Ponce House (image heavy)

[BBB3]

Hi guys,

This is my take on Ponce House, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Chilean architect Mathias Klotz.

I tried to stay faithful to the original but had to take some liberties owing to the lack of reference material for some aspects of the house.

I worked on this over several months in my spare time. The final images (about 3,000 pixel wide) took about a week in total to render because of the high poly count, high-ish resolution and settings. Individual render times ranged from 5 to 12 hours on eight cores. There’s a tiny bit of post-prod but much less than I would normally use.

The assets are all mine except the Macbook (free Turbosquid model), the B&B garden furniture, which was downloaded from the company’s site (I originally wanted to model these, but the manufacturer’s 3d files were so good I didn’t see the point), and some of the bigger trees.

Software used: 3ds Max 2010, VrayScatter 2.5.7, and (obviously) Vray 1.5 sp4a.

The last image shows four crops from the full-resolution renders.

[rmejia]

Wow, very nice work, stunning renders!

[Janosik]

cool green parts of image cai i see settings of grass or leafs ?

[simmsimaging]

Great work. The vegetation is really good, but the interiors are my favourite. Impressive.

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[add101]

Stunning! Awesome vegetation! Very photographic quality.
I'm curious to know how you did the grass? Looks so organic.

[dlparisi]

Beautiful inspiring images.

[voltron7]

Wow, those are amazing! I love the toadstools

[pskdude]

Great images, i enjoyed them very much. Nice landscape. It feels like it has some post work, some kind of slight grain or noise ? looks nice nevertheless. =)

Any shot you can pm me your method or how you created your pool water.. It looks fantastic. =) never been able to get that feel. The handrail shot. =P

[re:FORM]

Argh, stunning! A great inspiration. Thanks for posting!

[Donald2B]

I'm speechless! These have a fantastic, organic feel to them. I have to agree with simmsimaging about the interiors. Absolutely stunning!

[BBB3]

Thanks for the warm words, guys. Much appreciated.

Janosik: Here are the leaf settings. In this case, I've rebuilt the material of an Evermotion tree from scratch using the provided maps. It's plugged into a 2sided mat as you can see. I think the key there is the relatively strong reflectivity and lowish glossiness. All the foliage materials were done this way, whether on the commercial or hand-made vegetation, to make sure the hues all matched and no tree or plant stood out too much.

Add101: The grass is done using Vray Scatter. It's pretty much the same workflow described by Peter Guthrie in his tut with only minor differences: I'm using a rather small "basic-coverage" grass proxy for uniformity plus a couple of other, bigger elements scattered more sparsely (long grass, clover, daisy, dead leaves, weeds), all hand modelled and using big B&W maps for distribution. The really important element, though, is a colour map (see low-res version below, grabbed from Google Earth) UV-ed over the entire ground plane and plugged into the VrayScatterTexture slot. This gives really natural looking colour variations to the grass, which reflect variations in the soil.

PSKDude: Thanks man. Very little post work here. Basically just colour correction, a little CA and the odd glow. The grain you see, I'm afraid, is noise.
As for the pool, it's a very basic material (see screengrab below). Just a wave map and a noise map (both small amplitude) plugged into a BerconDistortionMap and used as bump. No displacement, caustics or anything too fancy.

[rivoli]

quality. amazing work, all images are good but I find the work on the vegetation really stunning. it's inspiring to see such quality and dedication.

[mcnamex]

SWEET Bertrand

[Chris]

Speechless..... Man I am really becoming a huge fan of your work! The natural feel of those renders are amazing.

[pskdude]

Thanks so much !, wow i really gotta learn to use the node joe, seems real useful and organized. I appreciate your feedback. And again great work!