Two recent interiors I made...

[arev]

Hi, here are some images from my recent work. The floor stones are atarring in these, that's why they take most od the pictures.
Made in 3ds max + Vray plugin, fixed some contrast/colors in Photoshop.

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/1964/slatesmall1hu7.th.jpg[/img]
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/3742/slatesmall2fe7.th.jpg[/img]
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/2438/travsmall1pg1.th.jpg[/img]
http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/4376/travsmall2wr6.th.jpg[/img]

I hope you'll like it

 

[Venetia]

Say, those are pretty nifty! The 3D team at my job (architectural firm) do things like that (I'm on the 2D team). Do you work at an archt. firm too?

 

[arev]

Thanks, Ven. It's actually a small company, creating misc multimedia content. Once in a while I get to do things like these Hopefully I'll advance in some time, maybe to a company like yours (need someone from the other side of the world? :D).

 

[Despain]

Shit that is really badass. They look just like photos until you zoom in.

 

[arev]

Thx, Des. They're generally to clean for photos but... well... whatever, people want them like that :D

 

[Cruelty]

i thought you were an interior decorator or something until i read they're 3D. o__O

nice. =D

 

[Charlie Fleed]

In the 3rd and 4th images the sun outside looks like from SW while it enters through the windows from NE... :D
Aside from this little joke, they are amazing, I've seen many of them on deviantart but these impressed me.

 

[arev]

Thanks guys.
charlie.lee, great eye for details you have

 

[Impreza]

No way! That's must be a photo...right?

 

[Dark Koji]

Very impressive. Could have fooled me into thinking those were actual photos...gah. >_<

 

[jpah]

I seriously thought those were real, I still would have if nobody had said anything, you sir are amazing.

 

[arev]

Thanks

 

[GhastlyMasquerade]

Excellent environments! But the only weak point is the damn flower! lol That's the only thing that I didn't like... The rest, looks grea. You use Vray as renderer? I like it. Neat stuff.

 

[arev]

Thx. I don't quite like the flower either, but just haven't got the time to work on it too long. Better luck nex time maybe :D
Oh, and yes, Vray is the renderer, as mentioned in the first post

 

[rexxzecutioner]

Have you used brazil set up with a render farm?

 

[arev]

No I haven't :> I said it was Vray. how many times do I have to repeat that? :d ^^
And no render farm either. Just my PC. That's why it took about 20 hrs to a 2800x2100 resolution

 

[arcthemonkey]

You might try using C4D to render. Epic radiosity capabilities, and it's still the fastest renderer on the market (last I checked).

But you know, these are really quite good. I mean, I don't think people realize that images like these that use really simple geometry are 90% lighting when it comes to looking so good. Because, really, there are three things that really impress me here -

First, great job on the lighting. I don't know how much work the renderer you use did, but the lighting definitely meets its 90% quota here.

Second, like I said, the geometry itself is really simple, but there were two things that really caught my eye - the couch, and the curtains. Actually, I take that back. The couch, the couch, the couch! How did you do that? Did you do it with cloth or other such deformers, or did you do the wrinkles by hand?

Finally, please tell me where you get your textures.

 

[arev]

Too bad you like the couch so much, as it comes from a set of models bought to speed up the work :D
Textures are mostly from the web, except the floor stones - these are pictures of actual products.
The Cinema4D renderer may be fast, but it's still inferior to Vray pretty much, which I'm very used to, so there's no point to switch to C4D now.
And yeah, you're right, the lighting does most of the job. Lighting + materials, which in Vray are just great. Not as complex as Mental-Ray's shaders, but the effects are even better (at least when it comes to creating architectual materials).

 

[GhastlyMasquerade]

Check this site, although I'm sure you already know it:
http://www.cgtextures.com/

 

[arcthemonkey]

Oooh, the couch... my dreams...

Anyway, I don't know about the comparative values of the two renderers quality-wise, but I do know that a lot of very photorealistic stuff comes out of C4D, but I do know that my own brief forays into photorealism, while not quite on par with yours (I have issues with specularity, most often), only take 1-2 hours to render in a scene of comparable complexity.