Detached house project

Carloh

this i an university project where the goal is to practice your visualisation skills...at the end there should be an animation from the whole site. for the garden there are not many specifications, so i'm looking forward to build it
i think i will go pretty deep into detailing this, so there will be some updates.

here are two currant renders of what i built this far (Thea Render).

jpalm32

Nice start.
Are gutter down pipes really that far from walls there?

Bryan K

More detail? It looks to me like all you need is the garden and it's done.

Great renders.

Carloh

thank you guys for your comments!

that's a good hint for the gutter pipes, i guess i will move them closer to the walls.

More detailing to the house will mean here, that i'll build an interior, because as you see i want to have a dusk scene with interior lights on, so i want to show something inside the house.

ArCAD-UK

Your rainwater pipes look quite big for such a small roof, unless you live in a monsoon district. There's no reason why you can't have the pipes away from the wall as long as they are self-supporting or suitably braced. If you go down that route I would make them look like they are supporting the roof.

The downstairs ceiling looks like it is on fire! It might not look so bad once you have landscape reflections as well.

Good start

Daniel

Nice wall texture. Be careful where you crop your images - on the first one, the very tip of the roof is cut off (on the left).

Carloh

thanks for your hint Daniel! I'll keep that in mind for the next renders!

Carloh

...just added some more lighting to the scene.

Carloh

...what to do when you lack the motivation to model? Right...you render!

just testing some different IBL images for the scene and playing with the lighting parts here...

Bryan K

Looking good.

Carloh

...some more environment testing

Carloh

some model progress...and since i'm new to thea i'm testing all the possible render settings...this time no GPU render, instead had a go with unbiased TR 2.

tadema

Looking great Carloh especially the last one
John

Carloh

thank you John for the kind words! that's nice to read especially by a master like you

Bryan K

Oh wow.

And you say it isn't finished?

Frederik

I've already commented on the last one on the Thea Render forum, but guess it doesn't hurt to post here as well...

One thing...
Can you share the technique you've used to create the big emitting glass bowls in the below render...?
Or perhaps you can even share a render ready 'skippy'...?

Mike Amos

Very nice Carloh but steady on, it's possible to go right off someone THAT good.......

Carloh

@mike amos said:

Very nice Carloh but steady on, it's possible to go right off someone THAT good.......

Erm...i have to admit that this is the first time here that my english skills leave me in the dark...all i get from this sentence is the thumbs up, so thanks for that

@frederik said:

One thing...
Can you share the technique you've used to create the big emitting glass bowls in the below render...?
Or perhaps you can even share a render ready 'skippy'...?

Of course...there's not much magic in these. it's just a sphere i got from the warehouse, put it through artisan to get a smoother surface and then stretched them a little with the scale tool to have a kind of ellipsoid body. the material is a standard frosted glass from the thea library and inside is a point light. anyways here's a thea scene you can use and modify for your needs

lichtkugeln.zip

olishea

Your last render beat me to it, but I'll comment anyway....

When using IBL to illuminate a scene, it's always 100% more realistic to add some entourage between the subject foreground and background. You can see in your previous renders that the world just ends and a background appears, making the scene appear computer generated. Even something as simple as a tree line, some bushes, a garden wall etc. can all break up the line between foreground and background, allowing for a much more realistic scene.

So basically for a scene of this type you need:

1)Foreground entourage
2)Foreground
3)Subject
4)Subject background entourage
5)Background

Instead of: (which looks unrealistic)

1)Foreground
2)Subject
3)Background

Your last render does compensate for this, but I thought I'd share my views anyway.

Frederik

Thanks for sharing, Carloh...
So the secret was the standard frosted glass from the Thea material library...
I had tried different materials, but couldn't find any I was happy with...