High-rise rendering

[paraganek]

Hi guys,

I am working on a short animation of this high-rise, this is a preliminary rendering, I am still tweaking materials to achieve more realistic look of the facade and reflections. Righ now I am using HDRI map both for GI and reflections and glossy reflections for that "alucobond-like" panels material. Any suggestions how to improve the materials ?




Please comment

[suitaloon]

Am I wrong or will we see a lot of renderings with Natty's fabulous silver material? It's kind of ood to see it applied so ssystematically on the whole tower. Maybe a little variation with a less reflexive and shiny material every once in awhile would outline the details...

[natty]

looks cool ...you need to watch your verticle lines.. and i think you may need to increase the subdivs inthe material.. looks grainy

[paraganek]

Thanks guys for the comments

As for the vertical lines, I always watch for them in stills, this is going to be a 40 second animation and the camera is looking up most of the time so I can not avoid this distortion.

Anyway, I have decided for a twilight scene finally, here is another test frame (low AA, low samples).

[paraganek]

OK, so it is shaping up. One more shot from the end of the camera path. All comments welcome.

[J_Bug]

Looking really good. The interior adds allot

--Jon

[paraganek]

Well, I think I am done. Please let me know about any improvements you can think about before I start rendering the whole animation. Thanks

[reza]

The last image need a little bit of adjusment...the view looks like its distorted too much..usually this kind of view is suitable from ground to up but not halfway from the middle...repair the prespective a little...try to get 1 of the corners straight.

[paraganek]

Thanks Reza, that's a very good comment ! I will fix that.

[J_Bug]

I think you may have some errors inside on the ceiling of some of the floors. I can't see the images now for some reason.

--Jon

[paraganek]

j_bug : what kind of errors do you see ? just to explain the interior geometry a little bit - the ceilings are just flat slabs with some irregular lighting pattern mapped on them.

[calvino56]

I think J_Bug means the ceilings, some are illuminated nicely and some are solid black.

[J_Bug]

Yes, the black areas are what I was talking about.

--Jon

[paraganek]

Actually, that has been done intentionally. I am trying to show some offices with the lights on and some others vacant, with the lights off. So that is why some ceilings are black.

[paraganek]

I have rendered out a couple of stills. This is one of them. Please comment.