New job, new kinds of work...

[hand471037]

New job, new kinds of work. This took about three hours, most of which was photoshop time for the model was already done (as this was part of a Schematic set that just went out)...

The original is much larger, this one looks a little pixelated.

[Scott Hopkins]

Very nice! What filters did you use in Photoshop?

[beegee]

Yummy rendering Jeffrey.

Has a nice "hand rendered' feel. ( the old fashioned kind )

[sfaust]

wow, that's got a really nice effect to it. Would love to hear how you did it if you're willing to share!

[hand471037]

It wasn't hard, it was about a week and a half of work for a whole Schematic set for a city-block sized huge multi-use development (Commercial, Live/Work, lotsa Condos, big Garage) (eat your heart out ADT :) ), plans, elevations, unit plans, sections, 3D views, a flyby animation, and some renderings. Since we had the model it was about three hours (counting rendering time) to make this image.

I did three things:
First off, use a real nice hemispherical sky. I downloaded a free one from a company that makes really nice ones, and I think I'll go back and buy their CD. Use the spherical environment background with your nice hemispherical sky image.

Second off, use a nice glass. The glass out of box in Accurender isn't very good. It's good for 'solid' glass, like a very thick bit of glass, but not for glazing. Just by turning up the reflection, and down the refraction and adding a little attenuation can really help. Then the windows reflect your nice sky you added above, and will really 'sing'.

Third, export the image to photoshop and play with the levels and the color saturation. Render images aren't color corrected, and are always overstaurated, hence that 'computer' look. Just buy fixing the levels in photoshop, lightening the midtones some, and within the hue controls lowering the overall saturation a little really helps. Then I faked in the building in the background from a site photo, and using the 'Vintette' action with different feather settings, I made the fade-out border.