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Floor pattern
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Finished interior model looked like that after only 6 hours of modeling, which we were surprised about, but probably due to symmetry we had to do a lot less work.
LIGHTNING
After we finished the model, we knew that this CGI will look stunning. We knew that the the image has to look dramatic with lots of light variety by setting temperature (warm and cold) and intensity (over and under exposed). To get that result we used Peter Guthrie HDRI - 2003 Dusk Map. As you can see on the image below we used lots of web photometric lights, some vray planes in the entrance and for linear light.
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Photometric lights and Vray planes
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And some wires to take a look at the model with total lightning and GI…
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Lighting
MATERIALS and TEXTURES
When the lighting and models were done we started to prepare the materials. The main materials in this image are very simple, cause we think that keeping it simple is the right way to go. Than if we want to add some dirt, noise etc. we do that in photoshop, but this image had to be very clean to convince buyers that the materials used for the furniture and fabrics are luxurious and top quality. Wall was covered with stone tiles. The texture was prepared with Brick'nTiles app. (https://www.bricksntiles.com/) from our limestone texture.
As you can see the walls don't have any reflection visible, but (as many of you know) most of the materials in our world have some reflection so we added just a little bit to it so that some details like noise, bump and joints would become more visible. Ok, so we've covered about 60% of the image with one material, how did it render so well? The answer is: details and lightning! In my honest opinion that's the key to good CGI. If you prepare very detailed model, the light will do it all.
Probably many of you won't agree with me but that's how we work and many of our clients appreciate the fact that we care about every detail. Maybe my architectural background shaped me in that direction... Therefore after modeling and setting the lights we had a short way to get to the final stage.
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Modeling and lighting done
Apart the wall stone, we worked a bit on the floor material. It's a simple marble collection, nice shapes with high gloss surface. To get a little variation we randomized by ID elements and gave different shades of grey :) to the reflection slot by multimaterial as well to IOR slot.
Another material is the one used in crystal chandeliers. We used simple Vray material with white diffuse and slightly off white refraction so that the refraction catch a bit of light. The Refraction IOR was set to 2,14. The main problem was to get the chandeliers very bright and glowing. To achieve that we had to place few light in the chandelier and outside to lit it and receive reflections but exclude from affecting the whole interior.
Other materials are really simple - just some wood and fabric textures with some small fresnel reflection and little bump.
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All textures for the interior. Apart form the furniture and paintings.
RENDER SETTINGS
Settings were cranked up a bit to achieve quite good irradiance map and the raytrace threshold was set to 1.0 to reduce light leaks. Apart from that I think it's quite simple :) I used a Hdr map in the set of Peter Guthrie (2003 Dusk Blue) plugged in to a vraydome light.
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Render settings
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...and more settings
POSTPRODUCTION
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Raw render
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A few basic steps like adding glow to light sources with lighten and screen mode in Photoshop.
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Adding curves
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Some colour balance and tweaking white tones
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Changing dull yellow tones to more warm by adding some red to it, a little more contrast and saturation to blue tones and here it is Final_final_FIN_version.png :D
All done in 2-3 working days including client's feedback.
You can also watch this short sequence we did to showcase our workflow :)
That's it!
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