The Round Tower - Finished Images with your help!

[MoonDoggie]

Absolutely excellent images! Well done.

[Jonferimonic]

Awesome.

[EricCamper]

Love it....Reminds me of the WWII towers down on the beach in my hometown

[tom182]

Great Job SV

Wall textures are great

Tom

[sv]

tom182 - thanks.
your chandelier turned out great; can't thank you enough for that.
again thanks.

[Adam H. Stewart]

Fanatastic

Amazing work - I want to climb that tower and see what it looks like from above

I particularly like the water caustics in the daytime shots - I wasn't really paying attention to the building process are these done physically or cheated with a map - one way or the other they look spot on.

[lsega]

such a warm a comfortable feel to them all. very nice realism without being overly cluttered.

killer work my friend! Coming from maxwell it's really encouraging to see these images with this level of quality!

how long for some of these render SV? (if you don't mind my asking of course).

Best,

Luis

[DaForce]

Very nice renders!!

[Neilg]

Excellent work

Any post done?

[dlparisi]

Fantastic images!! The only thing that stands out are the white deck chairs and table. The material is probably as intended but it sort of looks like it has just a plain white vray mtl on it where everything else looks so detailed. I'm only nitpicking because the rest of the stuff looks so nice though.

[sv]

I particularly like the water caustics in the daytime shots - I wasn't really paying attention to the building process are these done physically or cheated with a map - one way or the other they look spot on.

The caustics were done physically with the VraySun. Really easy to setup, i think the only changes were search distance = 10, and max photons = 0.

how long for some of these render SV? (if you don't mind my asking of course).

The render times varied dramatically. The outdoor shots only have two lights (the sun and the sky), so rendered in about 45 minutes i think at 3500. The night internal shots were a lot more, (i think around 50+ lights with area shadows) so were about 6 - 8 hours at 3500 pixels. The only images that were the main problem were the shots in the courtyard looking through the house, as that 'cotswold stone rubble wall' is all displacement, and rendering at 3500 pixels, it took a while and a hell of a lot of memory at that res. i'm not sure exactly, but i had to use DR or strip rendering because of the f*cking bug in backburner 2007 - task timeout after 10 hours. God when will they fix that?
I'm sure they could be optimised a bit more, but the main culprits are a lot of displacement. I would have liked to drop the noise threshold a bit more (it was on 0.007), as some parts show some QMC noise.

Any post done?

actually no - apart from the sky in the evening shot looking at the tower (and the airplane trails i painted in photoshop.) They are all rendered straight to .exr, so i could tweek the exposure, but that was all. For instance i didn't change the camera settings from the night or day images - i just rendered the day shots way over exposed, but then just brought the image right back down into the proper exposure after. This was the only bit of post, no colour changes or hue changes for example - i did mess around with this, but then just scrapped it as i prefured vray's output to my own! The only thing i would like to see is what colour the sky would come out with 1.50.00, as these are done with RC4. I get the feeling the sky just isn't the right colour on the external shots looking back towards the tower....

[joconnell]

SV they're some of the most realistic outdoor shots i've seen - fantastic work.

[harperperkins]

I agree with joconnell, man, those exterior are excellent! All of them, well done images!

[werticus]

i think i remember seeing the draft images of this one?

looks awesome now - much more awesome than i remember REALLY awesome actually wow :P

[Ryan_Chiong]

Its really nice to to see what vray can do.
but it really frustrates me when client rejects such beautiful renders.
they prefer more like a stylized rendering like the old school type renderings.