Graticule House

[BBB3]

It's been a while since I've posted a fully formed personal project... and this is not it.

This started with the best of intentions but I could never get it quite finished, furnishing-wise. But the house itself, inspired by David Jameson Architects, is pretty much how it should be, while the landscape is about 75 per cent there. Still, I doubt I'll dig into it again, so here it is anyway.

As usual, modelled in 3ds Max and rendered in Vray. The scene was used as a test environment for GrowFX trees (all of them are) and as a display cabinet for recent furniture models, which, as always, you can grab at the usual address.

Here are a few renders and you can find the full sequence of images here.

As always, very much looking for your C&Cs

[rmejia]

Really nice work, I saw the first image and thought I was looking at a photograph forgot for a moment I was in the chaosgroup forums!

[armilla]

Incredible work! I never cease to be amazed by the quality and realism of your work, it's inspirational. Thanks for sharing.

[KAKTUSDIGITAL]

simply stunning! a real inspiration! btw, is the DOF in 3dsmax or done in post?

[bob-cat]

Fantastic work as always. My only comment is that the trees look out of scale to the house in the first 2 shots (ie. too big).

[oligophant]

Good work bertrand,i liked the wood and chrome materials.

[PIXELBOX_SRO]

Perfect touch as always Bertrandt!!!! Love it!

apart from using GrowFX....what have you used for the grass scattering? Multiscatter or Forest Pack?

Congrats!

[eyebee]

Love it, really nice work as always, Bertrand !
By the way, i need to set up exactly a wooden floor like yours, would you mind telling me how (textures, material) you did that ? This is really looking absolutely convincing.

[AJ Jefferies]

Beautiful! You have fantastic skills.

[rivoli]

quality. if someone was to ask what's the state of the art in arch viz today, you might as well point him to this thread..

[ozztheforester]

amazing work! can you please share with us some wireframes, especially from the exteriors?

[BBB3]

Thanks a million for the kind words. They mean a lot.

KAKTUSDIGITAL: The DOF in all the images was done in-render. I always leave it "on", though it obviously doesn't show that much in the wide-angle exteriors.

bob-cat: You might be right about that. I scaled the trees up a bit, partly to add drama and partly to match the rather gigantic trees I was looking at in the reference photos.

PIXELBOX_SRO: I think it was my first biggish scene using only Forest Pro for scattering. It worked flawlessly.

eyebee: I would normally model such a floor using the Floor Generator script and the Multitexture plugin. However I really didn't want any space between the planks in this case so I went for the now defunct BRIX plugin. You could do this with the floor generator by setting up a zero bevel though, but all this geometry might be overkill in this case.
On a side note, it looks like BRIX is neither going to be maintained any further nor recompiled for 2012, which is a real shame given how great a tool it was. Because of this, I will have to drop it as a tool. I believe recompiling work is underway for the Multitexture plugin (whithout which the Floor Generator script is pretty pointless).

ozztheforester: Sure, I'll upload some wires asap.

[eyebee]

Thank you very much, bertrand. i am trying the floor generator and multitexture right now. Thomas suurland said, it will be recompiled for 2012 soon. so i end up using 2011 again.
These are really helpful scripts, but i had to generate my own planks textures.

[BBB3]

Well, Thomas has some great plank textures for sale on CGSource. They well worth the investment.

[prateekvishwa]

Awesome! .. well composed scene.. superb lighting. Though i wonder wht kind of machines do you use for rendering so complex scenes??