Rendering Challenge - Bathroom sink

Al Hart

I think i would go through your thread and add some qualitative information to it.

Thanks for the comments,

I extracted some of your comment, and added it to the Reflection Thread, along with a response.

tallbridgeguy

I tried a little different light setup, not great but I think a little better. I looked back at the other sink renders and most seem to be in the daylight.

Is daylight easier/harder to do than a night scene?

Gaieus

Not necessarily but if you have large windows (not very particular for bathrooms though), you need not deal with global illumination. So maybe yes, easier but only from laziness point of view

tallbridgeguy

Thanks Gaieus, I was also wondering about making photo-realistic images. Is the goal the closest to "real" as possible or to make it interesting to the viewer? I tried having someone in the scene because I wanted it to look more like real life. (I know it doesn't)

A lot of the images on this site are fantastic but there never seems to be any "life" in them. I would like to see some more emphasis on rendering an image like a well thought out photograph, with people/dogs/etc...

thanks for the help!
S

brodie

@tallbridgeguy said:

Thanks Gaieus, I was also wondering about making photo-realistic images. Is the goal the closest to "real" as possible or to make it interesting to the viewer? I tried having someone in the scene because I wanted it to look more like real life. (I know it doesn't)

A lot of the images on this site are fantastic but there never seems to be any "life" in them. I would like to see some more emphasis on rendering an image like a well thought out photograph, with people/dogs/etc...

thanks for the help!
S

I suspect this could be a whole separate topic with lots of responses. I think there are a couple different reasons you don't see more "life." In arch-viz, which seems to predominate this sight, people are secondary as they tend to draw the eye away from the subject (ie. the architecture). Flipping through any given architecture magazine the only people you're bound to see are in the ads.

The other reason, I think, is that people are very hard to get right. This is a particular problem with SU which doesn't play well with lots of polygons. One photorealistic person can take longer than the rest of the modeling/texturing together. And if you don't get it just right it can detract from the rendering. Even if you do cutouts, I've seen a lot of fantastic renderings spoiled by badly integrated cutout people.

Typically for little side projects like a bathroom for SCF I don't both with people, but for my final renderings for work I almost always add some. I've used both the iClone people from the 3d Warehouse (which are pretty good so long as you don't get too close) and cutouts. The cutouts tend to separate the photoshoping men from the boys, so to speak (I'm probably at the adolescent stage). There are some great examples of cutouts integrated seamlessly into beautiful renders on this forum (Teofas having, figuratively, written the book imo) but they're far and few between.

-Brodie

tallbridgeguy

Thanks Brodie, I just found it odd that the quality of the photorender is often more important than the subject matter. For example I design bridges and if I do a great photorender (ha!), the public will comment on the picture and not the bridge!

I guess I would like to see a topic where the subject matter is also addressed. Did the image "sell" you the design or is the photorender the dominant feature.

Thanks for the great feedback!

s

Al Hart

@earthmover said:

My NPR interpretation. Made with Corel Painter.

Nice - What did you take from SketchUp to Corel?

(Hidden line, full image, etc)

Any tips for us?

EarthMover

My NPR interpretation. Made with Fryrender & Corel Painter.

EarthMover

Al, it started as a quick and grainy unbiased render. Then I took it into Corel and worked at it with a couple different brushes and my Wacom Tablet. No real tricks...just doodled until I was semi-satisfied.

Here's the original render. Nothing too special.

Bathroom sink_FRY.jpg

brodie

@tallbridgeguy said:

Thanks Brodie, I just found it odd that the quality of the photorender is often more important than the subject matter. For example I design bridges and if I do a great photorender (ha!), the public will comment on the picture and not the bridge!

I guess I would like to see a topic where the subject matter is also addressed. Did the image "sell" you the design or is the photorender the dominant feature.

Thanks for the great feedback!

s

I think it all goes back your one of your original questions as to what the "point" is of the rendering. Much of what you see here on SCF is posted either to impress fellow renderer/modelers (90% of the kitchen renderings you see) or to get rendering/modeling advice from peers in the field. I think mostly where people get into what your talking about is with critiques on things such as lighting and camera position which can both liven up a dull rendering even if the dull rendering is plenty realistic.

-Brodie

Al Hart

@earthmover said:

Al, it started as a quick and grainy unbiased render. Then I took it into Corel and worked at it with a couple different brushes and my Wacom Tablet. No real tricks...just doodled until I was semi-satisfied.

Here's the original render. Nothing too special.

Thanks,

I saw a presentation by Jim Leggitt earlier this year where they started and ended with all kinds og things to make the NPR results. Such as coloring a hidden line drawing as well as modifying rendered drawings.

We have been trying to add "one button" aids for NPR Rendering - such as the option to overlay the rendering with Sketchy Edges - (there is a sample earlier in this thread). So I am always looking ideas of what people do in Photoshop, which could easily be added as a post-process to a renderer.

rdluther

Heres My take on the challenge.

bathroom vanity.jpg

Al Hart

@rdluther said:

Heres My take on the challenge.
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Nice work.

Did you do everything in SketchUp.

Did you apply the pencil as materials, or as watermark overlay?

rdluther

Nope I went for speed... output linework and shaddows as a JPEG a colored everything in photoshop in about 20min.

pilou

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smokinbakin

Nice,if that was my bathroom, I would be driven crazy.

Al Hart

This weeks Workshop was fun - I hope we all picked up some good ideas.

For the next workshop, I chose something a little more fun - cars.

Come check it out: Rendering Workshop - Model Cars

xrok1

Pilou it matches your head! (avatar)

better check i think your material editor exploded!

kwistenbiebel

For the sake of architecture ...

pbacot

This thread is interesting for seeing the effect of different approaches. For PR I find I am looking more critically at the product, how the bowl looks, how the counter is finished. In the NPR I feel the impact of the overall concept is the focus and I am not concerned about the details so much. If the woman is in there, I tend to look at her. Anyway, funny, I find cars more boring than bathroom sinks. It has to do with my line of work, and I must be working too much.