Apartment Block - Modeling Practice

Base shape (mirrored)

Level Shape (mirrored)

25 Levels

Looking up

Recreation of Thorncrown Chapel

3ds Max and Maya  - Modeling
Vray - Rendering
Building "Thorncrown Chapel" - Eureka Springs, Arkansas.

Wireframe:

Light balance:

Learning exercise - Recreation of a Sydney Cafe

Modeled in Maya
Rendered in V-Ray for Maya

Final Renders:

 

 

 

Light Balance Tests:

 

Eco Work Room

Another learning exercise - this time a recreation of a room from Home Design Magazine by Catherine Whitting - an Eco Interior. I changed alot of details but kept the overall color scheme and basic furniture arrangement.

Modeled in Maya
Rendered in Vray for Maya

Final Render

Light Balance

Reference image from Home Design

Something's Gotta Give - Kitchen

As a learning exercise I've decided to model, texture and render a number of photos. The process will hopefully improve my rendering by giving me instant feed back on real world lighting and shading. The first photo I decided to replicate is a photo I found in a copy of "Home Beautiful". It's the kitchen from the movie "Something's Gotta Give".

There are quite a few things that are incorrect. Most notably the modeling was a bit rushed resulting in inaccurate beveling details and, to save time, my render settings were rather low resulting in all the grainy noise.

It's a learning exercise so no need for perfection.

All modeling was done in Maya and rendering in Vray for Maya.

Here is my final render:

Here is the wire-frame for modeling:

Here is the lightbalance:

If I were to re-render the scene I have a good idea about what would need changing to up the realism and create a better match.

Here is the photo I was attempting to replicate: Link

W.I.P - Cafe - Vray lighting experiments

Created with V-Ray + 3ds Max





 

Learn Vray - course renders

I recently completed the lessons for the "Learn Vray" course - (visit www.learnvray.com). It teaches a simple yet powerful method for creating realistic Architectural renderings.  The principles are broadly useful for simulating photographic images of all sorts and in any render engine.

Here are my renders for the course scenes - completed in V-Ray for Maya:

 Light Balance Renders:

Final Renders