CG Door Interiors

[Pikcells]

Our client, a door importer, wanted us to create a series of CG images for their new product catalogue. The images were all designed and styled in house with the challenge being to display the door as prominently as possible without letting the interior styling dominate the image. A flat composition was chosen for the majority of the images to maximise the visibility of the product in each image.

We created 15 individually styled rooms and with a wide variety of models and textures fabricated specially for this project. Each interior has a high level of detail, given that doors are generally simplistic, great care has been taken to ensure accuracy.

















3dsmax
Corona renderer
Marvellous Designer - fabrics simulations
Adobe After Effects and Photoshop for some tweaking

Design, styling and production by www.pikcells.com

[arqrenderz]

You guys have something secret, those shaders and lighting are always perfect!
Nice  project, nice compositions and interior decor!

[Pikcells]

Thanks arqrenderz

[d.sign]

Wow, magnificent set of images. Every single one exhibit great attention to every detail and all are equaly interesting and convincing. It is difficult to point out any specific aspcet, light, materials, details, decoration... Maybe, just maybe I would put spot on the shaders, but more as integral part of the overall effect. Like the wall shader on 2nd image that play along with highlight from the lamp... Can you tell a bit about light you used? Is it hdri or corona sun/sky... I love how clean the shadows of soft/diffuse daylight appear, not sure if there is some secret, but could be... Do you use portals in openings?

[Jpjapers]

Really nice work. Looks like there's a lot more than meets the eye going on here with regard to lighting. Am i right?

[mferster]

Well I think you definitely accomplished your goals, the doors really pop in each image! The only things I could criticize is the pink couch in the first image looks a little goofy for the space and it looks weird how short the windows are in that image. Great job regardless though

[Pikcells]

Thanks for the comments from everyone. Just to answer a few questions about the lighting, we don't use sun and sky systems or HDRI. It's mainly about using the lightmix tool and placing individual light and reflectors like a photographer would. We do use a few directional profiles which simulate photography lights better, but it's mainly about having the understanding of the light placement. We made a video a couple of years ago that might help.

[iancamarillo]

Awesome! Thank you

[Jpjapers]

Thanks for the comments from everyone. Just to answer a few questions about the lighting, we don't use sun and sky systems or HDRI. It's mainly about using the lightmix tool and placing individual light and reflectors like a photographer would. We do use a few directional profiles which simulate photography lights better, but it's mainly about having the understanding of the light placement. We made a video a couple of years ago that might help.


<snip>

It's certainly an interesting approach.
One question I have though. Is this the approach you guys take for all projects? Or just catalog style ones where you're working with a client that is used to studio photography but making the transition into CG?

I had a discussion at work a few months back regarding this and I rather like working with natural light and real-world lighting values for the most part because I often think it gives a good photographic base for a client especially if we are going for photorealism in the space for someones home renovation for example. But i can see how this method can be useful to replicate studio photography for sure!