How To Improve My Render And Les Post Work

[zack mierza]

Hi,

I'm new here and i would love to learn more about Twilight Render.Do anybody know how to get a good render and less post work in photoshop.Would be great if somebody could share a setting.. Thanks!

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[brodie]

If that's the look you're trying to achieve I think it would be quite difficult to get without a fair amount of post work. And to the extent that you COULD get it to look that way straight from a render engine, it would likely take much longer than your current setup. Many of the best archviz companies out there start with a horrid looking render and make it look great it post so it's a perfectly valid method. For the most part folks who want to get it 99% right in the raw render are going for photorealism which by in large is nigh impossible to achieve in post if you start with a substandard render. But if you like the stylized look, I'd question your original assumptions and ask, why you want to do less in post. If it's a time issue, you'll find the original assumption is false. If it's something else, then what?

-Brodie

[zack mierza]

Hi brodie,

Thanks for your comment, and yes the issue definitely time coz working in architectural field as 3d visualizer does
consume time.Most of it demands faster and at the same time good quality in result.thats why i'm asking if there's a way to get a better result in render but less in time.i know that in twilight render do take some time to render using a higher setting such as progressive setting.i normally used easy setting but high quality and it takes time to get a right feel and touch in the post work.i was hoping if there's a way maybe a better setting and if not, that means i have to stick to what iv'e done now but trying to make it faster..anyway thanks a lot

[andybot]

If there is an adjustment to make (like increasing saturation by a certain amount) for all your renders, you can always do a batch action on a set of images instead of one by one. That could save you time in post processing if you have a lot of images and there's a consistent adjustment you want to make.

[brodie]

I'm not familiar with twilight but maybe there are a few setting changes that can make the render faster but typically those come at the cost of quality which in tern will probably mean more post work. My point is simply that in general, if speed is your thing focus less on making the render look perfect and more on spending time in Photoshop with it.

Personally, that's not my thing. I don't care for the highly stylized look and favor more photorealism so I don't do tons of PS work. But my ways aren't the ways of most of the big companies out there cranking out tons of work and there's a reason for that.

-Brodie

[KathrynG]

Interesting reading, since increasing saturation in Twilight, but of the lighting only, has been a question of mine as well. I am not doing architectural renders, but special events, which sometimes requires soft lights and other times I need the sharp almost neon lights that go along with these types of events. For example, spot lights under palm trees in the Bahamas and which totally light up the underside of the fronds with a bright highly saturated light. For this reason I prefer the saturation settings in LightUp which gives you some really vibrant colours.