Industrial loft and Scandinavian furniture

[BBB3]

A series of pieces done over several months as part of a training exercise. These are quite old by now but I just got around to posting them. Feedback and advice much welcome.
NOTE: The amazing EXR image used to illuminate the dusk shots was kindly provided by the excellent Peter Guthrie.

[snivlem]

I don't recognize your username here, but I've seen your work before and I recognized your style. You are able to get some amazing quality of light (especially 3rd picture).

May I ask if you do your whitebalance in the renderer or during post?

Very nice work as usual!

[jacksc02]

superb!
Nice lighting balance, and great attention to detail.

[thablanch]

Great stuff. The rendering quality in there is quite something. nice details, nice shoots and nice mood.

[rmejia]

Very nice work, I like the composition of the chair views

[BBB3]

Many thanks guys.

Snivlem: Thanks a lot. When using the physical cam, I always set the white balance to neutral and do my color correction in post. No specific workflow there, as it really depends on the image. Since I did these over a long period, they are also very different in settings - not homogenous enough perhaps to work well as a series.

[pengo]

very nice works
Really well done lighting very realistic, materials and compositions too
Congratulations

[simmsimaging]

Nice work. I agree with Robert - the chair shots are great and nice materials all around.

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[BBB3]

Thanks a lot. The praise is particularly valuable since it comes from the original Vray-materials masters!

EDIT: Stupidly forgot to post the reference for the interior. So here it is.

[3DMK]

GReat Work!

My only comment otherwise is the floor looks overbright & flat in most images.

To me it looks as if it is un-naturally white, and it seems that the GI is comimg out a bit flat because the white mat is bouncing too much light. I remember reading in a post on the forum that the most 'WHITE' material on earth is Snow which apparently only reflects 80% of the light that hits it . in that case your brightest material should be say approx 70% of 255 white. I have tried this theory a bit and it seems to work, giving a more realistic lighting solution especially when using Light Cache.

All the best

[BBB3]

Thanks a lot 3DMK.
The floor is in fact grey. But I think the lighting in some of the pictures, and perhaps more importantly, excessive of incompetent post-production on some of the images made it turn more white and washed out than it should have been.

[pixela]

I would like to know about your velvet material if you can talk about it.

The reflections on wood materials are with a Vrayblend material or simple vray materials?

Thanks in advance.

[BBB3]

Hi Pixela,
Sure. The wood differs from model to model, but it's generally only a simple VrayMat with different maps in the diffuse, reflection, glossy and bump slots. As for the velvet, it's a blended mat mixing a light and a dark version of the same fabric mat (diffuse and bump maps only - the diffuse map is tweaked using a color correction map), with a falloff map used as a mask between the two. You just need to play with the falloff ramp quite a bit before it looks ok.

[pixela]

Thanks for your reply
I didn't understand velvet material clearly.
I understood that:
diffuse map is a falloff map from dark velvet texture to a light velvet texture.

But I didn't understand:
1. Mask part
2. Aren't there any reflections on material?
3. What kind of bump map?

Would I ask too much if you can email me the material tree screenshot so I can see more clearly and I can see the textures you have used.

Thanks a lot.

[BBB3]

Hi Pixela,
I can post a nodejoe screenshot, but you'll have to bear with me for a while as I don't have access to the scene where I sit right now.

For the time being, the tree would look something like that:

Material 1:
Diffuse: Texture map A (generic velvet fabric, no falloff) + colour-corrected darker
Bump: Texture map B (generix velvet fabric, greyscale)
No reflection.

Material 2:
Diffuse: Texture map A + colour-corrected lighter
Bump: Texture map B

Final Material (VrayBlendMat)
Material 1 + Material 2
Distribution mask: Falloff texture with custom ramp that allows material 2 to appear at grazing angles.