not so much, same for the attention of texture etc...
No special secret, believe me. Usually I try to avoid bright image directly in Corona (or in VRay); my rendering is a little bit dark.
And I correct it in Post. I save my raw rendering as a .png 16bit.
Next, I open PS and I play with curves, exposure, level, color balance. There are a lot of tutorial on youtube.
Light? CoronaSun+CoronaSky! No time to play with different HDRI etc... =)
This is a corona RAW file sample:

[cecofuli]

[agentdark45]

Hi, thanks agentdark45, but, this isn't nothing to special.
As I wrote, it's very fast project with low budget. So, the details are not so much, same for the attention of texture etc...
No special secret, believe me. Usually I try to avoid bright image directly in Corona (or in VRay); my rendering is a little bit dark.
And I correct it in Post. I save my raw rendering as a .png 16bit.
Next, I open PS and I play with curves, exposure, level, color balance. There are a lot of tutorial on youtube.
Light? CoronaSun+CoronaSky! No time to play with different HDRI etc... =)
This is a corona RAW file sample:

[img width=1024 height=724]http://www.francescolegrenzi.com/Works/44_Pontresina/05_Carmela/Carmela_01_1200_raw.jpg[img]

Oh I see, I might have to adopt your approach of rendering a slightly darker image from Corona and then exposing it in post - I've always tended to try and get the exposure right in the renderer in the past.

One last quick question about Corona sun & sky - do you manually lower the values of the Sun (I normally put mine around 0.03) and lower the intensity of the Corona Sky map. Or do you keep them at the default values and use Corona's exposure options to tweak the exposure? Not sure if this would make a difference in reality...but seeing as you have your set-up spot on it would get good to get some insight on this! Do you mess with the colour balance in Corona at all? I find that my white walls tend to come out either too blue or yellow - I can't get them to look as neutral as yours.

Thanks a lot for the help!

[Ondra]

I would recommend not touching controls of sun/sky, and instead lowering exposure to about -5

[Juraj]

I would recommend not touching controls of sun/sky, and instead lowering exposure to about -5

But the intention is to create different ratio between Sun:Sky, so one has to alter one or other. If I use sun, I also use it purely in much much weaker position, no need to simulate alpine strong light.

[agentdark45]

I would recommend not touching controls of sun/sky, and instead lowering exposure to about -5

I see, therefore I'd need to bump up my interior light intensities to compensate - would this be a more "physically correct" way of using Corona?

[cecofuli]

I did't touch, in these renderings, sun or sky.  =)

[Ondra]

I would recommend not touching controls of sun/sky, and instead lowering exposure to about -5

I see, therefore I'd need to bump up my interior light intensities to compensate - would this be a more "physically correct" way of using Corona?

Both will produce same results, but with exposure-change workflow you are ready for physical camera, and have lower chance of screwing something up, plus you do it entirely in postproduction and realtime

[maru]

But if you are not using HDRI enviro light and for example want a "cloudy" lighting, then you have to change some parameters in sun/sky, right?

[cecofuli]

New set of images.
Again, on my website, you can see more images, like high version, CAD projects, real photos and our hand drawings concept.
I don't want to bore you with technical stuff =)

[cecofuli]

[londonvisuals]

Dude pls stahp or I'm going to pay You a Visit and watch what you do on those machines 24/7 for a week and soak up the knowledge like a sponge :D
I mean it :D

[maru]

I must admit your works are HARDLY distinguishable from photos. Each one of them is a masterpiece. Do you work alone or in a team?