Lighting/modeling Exercise

[StompinTom]

Before these start gathering too much dust, I may as well post them.

A simple modeling/lighting exercise with a simple scene, inspired by a sunny afternoon over the recent holidays. I did this in my spare time over a couple of days of tinkering around, trying to get past the laziness to model everything in proper detail to fit the mood.

I want to do a few more of these 'mood studies' to remind myself why I like arch. viz in the first place.

The last shot is what the whole little project is about. The other two are the last shot's illegitimate offspring.

Blender + Indigo + Photoshop (blending two different exposures)

[Borgleader]

One word: Win!

Nice work In the last shot I really like how the edges of the image are darker and it gradually lights up as you reach the center of the image (end of the hallway), I find the contrast to be really interesting.

May I ask you how you did your wallpaint material? It's really interesting.

[ritter]

Very nice work!

[pixie]

Great shots!

[Soup]

The last shot is really beautiful, add it to the gallery!

[CTZn]

Extremely nice Tom !

[Doug Armand]

Excellent stuff. really warm and sunny feel to them.

[zeitmeister]

Fantastic!
The very realistic details like the gaps between skirting board and floor etc. do it.

[hcpiter]

Awesome images ! Nice shots with dof !

[StompinTom]

Thanks, guys

Render times between 8-9 hours at 3600x2400, though with a fair bit of grain left.

[dcm]

i like it but tonemapping is too much "vivid" for my taste. i think wood could be more "lighter" and overal atmo little but "desaturated". Anyway, great skillz!

[Camox]

Lovely warm atmosphere. Tonemapping looks good for my taste, does not look so cold and sterile...

greetz

[dakiru]

I can even feel the atmosphere of the corridor on the third render. Very detailed. How did you make the wall paint? It is really nice and realistic for me.

[StompinTom]

Thank you very much! I hope I've somewhat succeeded in evoking a mood through the last shot, as that is what I believe good arch. viz should do: evoke the feel and personality of the space it attempts to depict.

The wall is a simple Phong material with a very low-contrast plaster map in the color channel, a wavy bulging (with some fine speckle detail) bump map and an exponent map that shifts between very low exponents (10 and 60 or so, I think), just enough to break up the uniformity of the surface and give the wall a bit of a sheen as real paint does.

All in all, the shot misses the whole point of its existence, which was a beautiful light pattern on the far wall, created by the sun reflecting off the door handle in the sunny room when I took the photo, however I went with the sun ray instead for now.

[Pibuz]

Ehi Thom: technical question.
I'm trying to explore a little the blendigo world: which versions of Blender, Indigo and Blendigo are you using? I'm looking for a quite stable release, but I'd like to have the latest software platforms too..