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    Hello,

    Here´s my final entry for the Evermotion Competition 2011 - interior category.
    Im very proud to win the second price in the first digital art competition I enter.
    Many thanks to all the support during the process. As a token of my gratitude I created a MAKING OF which you can read in my new site-blog at www.metrocubicoblog.com








    My inspiration object is the university (FAUP) where I studied architecture for six years. For a long time I wanted to represent the path that goes from the street till the end of the building complex which is the library itself. For timing reasons I couldn’t model everything of course, so I focused on a short part of that same path.

    Inspired by Michelangelo, Siza created a “difficult” path that goes through several ramps/stairs, sometimes almost labyrinth routes – if you use other alternatives – , in order to reach, in the end of all the complex, the library – the place of knowledge. “Tired”… once the library is reached, an uniform interior light hits the space like in no other place. It is, in my opinion, the perfect place to read mostly because the shadow is so soft. Geometry, fine details and remarkable human scale rule.

    The goal was to respect Álvaro Siza architecture simplicity, materials, light, design and obviously, make it photo-realistic.

    Software:
    3D Studio Max 2011, Photoshop CS5, After Effects CS5

    Plugins:
    Vray 2.0, RailClone Pro, Magic Bullet Looks, Knoll Ligh Factory, Nik Software

    All models made by me, except main books bought in TurboSquid - made by Bernardb Bernoir.
    Other architectural books are a share found in Evermotion - free stuff - made by Archithekthura.
    Hand drawings made by me.

    Some of the textures used are from:
    Cgtextures, Arroway textures, Cgsource, Viz People

    Sorry for the huge post lol.

    Thkx in advance,

    Jacinto Monteiro
    Last edited by CA Portugal; 02-06-2011, 04:35 PM.
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  • #2
    Absolutely supberb, as I said elsewhere. Congrats on your win!
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    • #3
      Congrats on the win, and on the great work. The images look amazing.

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      • #4
        Congrats man

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        • #5
          it's a beautiful set of images, great work.

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          • #6
            Thanks guys! Hope you find the making of useful. Any questions/doubts feel free to ask.
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            • #7
              Grate work. I have few questions...
              -what were your settings for DMC Sampler?
              -I don;t quite understand what did you do with Irridance map. Did you at the end just set for higher resolution IM from file, from pervious low res ?
              And if so I totally don;t get why did you set again IR min max to -5 -2 if you were using already IR from file? I don't think changing min max IM settings when rendering form file do anything.
              Last edited by lukx; 04-06-2011, 04:52 AM.
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              • #8
                Hi Lukx,

                I dont considerer myself a vray expert but ill try to explain.
                Yes, after rendering at a lower res i change to "from file" in both Irr and LC and changed to an higher resolution and also changed min and max rate from previous -3 0 to -5 -2 .
                Taking into consideration a description from Franscesco Legrenzi Vray guide. About min and max rate - the only irr settings that depend on the resolution. "A scene is rendered at a resolution of 640x480 pixels using the medium preset. After, the same scene is elaborated at a resolution of 1280x960 pixels, exactly twice as much. In this case ONLY Min rate and Max rate values are to be changed, bringing them from -3 and -1 to -4 and -2. The Clr thresh, Nrm thresh, Dist tresh and blur gi are the same in both resolutions." Page 240.

                Instead of Medium i used High preset and changed to a resolution four times bigger. I haven´t totally tested this exhaustively. Just used the book´s irr principles. I would love to understand this better but its something that is still kinda "new" to me.

                Ive used DMC 16.

                Hope ive helped and would be nice to know what others have experienced using min and max rate settings etc.

                Cheers,
                Jacinto
                Last edited by CA Portugal; 04-06-2011, 07:38 AM.
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                • #9
                  Sorry Jacinto I was asign about this :

                  Regarding your technique with rendering smaller IM and then rendering higher res from file with changing min max rate I'm pretty sure you misunderstood the description in the book.
                  I'm might be wrong but basically what you did (changing min max to -5 -2 ) has NO impact when rendering form file. Basically you can render smaller res with -3 , 0 and then render from file higher (without changing min max - because it doesn't do anything when rendering form file) OR you could render HIGHER res with -5 -2 and it's totally equal to rendering smaller res first and then higher form file.

                  Please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
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                  • #10
                    Lukx thank you for the input. I will considerer your info and edit my tutorial. I think you are right.

                    About the DMC.
                    If i remember well, ive used:
                    Adaptive amount: 0.75 Noise t.: 0,005 Global subdivs: 2,0

                    Thanks once again. Oh and almost forgot... love your work!!!
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                    • #11
                      Thanks man! Well, everyday we got to learn something. But I'm sure regardless of settings you would use your work would be spectacular anyway . It's not about the tools but the artist ! Again congrats on your win !
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                      • #12
                        i like alvaro siza's work as well as yours jacinto, very good shoots , keep on doing it
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                        • #13
                          Great imagery. Well done!
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                          • #14
                            Beautiful shots. Nice to watch.
                            Best regards,
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                            • #15
                              Marvellous! The 2nd image (I guess the main one) is really good, love the compostion.
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