Austrian Countryside

[dbibb]

Thanks for all the kind responses!

jonahhawk: The West End was done with a real helicopter. We spent a lot of time stabilizing and camera matching the footage and its still not perfect. Do they make RC helicopters big enough for a camera? The footage was shot in HD, so we had enough extra footage to stabilize with.

gilpo: if we were just doing the stills, we would have done the background in photoshop. But because we had the animation as well, we did it all in max. The background panorama had the sky removed with an alpha, and was mapped to the inside of a huge sphere. This allowed the vray sky to shine through. We balanced the levels and saturation with an output map and a colorcorrect map. It worked so well that I didn't even render out a glass pass and screen it on top in photoshop like I normally do. The animation was also done without separate passes.

The stone wall with wire is called gabion. Credit goes to Shaun for that material. He used displacement, and the metal cage is modeled.

[giraffe]

very nice works- congrats
I agree about over-saturation on wood floor.

[^Lele^]

Really nice, but two things stand out to me: the repetitive pattern of the ivy, and a general splotchiness in the IRMaps.
Nothing major, it doesn't detract from the good job.

[ShaunDon]

Agreed on the noisiness, Lele... between the displacement and the increased visibility of the GI light with gamma correction, we didn't do as great a job getting clean settings. We'll get it right next time!

[priad]

The exteriors are excellents! congrat's, that's rare to see exteriors better than interior and you have done that.
I agree about the ivy

[fourthand11]

Great job Shaun and Derik.

I had to render that gabion system a couple years ago, I like yours better. Congrats.