Down the stairs

holmes1977 · 29 Apr 2010, 05:12

Hi all

This is a 4 bedroom home of 3. The client wanted something moody and dramatic. I havent done many interior renders before. So found this quite hard. Tried to go for an early morning feel.

Would love to hear would you think. All crits welcome

stereofidelic · 29 Apr 2010, 10:43

I love the light and the morning atmosphere. Could totally see my self walking down the stairs early in the morning and drink the coffee in that warm kitchen...

Frederik · 29 Apr 2010, 11:09

Bravo... Excellent render...!!
What render app did you use...??

olishea · 29 Apr 2010, 11:56

looks like vray. bloody beauty holmes. stunning. so is this just sunlight? wow

the only thing i could possibly say is just get the verticals vertical...they're only slightly off and would take 1 minute to correct. you really notice it when you place a few images together on a drawing sheet

xrok1 · 29 Apr 2010, 15:38

amazing!

solo · 29 Apr 2010, 15:40

Jonathan, thats an awesome render, well done mate.

I think you hit the mood just right.

The only thing that caught my eye was the shadows filtering in do not include vegetation, obviously you added it in post edit right?

Landie · 29 Apr 2010, 17:06

I'm always impressed by these top end PR images. The lighting quality is beautiful. But for me its the composition and the frame proportion I really like. My eye flows around the image easily landing on the bright spot. No eye catchers in the wrong place.

dale · 29 Apr 2010, 17:10

Elegant design, elegant materials,elegant render.

cadmunkey · 29 Apr 2010, 19:03

Love it Jonathan, a job well done. How long for rendering time, it looks real clean.

holmes1977 · 29 Apr 2010, 20:25

@frederik said:

Bravo... Excellent render...!!
What render app did you use...??

To render I used Vray. I had to render two separate images. I had to render the interior, then secondly the trees for the exterior. I have find this an easier and quicker method. I then compiled in PS.
@olishea said:

looks like vray. bloody beauty holmes. stunning. so is this

just sunlight? wow

the only thing i could possibly say is just get the verticals vertical...they're only slightly off and would take 1 minute to correct. you really notice it when you place a few images together on a drawing sheet

Cheers Oli.
Your right I'll change the verticals and yes the only lighting was the sun.

@solo said:

Jonathan, that's an awesome render, well done mate.

I think you hit the mood just right.

The only thing that caught my eye was the shadows filtering in do not include vegetation, obviously you added it in post edit right?

Quite right Pete, like I said before. The trees were rendered separately. I didn't render them all in one go, because I have found that the RAM usage goes beyond SU's capabilities forcing a crash, Maybe i COULD LOWER THE TREE LEVEL SO THAT IT LOOKS LIKE THE SUN POURS OVER THEM.(whoops didn't mean to shout) cheers for the advice.

holmes1977 · 29 Apr 2010, 20:38

@cadmunkey said:

Love it Jonathan, a job well done. How long for rendering time, it looks real clean.

Thanks Cadmunkey. The render time was 41mins for the interior and 5mins for the trees which I then compiled in PS. Thats why I have started to love Vray. Get the right setting and it cranks. There are alot of material all with very high settings.

pibuz · 29 Apr 2010, 21:28

The render is VEEERY ggod, congratulations!
The outer vegetation is nice too: formfonts'?
I think the only thing hard to understand is the reflection of the left windows we see in the corner of the glass handrail, in the low-center of the image: it was difficult to understand what was going on there

The kitchen is cute, and the metal reflecting the sun rays really gives a feeling!

dermotcoll · 29 Apr 2010, 22:37

Absolutely stunning render - love everything about it - well done!

Stinkie · 29 Apr 2010, 22:49

@holmes1977 said:

I havent done many interior renders before. So found this quite hard.

Good job, though. Minor crit: it may need some punch added in PS. Other than that, excellent work.

Richard · 29 Apr 2010, 23:23

Yeah great job!!!!!!!

Have some crits as always!

I agree with Oli the verticals need to be corrected that bit, oli makes a good point when more than one image appears on drawing or in print it really is important to consider verticals! I've just done a large print catalogue and all the renders were from another architect and 14 images supplied needed to be post corrected in PS. Although some of the results looked a little weird - the use of off vertcal images would have ruined the page!

Likewise with Stinkie's suggesting hit the curves in PS to punch the image out a bit, for me the feeling at present is more afternoon or if morning as I came down the stairs I'd be not so excited as the day may produce some crooke weather! Red sky at night sailor's delight, red sky in morning sailor take warning! Meaning the morning sun I would feel be brighter!

In PS easy to pump it up via curves - open curve editor, Edit > adjustment > curves and then pull at 1/4 down line slightly left and 1/4 up from bottom slightly right! This is quick workaround to pull up any dull photo!

bytor · 30 Apr 2010, 02:58

Amazing image Jonathan!!

My only crit is a little pet peeve of mine.......floor / ceiling structure is way too thin. As a point of reference - the top bolt location on the railing posts essentially would be below the finish level of the upper floor. Most people won't even notice, but unfortunately once I do I have a hard time moving my eye away from it - thinking that maybe there is something else going on there that I am missing.

Dean