Oak Park

[glorybound]

This one is going to be watercolorish, however, here they are so far out of V-Ray.

[glorybound]

One of ten.. good grief, this is going to take me forever.

[glorybound]

Great render times. 4K with trees, grass, gravel, displacement, and reflections on everything in 4 hrs.

[glorybound]

House 2 - I am not sure the wet asphalt works in this one. This one only too 3 hours at 4K.

[flino2004]

I don't think the wet asphalt works in any of those houses.
there is something with the mood of the scene that is not working as well

[glorybound]

I don't think the wet asphalt works in any of those houses. there is something with the mood of the scene that is not working as well

I would agree on the wet road. So far, house 2 is the only one you see the road on (on these set of proofs), so I'll probably change the road. Currently, I am rendering out 3, which the road doesn't show. The end deliverable on these is a watercolor filter, so I can't have dark shadows; I'm using an HDRI with little contrast .

[glorybound]

I am going to rethink this... Maybe, I'll add a V-Ray Sun and lighten up the shadows, in post, for the watercolor. This way, the client gets what she wants and I can use it for my portfolio, too. Updates to come.

[flino2004]

The asphalt doesn't look realistic maybe is why... Too many spots of water and very well defined.
I really like what you have done before for your exteriors but these ones are weird looking.... Very CG in my opinion.

[glorybound]

The asphalt doesn't look realistic maybe is why... Too many spots of water and very well defined. I really like what you have done before for your exteriors but these ones are weird looking.... Very CG in my opinion.

I'm reworking them, so I'll post updates later today.

[3DMK]

Roof textures are very Flat Bobby...maybe some displacement would help??

[glorybound]

Roof textures are very Flat Bobby...maybe some displacement would help??

they do have displacement 😒

[glorybound]

Here are the final deliveries. It would take a lot more work to make them photo-real, however, they wanted the watercolor feel. I might return to these, if I have time, just for my own pleasure.

[glorybound]

And, the last 5 images.

[glorybound]

Although these are not Photo-real, I used V-Ray, and I am very pleased with things. I had two previous projects, both done in V-Ray, but both were started in an earlier version and upgraded to the latest, mid-stream. This project, I had anticipated long render times, however, the render times were outstanding. The two previous projects did not render nearly as fast as I was hearing on line; this project rendered in record times. The scene consists of 10 house, all with displacements, several Forest Pro elements, and DOF on every camera view (probably a waste of render time for these). Each still 1920 x 1080, rendered in about 35-45 minutes and 4K was 2-3 hours. For the finals, since they were going to be watercolor'ish, I only rendered them at 1920 x 1080 and doubled the size in Perfect Resize 9. I used a watercolor filter and a Pencil filter (the above images are prior to adding a pencil filter over the watercolor) inside FotoSketcher. The V-Ray setting were pretty much out-of-the -box. I changed it to adaptive and turned on GI.

[Nicinus]

Love them! You're a machine.