Lighting And Rendering

Caroline Foster

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Compositing Trials

So Many Composites

So many colors

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Updates

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Modeling and Texturing Progress

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Final Print Layout

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Studio Lighting Progress

Still looking for a few more objects to model maybe. Need some sort of fabric I think, to lead off the side of the frame. Which side? Not sure lol

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Final Brooklyn Exterior Composites

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Nighttime Update

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Exterior Updates

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Texturing Progress

Having a lot of trouble with my textures. For some reason I can’t make my displacement maps work, and I can’t change the bump depth on some objects. Really not happy with where the texturing is at currently, definitely consider it more as a base than the final textures. Need to take down saturation on many textures, and need some variety between the two leftmost apartment buildings. Also still need a dirt map on the ground, but I’m having trouble making it crisp. Lots of sharp edges, but can’t fix a lot of them because I’ve deleted history and can’t fix the bevels I have (I do have bevels but they’re way too small).

Also, obviously, render is noisy. Have yet to fix my render settings.

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Progress Update

Still trying to figure out color and saturation levels. Some basic texturing in progress.

Another better shot possibility

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Brooklyn Exterior Progress

Modeling and some lighting trials

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Brooklyn Exterior Sketches

Also did some color/lighting tests...

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Brooklyn Exterior Reference Photos

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Final Composites

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Large Renders

Tumblr won’t let me upload .exr files, so I uploaded my backup nighttime render jpeg (without nighttime edits in photoshop). Lost my original edits on the Mason jar and had to redo, came out not quite as good as the first time. Otherwise, super happy with how it’s come out. Over 12 hours of rendering??

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Final Edits

Made some changes to bottle positions, added lights behind the bottles to try to simulate colored reflections on the wall, edited the chair to make it less polygonal, made the shelf with the plant smaller, and brought down the wall dirt slightly on the bottom. Also made the top of the bar darker to try to differentiate the counter from the base, will try changing the direction of the grain today with new render probably.

I also edited the Mason jar, but on the wrong file. Will update with a new render when I reference it back in.

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Texturing Edits

Daytime - Want to do another texturing pass - bar texture should be different between the counter and the bottom boards, dirt is maybe too thick? Still need to finish a few of the bottles on the shelf. And everything is still a bit too oversaturated maybe? Unsure.

Nighttime 

Middle - Will probably try to use for nighttime