The apartment with paintings

[massimo]

Inspiration taken from a catalogue.
Sketchup + Thea.
HDRI for lighting + a couple of mesh emitters.
PS, Magic bullet photolooks and Nik efex for the post pro.

[olishea]

Spectacular work Massimo!

What's the mesh emitter compared to a normal emitter?

I have no favourite images from this scene, each one is equally as stunning as the last. The specular on the paintings is 100% convincing. Hats off!

[massimo]

Thanks Oli.
Well for the lamps I've just used a rectangular surface with an IES light applied.

[solo]

Oh well, it was fun this whole rendering thing, after seeing your stuff I realize I'm still a noob.

Thanks for ruining my delusions with this masterpiece.

[Carloh]

Amazing! Which thea engine did you use?

[massimo]

Thanks for the very kind words guys.

@unknownuser said:

Which thea engine did you use?

TR2-->high supersampling.

[Carloh]

Would you mind showing the raw renders? I'm curious how much postpro is in these masterpieces...and second question: how many passes and how long did the rendering take? Thanks in advance

[Rich O Brien]

I want to put one of these in our gallery....

Have you a preference? Or will I put them all up?

They are amazing

[massimo]

@unknownuser said:

Would you mind showing the raw renders?

Here you go. I saved them as EXR.

@unknownuser said:

how many passes and how long did the rendering take?

Around 100 I don't remember exactly how many. The original size was 1500x1043 px. They took quite long time (overnight, around 9-10 hrs), but probably I could have stop them before. Also I have an old i7 with only 6 Gb of ram.

Thank you very much Rich. Pick the one you prefer. I trust your taste.

[Rich O Brien]

http://sketchucation.com/community/gallery/66-the-apartment-with-paintings

[massimo]

Thanks.

[jarynzlesa]

just amazing renders

[Frederik]

These are SO incredible amazing...

You're a true master, massimo...

[tinanne]

These are really incredible. Absolutely beautiful work.

[allanx]

Those renders are fantastic Massimo...Great job.

allanx

[massimo]

Thanks again everyone.

[pilou]

Panini in reduction!

[Carloh]

i thought there was much more postproduction in these...makes it even more amazing

[jpalm32]

Wow! Just wow!

[massimo]

Thanks.

@carloh said:

i thought there was much more postproduction in these...

Well I'm not interested in heavy post production. I mean you can do whatever you want with a computer. I prefer to have some "rules", something like you were in a real darkroom.