Photo-Duplication

[beestee]

It is slow at work right now, so I decided to exercise my brain a bit

Found a stairwell photo here a while back that caught my eye:

http://www.archdaily.com/11731/turku...mm-architects/

Decided to attempt duplicating it:



I think I blew out the highlights a bit, but don't want to spend the extra 45 mins playing and re-rendering to fix it

Got about 4 hours in it including textures and model.

3DS Max 2011, VRay 1.5 SP5, Baked Gamma Workflow, and finally Photoshop CS5.

Here are some of the progress images:



Later!

[glorybound]

I think you nailed it!

[dmf-123]

Did you just map the image onto a plane and render it...?

Nice job.

[bob-cat]

The handrail in wrong......ha ha
Nice work.

For a little extra detail maybe drop some maps into the reflection slots.

[CA Portugal]

Imo had more contrast to your image. The shadows in the photo are much darker.
The browns/ yellows, in general, are stronger/darker in the photo. Also the blacks - your look a bit too grey.
I think the textures and the perspective are spot on.

Cheers

[beestee]

I think I have caused some confusion for you CA. I got a similar reaction at CGArchitect

You have to visit the arch daily link to see the original photo, since I didn't want to embed the original photo here without permission. Plus Arch Daily is a neat site to visit for inspiration anyways

Thanks for the tips and comments!

[BBB3]

I'm amazed how you could have so perfectly eyeballed the proportions. The geometry looks completely undistinguishable from the photograph.
If you want to push it one notch further, though, I would use some hand-painted displacement on the cast concrete. Look at how some of the bits are protruding slightly.