Bedside Table rendered in Twilight
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A bedside table design I am thinking of making a pair of. Tho I consider myself a newbie at rendering, I was quite happy with how this came out.
I think having done a bit of studio photography in the past helps.
Happy to take C&C's
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That's very nice, Barry. I like the design and the render.
I also find that thinking like a studio photographer helps me setup for rendering.
Have you played with putting the same curve on the outsides of the legs? What if you use the existing front leg at the back but turn it 90° and then make the front legs from a square blank with the same curve on the front and sides?
Or suppose you add a piece to the outside faces of the legs with that curve so at the foot it is L-shaped. The curve on the side would run into the square section below the top so the posts on top would remain the same.
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Yes, nice and nice!
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The design fit and finish is great. Shows off the piece very well. No wonder you like the results. I also grew up as a photographer and try to think in terms of being in the studio.
I'm sure you have noticed that there is some texture repeating. My suggestion is to not use seamless textures on furniture pieces. Instead, create a texture to cover the entire wooden component. It should stretch outside the bounds of the piece with no repeating. Basically you will create your textures in PS so they can be one at a time mapped to each face. They don't need to map perfectly, they just need to be stretched (so to speak) over the piece. Normally this type of rendering in studio has very little entourage and so you can use large textures for all of the pieces as well and get great resolution without sacrificing modeling performance. I hope you don't mind my observations. -
Roland has a point about non-repeating patterns on furniture although I don't really find it all that noticeable in your render, Barry. If you choose to do that, you can fake it with Photoshop as he does or do what I do and use full length boards. The wood grain textures I use are images of real boards that are typically 8 to 16 feet long depending upon the species. Usually I end up with 3 to 6 boards from the same log. That allows me to pick out different parts of a board and with that many boards, I can make sure there are no repeats.
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Very nice. Did you use Twilight material bevel routine?
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Good Job!!
A few questions:
Which version of Twilight did you use> Hobby or Pro
How long did it take to tweak the options until you were satisfied?
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@ Dave, now you mention it the legs do seem a bit unsubstantial, I will play with it.
Thanks Cotty.
Roland and Dave, re: materials, that's all getting way too complicated for me. Tho those 'plank' materials sound interesting, something for the SU shop perhaps?
PB, used 'round corner' in SU. Forgive my ignorance but know nothing of 'bevel routine'.
Garry, latest version of pro, probly messed about for an hour, did 5 renders to get here. Passes? sorry don't remember, but I rarely go past using high+.
Cheers all, Baz
PS: Here is a limed version, same model.
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A minor suggestion @ design: what about carrying the curve of the leg all the way to the short support pieces that hold the top, as if the "leg" were one long piece?
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@mrossk said:
A minor suggestion @ design: what about carrying the curve of the leg all the way to the short support pieces that hold the top, as if the "leg" were one long piece?
Doesn't show well above but it is one leg with a continuation of the curve.
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Cool, sorry I didn't catch that. What if, instead of having the apex somewhere in the middle of the curve, the leg tapered so that it was fattest at the bottom and a little skinnier at the top? It's a small table, so the top won't be supporting huge amounts of weight. To my eye it appears a little too heavy up top. Just my $0.02, hope you don't mind the suggestion.
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Gave it a quick go. The leg is one Bezier curve, smallest at the top, fattest at the bottom. Oh, and just for fun I added the curve to both outside faces.
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Damn! I think I prefer yours, tho' perhaps a little too beefy.
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I agree it's too beefy, but it was a quickie
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Seems to have been given an "oriental" flavor: nice (and not too beefy from an oriental point if view)
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In my humble opinion the design would be greatly improved by losing the bit on top. If you think you might need extra space then a simple hardwood pull-out panel at the top should suffice. It would also make a nice feature. Perhaps something like this
Regards,
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I have a bedside table that has that kind of shelf on top. I really like it- a good place to stash a book or two...
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@mrossk said:
I have a bedside table that has that kind of shelf on top. I really like it- a good place to stash a book or two...
Yeah, I tend to have a bit of stuff next to the bed, I expect most people do. At present there is a clock radio, phone, tablet, kindle, notebook, water glass, tissues, spectacles, spare spectacles, ... you get the idea
BTW The 'Oriental' look is very much part of my style.
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I really like that! You made it?
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