This is my latest project fully made in Corona renderer. Design is not made by me, I just grabbed photo I liked from the internet and tried to recreate it the best I could.
Settings:
PT+HD Cache PTS 64 MSI 20 LSM 1 HD PT Samples 1024, other settings are at their default values
Post processing is done in Magic Bullet and only basic adjustments (contrast, color balance..)
Image was rendered overnight set to 30 passes (render time roughly 5 hrs on my i3 laptop)
C&C warmly welcome
Nice image! Materials modeling and texturing are really nice. Personally I think it is not enough contrast, but I do like the sun shadows. Also I think that you could’ve used PT+PT for better results as you were going to leave it overnight anyway
it took some time to pick some new inspirations for rendering As I am a big fan of Lord of the rings trilogy as well as Hobbit I decided to remake beautiful corner of the Shire - Bag End
here is the first phase of the WIP - I finished main modelling and have done a rough clay render to see what thinks look like. One thing that is bothering me is my grass - I made it with modelling 5 blades of grass and then scattering it along the surfaces I needed. However it consumes waaay too much RAM when rendering..and I don´t quite know how to get rid of it.
-any C&C are warmly welcome
To solve the grass problem just prepare larger patches of grass first and then scatter them. If you scatter single blades you virtually kill all the memory savings of instancing
I like the first, non contrasted image. The other one felt too heavy for such a happy feeling scene But I also prefer to convoy a feeling rather than realistic renders.
You can always populate bigger areas with corona scatter and more detailed areas or borders you can paint manually using graphite modelling tools > object paint or your favourite plugin/script.
I think there are some things that would require just a little bit more time to look much better, for example:
shot 1:
-the lamp - wtf? is it capped? Looks like the normals are too smooth?
-tentacles crawling through the window?
shot 2:
-table shader - too matte
-bedcloth shader - too reflective
shot 3:
-water in glass looks unrealistic, generally to make realistic water in a glass in Corona you have to make the water geometry a bit bigger than the inside of the glass, it has to intersect with the glass geometry
-wood could be more reflective (including floor tiles)
thank you for your reply ..in 1st image there are not tentacles, just a branchces with yellow flowers in a glass which is not visible cause it´s behind a curtain
2nd image - all right I might look into it:)
3rd image - thanks for the tip! I had a tough time to figure out water look - firstly I modelled it with touching geometry - not good, and now i see it is not good with smaller geometry
concening post processing, what would you suggest? because these images are not raw renders - they are post processed
The images look “dull”, I think they lack contrast and are a bit underexposed. Maybe start by adding some subtle contrast with an s-curve? It needs some experimenting.
I´ve just finished a short movie presentation of my work shared above. Most of it is done in After Effects except all interior images They are from Corona. Enjoy!
Everything is happening sooo slooow and lacks dynamism. You could easily shorten the movie to 30 seconds or less with the same content.
The flashing-colourful-letters effect is just so “cheap”. As for my taste, it would be better even if you made simple white text with some standard fade effect and a nice font.
thank you Maru Every day I learn something new, and recently I started to learn After Effects and this is like after a 3 days of intensive learning so to be honest I am no professional. Your comments however may be good feedback for improving my work in the future. As for the text effect, I personally like it very much so I guess it´s more about personal preference, though you are maybe right about the dynamism thing
I love it !
It is really pleasing to see beautiful works especially from beginners / intermediate in this area !
We all remember how things looked with vray at novice level
Although, I more believe in personal’s “eye’s” capability to “see” like a PRO, rather in technical/software part of the process.
