Old house in Athens

michaliszissiou · 22 Jan 2010, 23:49

Almost ruined now, very dirty from smoke, heavy traffic there.
Modeled in SU and blender, UV + texture painting in blender, rendered in SU+podium. PP just for lens flare, levels and frame.

And a blender internal render.

marked001 · 22 Jan 2010, 23:58

really nice.. just goes to show you what you can do with the right texturing!

michaliszissiou · 23 Jan 2010, 01:44

Yeah marked you maybe right.
Here's a watercolor style, combined four different SU raw 2d exports and 20 min photoshop. Well, my favorite.

oalexis · 23 Jan 2010, 06:00

I really like that last one, it looks great!

david57 · 23 Jan 2010, 07:21

Nice work on the materials.

chrisjk · 23 Jan 2010, 07:57

I like the rendered stonework in the first image and the woodwork in the Blender image best. However, the windows in both are rather flat and dull compared to the PS version.

michaliszissiou · 23 Jan 2010, 12:44

Thanks, this one is the final I think. Its a combination of a podium render, a raw SU export (different lighting) and a cut out. Just had a walk with my camera, searching for the appropriate figure.

chrisjk · 23 Jan 2010, 14:28

The building and the man are terrific but I liked the sky in the Blender version best.

nevets2001uk · 25 Jan 2010, 10:15

This is really impressive and very realistic. How do you take a SU model into Blender? One of the main areas I'm finding SU lacks is texturing and I'd like to learnt to use Blender for this.

olishea · 25 Jan 2010, 11:01

nice work michalis. the man is very well integrated. lovely texturing.

majid · 25 Jan 2010, 18:14

I love texturing, mate

michaliszissiou · 27 Jan 2010, 00:47

Thanks Oli, Majid, chrisjk, nevets2001uk.
@nevets2001uk, have a look here.
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=24188&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
To be fair with blender renderer, here it is, PPed in blender internal using nodes, combining two render passes. Its this kind of watercolour-style (like Andrew Wyeth's technic), that I'm after.

michaliszissiou · 5 Jun 2010, 12:22

Just tested the new SU Podium V2 Beta .44 for Mac. No separate bump maps support yet, but color and light dynamics are superior.

Edson · 5 Jun 2010, 12:27

great stuff as usual, michalis.

skyscraper100 · 5 Jun 2010, 14:11

great house! very well done.

Bryan K · 6 Jun 2010, 03:37

Excellent renders! I really the ones with the trees and the man.

michaliszissiou · 7 Jun 2010, 17:03

Thanks edson, skyscraper100, ecofeco.
Another test of su podium v2 mac, some small edit in presets, some better understanding on hdr export. Goodbye magenta like v2 lighting.

olishea · 7 Jun 2010, 20:41

wow, i mean seriously !!! yeah whats with the magenta? so you saying its not present with hdr export?

michaliszissiou · 7 Jun 2010, 21:34

Export hdr only. Its a 32 bit format you can edit it. Have a look at these histograms.
SO oli, we have a magenta podium v2 and a green Twilight. A blue one is missing, or there is one ?

zbusheha · 10 Jun 2010, 09:54

Good functioning …