Museum in Possagno

massimo

This is the new extension built by Carlo Scarpa in 1957 for Canova's works. The
light floods the rooms and hits the white sculptures in a wonderful way.

The basic model of the building was downloaded in Peter Guthrie's blog. Then I did some changes/additions and I populated it with the sculptures. Rendered with Thea. Sun+physical sky for lighting, just Thea's darkroom and no post pro with the exception of a resize.
Not much modeling by myself this time, sorry.

Box

Stunning.

Makes me think it's time I uninstalled my rendering plugin.

Bryan K

Very nice, but where are the renders?

edenux

Very nice skulptures. I like all images except first one, bad composition ant too much dark area I think. But its only my opiniom. And one more thing. That black splashes on the walls make all interiors not clean, walls are dirty. Maybe this is because of bad image sampling? try to increase value and then it will be perfect

massimo

Thanks guys.

@unknownuser said:

I like all images except first one, bad composition ant too much dark area I think.

Really? It's one of my favourite...

@unknownuser said:

That black splashes on the walls make all interiors not clean, walls are dirty.

So? What's wrong with not perfectly clean walls? Here's a pic of the real thing anyway. Not so clean as you can see.

olishea

stunning massimo. I believe the gallery is richer with the textured walls, I don't think they look dirty. They are all fantastic compositions in their own right, I can not possibly find anything to criticise!

massimo

Thanks for the kind words Oli. The texture of the walls was made based on real photos.

urgen

great render!

olishea

loving the proportions of the 5th image by the way, just perfect poetry!

tadema

Hello massimo, great set of images
John

jo-ke

wow

massimo

Thanks a lot guys.

edenux

@massimo said:

Thanks guys.

@unknownuser said:

I like all images except first one, bad composition ant too much dark area I think.

Really? It's one of my favourite...

@unknownuser said:

That black splashes on the walls make all interiors not clean, walls are dirty.

So? What's wrong with not perfectly clean walls? Here's a pic of the real thing anyway. Not so clean as you can see.
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I agree that in a pic of real thing is not so clean. But it is because of texture and dirt. In your renders it is not a dirt map, or texture, but its a bad GI. And it did not convince me, because you never get bad GI in real life. If I were you, I would try to avoid that in future works.
I gave you some critics which might help you improve rendering quality, while others just tell that is perfect and increadible. But it is never perfect.

notareal

@edenux said:

I agree that in a pic of real thing is not so clean. But it is because of texture and dirt. In your renders it is not a dirt map, or texture, but its a bad GI. And it did not convince me, because you never get bad GI in real life. If I were you, I would try to avoid that in future works.
I gave you some critics which might help you improve rendering quality, while others just tell that is perfect and increadible. But it is never perfect.

Sorry I have to disagree with GI part, for what I see it's just how wall material is set. I know that massimo mostly uses Thea's unbiased engine (and for me this does not look like biased render result), with that blotches or similar effects that biased rendering generates sometimes (photon-mapping and so) are not possible.

massimo

edenux, of course I'm open to all constructive criticism, different tastes etc. and I'm always glad when I can learn something. However Pentti (notareal) is right: this is Thea's TR1, an unbiased engine.
The wall material uses a reflectance map and has a coating stacked layer with a roughness map besides two normal maps: one for the base and one for the coating. Also the diffuse map was obtained from a series of photos of the real thing. I must admit that the renders show exactly the effect that I tried to get.

@unknownuser said: