New Portfolio CGi's - Hudson Valley House

[leehumphries]

Decided to work on some new CGi's for my portfolio. I found the Hudson Valley House photographs online and decided to try and replicate it.
More images coming but thought i would add these as a start.

All lit by Peter Guthrie HDRi only

Feedback appreciated

[francomanko]

looks awesome, did you do much post work on it?

[glorybound]

Very nicely done! I love the pillow close-ups.

[leehumphries]

francomanko everything was straight out of the vfb slight exposure adjust , highlight burn reduction, contrast boost - slight s-curve and a LUT.
Being honest render times were a nightmare to get a clean image

[M.Max]

Nice work!
I liked that little glow on the highlight

[francomanko]

what sort of rendertimes were you getting then?

[glorybound]

francomanko everything was straight out of the vfb slight exposure adjust , highlight burn reduction, contrast boost - slight s-curve and a LUT.
Being honest render times were a nightmare to get a clean image

For me, on interiors, two hours is what I am seeing for something clean enough and that is using the denoiser. It's clean earlier, buy too much loss in detail.

[leehumphries]

You might laugh and I am currently trying work out what made the render times so huge but the sofa scene took for a 4K image 20hrs progressive noise threshold 0.003 / dof etc on an i7 4930 so not the most powerful
in the end I just left it to render so I could work out what was making it so crazy - I think a lot of the issue was the net curtain which has refraction with a fabric map and the light coming through produces a shadow all over the internal
Once I've had time to look into it I'll repost

[hoppergrass]

out of interest, what are the render times using bucket rendering?

[leehumphries]

hoppergrass i haven't tried bucket rendering but I will take a look once I have time

[particlerealities]

.003 noise threshold is extremely low. Does the denoiser help at all at that point? Beautiful images, by the way.

[leehumphries]

Preferred to stay away from denoiser for this one as I sometimes feel it takes away some details and becomes a little overly clean

[glorybound]

You might laugh and I am currently trying work out what made the render times so huge but the sofa scene took for a 4K image 20hrs progressive noise threshold 0.003 / dof etc on an i7 4930 so not the most powerful
in the end I just left it to render so I could work out what was making it so crazy - I think a lot of the issue was the net curtain which has refraction with a fabric map and the light coming through produces a shadow all over the internal
Once I've had time to look into it I'll repost

Yowza! Those are 1990 render times. If you would like I can see how long it would take on my machine. Single machine with 72 cores and 128GB RAM.

[leehumphries]

glorybound haha sort of - yes my machine is def needing an upgrade. Only 12 cores and 64gb ram is 1990's. Although its done me proud.

[leehumphries]

Well a re-import into a clean scene has cleared all the long render times up so no idea what was going on there. 1.5 hours @ 4k on a single rebus machine - using 0.009 noise threshold and denoiser custom 0.7