Finished ArchViz work

[sandmanninja]

Here are some of my ArchViz renders.

I'd like to thank K.L. for good advice and for making a really great ArchViz intro tutorial.
I'd like to also thank OlBlue for all of his tutes.

[Frobisher]

Fantastic work on these images. All very high quality. In particular I like the sofas and chairs you have created. The style and materialsyou have used on those look great.

[sandmanninja]

Thanks!

Max 2009 Design & Mental Ray, Global Illumination and Final Gather, AO passed comp'd in Photoshop.

My favourite is the close-up of the armchair with the sunlight falling on the back & arm and you can see all the juicy wrinkles in the texture.

I used a leather texture with a deep AO layer to really bring up those details.

These renders aren't perfect and I think I could have done better (now that I've done them the first time), but I'm proud of 'em.

It was a real bitch to get rid of the moire pattern in the blinds. I had to render twice as big as I wanted then reduce the size in Photoshop. The pattern is still there in the smaller images, but not nearly as bad as when I started.

The iPlan really ties all the renders together, making it feel they are all part of the same house. I try to 'overlap' also, so that you can see 'beyond' the room that has your attention. So, in the living room, you can see the master bedroom in the background. In the kitchen/family room, you can see down the passage and see the globe (which is really a map of the Moon, not the Earth! hehe) and the side table near the entry. Once again reinforcing the 'this is the same house' mindset.

Thanks again guys...

[Palusko]

Excellent work. For most part it looks very realistic too. The only image I am not sure of is the image of the kitchen, where through the glass door all you see is a brick wall. I don't like that wall, and also the red under the cabinets looks - well, I am not sure what it is. I like the next picture of the kitchen taken from a different angle much better. All other renders look really good. Modeling, materials, lighting - it all looks very compact, with no particular weakness. Great job.

[Firestorm]

That is some really great work there sandman.

[Fome]

The only thing I didn't like was the the fact that there was no form of lights in the kitchen or family room besides the oven light and windows.

the rest looked great, very professional work

Where did you get those great pictures of the ships for the living room?

[MaccaAko]

Nice...

What I would do in the IPlan would be to render a 360 panorama view. When selling appartments here in Finland some agents have started using 360 views (much similar to Iplan) where the red dot is the camera position. Then you can pan around the room. Quite cool, could be something even though I asume the load time of the site would suffer alittle if bigger pictures where used. But you could probobly solve that with splitting them and have the Flash pan them one after the other. Just a thought!

/Macca

[Bertie]

Bloody hell you've come a long way from when you joined 3DP, nice work!

One crit - second to last image the rise on the duvet (right hand side of the bed) looks a bit high - could do with being lowered/removed.

[sandmanninja]

Originally Posted by MaccaAko

Nice...

What I would do in the IPlan would be to render a 360 panorama view. When selling appartments here in Finland some agents have started using 360 views (much similar to Iplan) where the red dot is the camera position. Then you can pan around the room. Quite cool, could be something even though I asume the load time of the site would suffer alittle if bigger pictures where used. But you could probobly solve that with splitting them and have the Flash pan them one after the other. Just a thought!

/Macca

Here is an unused link to what you've described:
Virtual Interiors

I wasn't happy with the result, so I never used it. Maybe if I drop the flash slideshow it would look better.

I'm a huge fan of spherical 360's.

Feel free to grab the spherical and push it up, down, and around.

I did a quicktime version as well, but quicktime and 64-bit OS from Windows don't play nice together.

There's no AO on this 360 - I didn't pretty it up.

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Yeah, I wish I had put some additional secondary lighting in the kitchen. After a while, I got sick of looking at it.
I'm not sure what happened to the view outside. I modelled an entire rear yard with picket fence, grass and all, but it never really came up well.

I found the paintings on image google.

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The red brick wall - well, there's a wall there. If you look at the floorplan from the iPlan on my website, you'll see there's like a Study there. That's the rear wall from the Study. That red in the kitchen is a glass backsplash. I've seen tile used a lot there, too, but this builder uses a glass backsplash.

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I stuffed a loft/sweep up in the masted bedroom for the upper cornice at a corner of the walk-in robe (closet). I had it snap to the wrong vert. Wow, I never noticed that until just now. heheh

The ensuite... well, you can see a better peek into it in the 360-degree spherical. I'll put a render of it (eventually) in the iPlan. The real bathroom has the very strong, bright tile pattern/colour. The shower with a glass partition is reflecting some ceiling lights.

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Bertie, Firestorm and all - thanks very much. It means a whole lot coming from you guys.

[Billabong]

Nice job Joel, very nice job, My only crit would be that the hotspots above the lights, looks a little to hot, but that's just my opinion, other than that, it looks fantastic