Hey Guys,
First post, been lurking here for around a week although i signed up a little while ago. I had been hearing great things about Corona so decided to give it a try myself. I had this project that i had put together with Vray, just a personal piece and i thought it was perfect to give Corona a run. Its a private house called Casa Gaspar in southern Spain by architect Alberto Campo Beaza. Apologies for the lack of externals, i tried the corona scatter but it was too simple to convert my Forest Pack foliage scattering and i haven't updated my license for that yet.
I love coronas GI quality and the relative speed to quality ratio, i had to work much harder to achieve similar with Vray. It was seriously enjoyable and addictive to work with and felt much more free to create for some reason. Planning to stick with Corona and looking forward to see how it progresses!
I did have some niggles that i experienced and things that i missed from my Vray workflow, namely Vrays directional AO bias for nice masks for drips would have been handy when creating the white render material. I also had a problem with getting light to cast through an excluded object (i.e. a corona light inside a diffuser not casting through the excluded lamp diffuser that was set up with a Corona light material just for self illumination). This is probably more user error as it was my first bash with corona. Other than those its been a pleasure working with Corona.
Some simple post production, nothing drastic though. The renders straight out were great and only did some minor bits and pieces like slight colour adjustments etc. There is still some noise kicking about, one or two could maybe have had longer in the oven. Especially the close up shot of the Glass pear, i had to use noise reduction to help clear some, but i only rendered it for an hour.
Any way, hope you like them. :D
