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General Category => Gallery => Topic started by: eduard.caliman on 2013-10-26, 23:19:32

Title: Classy living room
Post by: eduard.caliman on 2013-10-26, 23:19:32

Hi guys,

here are some visuals I have been working on.

Would love to hear your opinions on them.

Cheers !

(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3716/10497574734_97a5dae449_o.jpg)


(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2825/10497588174_beb51a9852_o.jpg)


(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3718/10497519814_8bd2f09b16_o.jpg)


(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5532/10497429904_54237850b8_o.jpg)


(http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2868/10497404385_114ff8cc8a_o.jpg)


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7302/10497792283_5d03f446ff_o.jpg)


(http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3787/10497667093_c8883ccf4e_o.jpg)


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7353/10497746423_2d351b438e_o.jpg)


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7395/10497459344_c4db41745e_o.jpg)


(http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5497/10497731183_785d9e1113_o.jpg)


(http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7336/10497686003_4e66969c55_o.jpg)

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: Chakib on 2013-10-27, 00:37:05

i have one comment :

I'm in love after seeing these renders !

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: eduard.caliman on 2013-10-27, 00:50:41

Thanks Chakib xD I'm glad you like them !

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: Jack on 2013-10-27, 01:45:10

Very nice work!   
It inspires...

I think the night views look more glamorous and chicly, it would be great if you could share light settings, timing and how you achieved the clear images...   

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: eduard.caliman on 2013-10-27, 02:13:40

Hi there Jack, thank you very much for your words.

Both for the daytime and nightime shots I used hdris to light the interior. I've been using corona for quite a while now but I am still amazed by how easy it is to light scenes using hdris, there's basically no difference time wise from corona sky. I'm talking about time difference because I come from a vray background (like most guys here I guess) and we all know how much longer proper hdri lighting workflows took.

I usually left each render either overnight or from morning untill 6pm when I got home from work so on average it would be about 7/8 hours, but that was just for my satisfaction because I wanted crisp renders although they were looking very good after 3/4 hours.

My configuration is 2x Xeon 5650 processor and 24 GB Ram.

I did encounter some slight issues with the strong DOF on the close-up images with the lamps in the foreground. The highlights and the glass material didn't help too much. After a thorough research on the forum I saw that it is a flaw that corona has, even though I'm sure there will be an improvement in the future in this regard. I did a lot of tests with the render settings to get rid of the noise but in the end I ended up using pretty much default settings. What I ended up doing was fixing those renders with the zdepth pass, I just gave the DOF a further slight blur in After Effects using frischluft (ps. the photoshop frischluft plugin doesn't work as well as the AE one)

One other issue that I encountered is in the night shots. In one render (4th one from bottom to top) I used IES files with a medium intensity for directionality. Unfortunately, at the moment, directionality is known to cause serious noise (stronger noise as you raise the intensity from 0 to 1) but Keymaster is aware of this and I read in a post that he will fix that in the future.

These 2 issues are very very important for the type of visuals that I am (and I think all of us) are doing so I hope Keymaster will give the proper priority to these (I will still use corona even if he doesn't xD )

Cheers !

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: rafpug on 2013-10-27, 02:07:40

Rendering excellent .

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: simastorre on 2013-10-27, 06:50:51

Great images.
Can you share image filter settings?

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: Alexbuk on 2013-10-27, 08:51:33

Atmospheric. Realistic. Super

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: maru on 2013-10-27, 09:45:11

In 1st and 3rd render there are some strange white contours around the "dirt" on the mirror. I suspect it's because of filtering or you can see the "back" of the dirt map reflected in the mirror. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: eduard.caliman on 2013-10-27, 10:02:21

Hi maru, that's simply because of the slight bump value that I used on that shader.

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: klyde on 2013-12-14, 15:06:15

What a lovely shots!

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: eduard.caliman on 2013-12-15, 02:29:07

Thanks Klyde, I'm glad you like'em !

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: klipanos on 2013-12-15, 20:31:14

The daytime renders are very flat of colours...
The nightime renders on the other hand are pure excellency!!!! well done!!!!

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: Benjamin_F on 2013-12-21, 14:38:48

Nice renders. I really like the lights and the mood, specially on the last one.

Title: Re: Classy living room
Post by: astudio on 2013-12-23, 03:08:51

I like your renders, but not your choice of wineglasses. I'd like to drink from another ware. ;)