Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Albertson's Building Rendering

After a long afternoon of critiquing projects, my TA and I sat down to work on a rendering based off of his Revit model of the Albertson's Building.  He has been following along with the students to see how long the project has taken.  His model was great and had a lot of detail, so we had a lot to work with.  We imported it into max, worked with HDRI environment maps to get a full 48 bit color, modified the sun angle to pop certain elements, swapped out all the textures for Arch + Design textures, customized the brick texture bitmap to match the real building's tone of brick, and finally did some strategic vignetting in photoshop to strengthen the overall focal point of the image.  Here is the result of our efforts.  It was about 1.5 hours start to finish.

UPDATE:  We spent 35 minutes adding entourage, a bit of context, some improved textures and reduced vignetting.  Also there is a modified crop.  These small steps make a huge difference.  Before and after:

After:

Before

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