architectural interiors & exteriors

[themaxxer]

great work! great light! great!

would share the settings from 60's residential?

what kinda color mapping did you use for the first interior?

thanks in advance
themaxxer

[Theobarbosa]

Hi, I liked a lot of the lamp over the table, on 1st and 2nd image, how you did that light?

Thanks

[JAxel]

First of all - thanks for all the nice words - and yes the images are scaled down to 1/3 of their render size with heavy Photoshop post, giving some AA trouble.

Second some answers:
cocolas: These images were rendered over the last two or three months.

Mattman: I have issues when it comes to asphalt! Never been able to make a material that could go for asphalt.

niksoftarg: The glass in the windows. Since a VRay glass tends to go a bit dark, I use a black standard material with an opacity of 5. Then a Fallof map in the reflection slot with a VRay map with fresnel fallof. All trees are post... Nothing nifty

themaxxer: color mapping for the two first interiors are dark:1,7
and bright:0,9 with Exponential Color mapping, medium blue environment multiplier at 1,55 and an orange Sun with a multiplier of 3,0.
60's residential:
first difuse bounce: 1,0 sec. dif. bounce: 0,35
direct comp.: 1 & 2
Environment: light blue 1,0 Sun at 1,2 light orange
Linear color mapping 1,0 & 1,0

Theobarbosa: There is a VRay light (sphere) placed and sized like the bulb would be. Multiplier is until it looks right...

[niksoftarg]

thanks a lot for the info, keep showing us your pictures they´re great!

[samifox]

Its awsome!

I like the lighting.... have you used portal skylight in concert with VRay skylight?

S

[JAxel]

have you used portal skylight in concert with VRay skylight?

No portal light. Normal invisible VRay lights in the window (same size as)to generate just a little more light.
Interesting enough the quality of the GI solution changes dramatically when you put up a light like that. The overall imagecontrast gets much better as well as better GI with less samples.

This image is made basically the same way:

(no glass in windows - the client didn't wan't any reflections to block the view...hmmm.)

[stellar]

hi,

great images you've got there

my fave is the night exterior, i loved the lights

what GI computation method did you use ?

by saying "direct comp 1 & 2" do you mean direct computation for first diffuse and secondary bounces ?

[flipside]

No portal light. Normal invisible VRay lights in the window (same size as)to generate just a little more light.
Interesting enough the quality of the GI solution changes dramatically when you put up a light like that. The overall imagecontrast gets much better as well as better GI with less samples.

This is because these vraylights cast area shadows, the look like GI shadows because they are so soft, but they are just raytraced shadows. This is a very good trick for lighting interiors, I think it's the only way to get good lighting without the need of very high IR settings.

[easee28]

hi

Jaxel, very nice and demonstrative works, i 'm starting learning vray(i use normaly brazil) and i would like 2 know if you have used photon map in these pics, if yes, why?
Thanx 2 answer 2 my newbee's questions.

[davis]

nice images you've got there guy...... i am hoping to become as good as you are... soon..
davis

[Magedeth]

I really like everything about your work.. the way of using lights and digital photography composition.. excellent!
The last interior is amazing congratulates
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[samifox]

Hi

Jaxel, what is your specific workflow. Do you import architect student’s Cad files and assign lighting, materials and environment reflection for their final representation?

And by the way, the last picture you post is nice, I like it, but something wrong with environment, outside its look cloudy day but inside its look typical summer day.

[radimek]

the sixties setting

I love your shodow septhss on that one. What light fo you use for sun. My shadows end up usually much lighter and so the image lacks contrast. Also, how do you get such nice reflextions in the windows (i experimented with enviroment and vray enviroment and never can get anything close to yours.

Great work and nice architecture as well.

R

[maxi3dvn]

@JAxel: I never get smooth, absolute white wall in interior render (since I'm living in tropicque? ) Can you post the material for white wall?

[maxi3dvn]

again, I love the white in Richard Meier's works.