Some more light experiments using Vray.
Just sky+sun ...no extra light added.

The monk is a cutout 'face me' component

Some light enhancement in Photoshop to get a more dramatic foggy light from the window openings:
This is how: 'color range' select for the highlights, pasting this selection in a new layer, applying gaussian blur (effect menu) to it and change the layers blending to 'lighten'.

I hope you like it

Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel

Hi Solo,
I see you found those arroway textures. They are lovely aren't they?

Nice job on those renderings!

+1 !

Great light, a working composition, good use of colour and a niiiiiice soft focus going on

And 17 minutes?....Podium is a fine companion

I think you just said it Sid!

By the way, imho Podium is easier than artlantis ....but there is rumour that a new Artlantis studio is coming up with better output quality than the old one.....so who knows what the near future brings.

Great image Nomer !
Podium still remains a power tool.
I am also interested to see the Vray version of that space.

Cool work!

Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel

Solo, I just looove that first image
It would be great if you would see a hint from what is going on outside.

@unknownuser said:

Although ur final image is composed with a much better balance of lighting I feel ur originals are more realistic, which I like. :thup:

My guess is that in the last image the 'greeny' environment only casts pure white light on the interior, while the previous images had some nice color bleeding going on coming from that vegetation.

So yes, light levels have been improved, but color bleeding got worse.
My god, aren't we picky

sorry for that Jackson , actually the images all are really amazing. :ewink:

Oh yes jackson,
That definitely is an improvement.
Well done, the light is more balanced now.

Looking good Jackson.
I love Bans design and you seem to have caught it well in those snapshots.
Maybe some leveling in Photoshop can 'spark' things up a little more.

Nice work.

Cheers,
Kwistenbiebel

spooky....
reminds me of early photography shots of 19thd century industrial architecture...e.g steel train stations and warehouses ...

Wow ...your entry post in this thread is really a joy to read.
Thanks for posting this and I support the things you say.
Podium is render software that lets you focus on the subject, and not so much on technicalities.
Once again proven the strength of Podium.

Nice bathroom rendering.
I like both versions of the image...even though on my Pc the second looks a bit washed out so either me or you should check monitor settings

Great work again from the Pixar hippie

I completely missed this one....
In the example, the mesh is really clean with some nice triangulation.

This is unbelievable. I WANT this

...
Looking great already !

This plugin, together with a (yet to be developed) 'subdivision tool', takes SU one step closer to the ability to model organics.

Might I add a feature to the wishlist for that plugin? : a 'soft selection' tool additional to the selection of control points.

Great work.

I know what you mean....
That would indeed prevent the bloom washing out the whole image, as some parts would remain crisp.
I'll keep that in mind for next try.

A last one, presented as a mellow tribute to FLW :

The rendering and SU screengrab (almost same viewpoint) side by side

BLOOM, (sometimes referred to as light bloom) is a graphics effect to reproduce an imaging artifact of real-world cameras. The effect produces fringes (or feathers) of light around very bright objects in an image.

The physical basis of bloom is that, in the real world, lenses can never focus perfectly. Even a perfect lens will convolve the incoming image with an Airy disc (the diffraction pattern produced by passing a point light source through a circular aperture) . Under normal circumstances, these imperfections aren't noticeable; but, an intensely bright light source will cause the imperfections to become visible. As a result, the image of the bright light appears to bleed beyond its natural borders.

(text from wikipedia)

Thank you Gaeius .

The same view as the last one, but with the 'built-in' bloom option of Fry:
Somehow, adding bloom seems to wash out the image easily but the appearance is softer...

Thanks Remus.

A side view without surroundings...

Hi David,

Looking better and better.
A good ground texture will make this more alive.
I like the crispness of the images so far. Keep those coming.

That's cool...I should have never guessed this was straight SU output.
The Piranesi touch up is very realistc and communicative.
Well done

I didn't model this myself.(Michel from Pushpullbar did )
You can all download the Sketchup file yourselves here:
http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1790

I am really curious to see results made with different render engines.
Could you post the results here?