erz6r2014 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog ronenbekerman Architectural Visualization Blog iP |COMPLETE 218 FLARES127 57s cul Share 14 44 Tweet (11) g S| 45 3 Making of ™ ° Griehallen - Memory hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! ‘90er26r20%8 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog APRIL. 30, 2014 | BY RONEN BEKERMAN | MAKING-OF, NATIVE, TUTORIALS Tamas Medve's cold and rainy visual memory of the Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway awarded him Best Visualization of the Week NO. 14/2014 for the great composition and mood he managed to convey, as if we stand there with him next to this concert hall in the rain. Join Tamas in this article, as he describes his process of creating this scene using 3dsmax and V-Ray, with some extra shots at the end. Enjoy! Author : Tamas Medve Tamas Medve is 3d Artist from Hungary. He studied architecture for 5 years, getting more serious about 3dsmax during his 4th year and understanding he actually loves doing ArchVIZ. After he left university he got a great opportunity to move to London and work as a visualization artist at Foster+Partners. A year and a half later he sent his portfolio to MIR, where he is now... part of a great talented team. Project forum thread — Grieghallen — “Memory” Introduction Hi Everyone! Thank you for giving me this opportunity to share my methods used in my recent work entitled “Grieghallen — Memory’. It's a great honor, and so | would like to give a shout out to Ronen for his kind invitation hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 2190er26r20%8 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog First, let's start with the inspiration behind the project. Why did | create th mage? The answer to this is simple. I wanted to make an image in 3d that would always remind me of that great time I spent in Bergen; to remind me of that feeling of the impact of raindrops on my coat and the dynamic weather that makes Bergen so special. In this tutorial I won't say too much about the technical details, as I'm not better than you guys (as this article will reveal). You will see how easy it really is to achieve an image like mine with only basic modelling and texturing skills. | have tried to show my workflow in the best way | can, focusing on the most important steps spiced up with some tricks, hope that you find some useful ideas here and have fun reading it! Let's begin References When somebody asks me — “how | did you do this or that...", my first answer is always “references”! Always use references before you start a project. these could be photos or a paintings for instance. The reference Photo, or any kind of image, is going to help your work from the beginning until applying the final tweaks later in Photoshop. In my case it was easy to get some references, as | pass by Grieghallen all the time, and waiting for rain isn’t a problem we experience in Bergen. So | took a couple of photos when it was raining and a couple when everything was dry and the lighting was overcast, just to see the differences between the two kinds of weather. These photos also helped a lot in the modelling and lighting part of the project. hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 90erz6r2014 Making of Grichallon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog Lighting and Camera Setup ‘Some of you might get to lighting and camera a bit later in the process, but starting with this part is more logical for me. Usually I start my personal projects with modelling some basic geometry (like boxes), which helps me to explore the scene and to find exciting angles (or just find that angle which shows the building in the best and most attractive way) First, | built up my amazing scene of 2 boxes. Next, | set up the lighting, In this project I only used a V-Ray Dome Light and a few V- Ray IES lights (highlighting the entrance and lighting the ground floor) following the references. The lighting set-up used is very simple. hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 4190erz6r2014 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 8D Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog | always like to see the sky in the perspective view and this can sometimes be really helpful especially if your sky is not overcast. For this method | use a JPG from an HDR! image to use as a preview in the viewport. So | grab this JPG image and simply add in the dome texture slot. After this | drag (copy instance) that texture from here into a new material slot and | drag it into the environment window too (copy instance) Finally | press alt+b (viewport configuration) and just change the background solid color to the “use environment background” option. That's it. | can see my sky in the viewport and | can rotate it easily in real-time. However, for the final render, make sure you use a higher resolution texture (| just re-scale the original texture in Photoshop before rendering). See the details below. 5100erz6r2014 Modeling Modelling is definitely not my strength, so | wouldn't like to go too deep into this subject like speaking about techniques, etc, Actually, starting the model was the hardest part because | didn't have any plans or section drawings, so | had to model the building by eyesight based on the photos and the 2 boxes that | had made earlier (see the lighting and camera set-up part). I'm 100% sure that my model is not correct but if your eyes can't discern a difference between real and fake it really doesn't matter, For every model | used only the basic poly modelling tools and | just dressed up the scene with these elements. One small piece of advice : if you are using double glazing in the windows you will get nicer (doubled) reflections. To make the image and the mood believable | have put some raindrops on the foreground benches. Simple squashed spheres painted with the object painter tool in 3ds max hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 620erz6r2014 Making of Grichaon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog In addition, there is some interior furniture and a few trees (Trees) around the building. Below you can almost see the result of the scene.... just one important thing is missing, so let's talk about that more. ————————————— HOME ABOUT —_ ADVERTISE CONTACT WRITE FOR THE BLOG JOB BOARD SPIRATION —_INTERVIEY Texturing In real life, when you are working on a project, you don’t have as much time as you need to include a lot of details or to make stunning shaders and textures. That is why when | do a personal project | always try to finish it as | would in a commercial environment with a tight deadline (even if | have a lot of time). It's a bad habit | know. To save a lot of time | hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 7190erz6r2014 Making of Grichallon - Momory - 80 Arehituctural Visualization & Rendering Blog didn't model all the surrounding buildings, sq this issue another way. Of course | had to do some small retouching and matte painting corrections on the photos in Photoshop, but it worked out pretty well | think. | used the textures + opacity maps in a V-Ray Light Material and I achieved nice, real reflections and colors in the render. THE GROUND MATERIAL The ground stone texture is from the Arroway Textures Conerete collection with some small changes in Photoshop (contrast, color). | also made a specific displacement texture to get a better result. Basically, | used 2 planes for the ground. One is for the stone with V-Ray Displacement and another for the puddles of water 90erz6r2014 Making of Grichaon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog THE RUSTY WINDOW FRAME MATERIAL | have downloaded the textures for it from CGTextures and | mixed about 4 different textures with each other to get the final diffuse map. 9120er26r20%8 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog THE CONCRETE WALL MATERIAL Render Setup In creating this image | used the V-Ray render engine (which is the most common engine). It is fast and easy to handle! These are my render settings that | usually use. Pretty basic, | think. The 4000px high image render time took around 3 hours on a BOX workstation, Below is the final raw render. hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! +0180erz6r2014 Making of Griahalon - Memory - $0 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog | made another region render with a dry stone material that | blended with the first render in Photoshop. This method gave me much more freedom, because I could easily change the borders between the wet and dry parts. hntpitwmw_conenbekerman.comimaking-ofgrehallen-memory! 1180erz6r2014 ‘Making of Griahalon - Momory - $0 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog Post Production Here we go! This is one of the most interesting parts of the process, where you make the final tweaks and personal touches to your image. | know some people prefer to do everything in 3d and using Photoshop is just secondary, but | believe that working in Photoshop is as important. It gives you so much freedom... it's really hard to tell any general tricks and methods about post-production, because every image needs different tweaks and adjustments. Mainly, | use 3 different render elements for it. The lighting pass is to push up the lighter areas on the image, the reflection pass is to make the reflections stronger if, necessary, and finally the z-depth pass which helps you to add some fog or mist (with the z-depth pass you have to. use it as a layer mask in Photoshop). One more thing. If you want to add some dirt to your image you can overlay some textures or just use the ambient occlusion pass. i bE a The PSD file that | worked in is a big mess with tonnes of layers but | did a short post-production breakdown video hntpitwmw_conenbekerman.comimaking-ofgrehallen-memory! 1200erasz014 Making of Grichalen - Memory -30 Arehtecural Visulzaton & Rendering Slog showing the main steps. | pasted the people back in from the original photos so it was quite an easy job blending them with the image. Ihave another small piece of advice for you : There are many visualization styles existing in our industry but if you are doing an image in a realistic way don't put people who have different lighting on them. Just find a suitable one or leave it otherwise it will just ruin the image. Thank you for reading this "making-of" article and | hope you found some interesting and useful advice in it! Feel free to ask question in the comments section below (or next to each image or paragraph), Best wishes, hips onenbekarman.comimaking-ot-griehallen-memory! 1390er26r20%8 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog Tamas Medve YOU MIGHT ALSO LIKE Making of Z'Axe Making of Nordic Boutique House Recommended by RENDER SKETCHUP Make Your Model Look Like A Photo Download 9 comments ~ livefyre® can i 7 . ay Sign in 14 people listening sa | + Follow share | Post comment as.. Newest | Oldest | Top Comments can find the ground texture?I have Arroway Textures Concrete vol.1, but there is no same textures, | know that you corrected color, but | still can not find texture to make the same result in Arroway Textures Concrete(((( Like Reply hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 4190er26r20%8 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog bpositive May 7, 2014 Very beautiful image and great details :-) Like Reply Jamie Hopwood May 1,2014 That's great, Love the lighting scenario, Great to look at, good work, Like Reply guimiottosouza May 1.2014 Wonderful work !!! But i dont understand too much how you made the pudles of water I! Can you tell more ?? Thanks !! Like Reply medveponttamas, May 1, 2014 avi jottosouza Thx! Well you check my displacement texture you can see some parts are white some are grey. It means that the white parts are going to raise up 800 if you put another simple plane with water material you will get nice pedals but you have to find the right position of it! Basically you will get pedals on the grey part (see on the displacement map). Ifits not clear just let me know and | will try to explain in another way because my English knowledge is limited ::) 1Mh.Like Reply Gengismat ‘pr 30,2014 Wonderful work and useful "Making Of" I! Ifits possible | just want to ask you a few questions: For one of my scene, I've used the same method as you for the background ( bended plane + bitmap ) so i'd like to know a litle more :) What kind of material have you assigned to the planes? Why you put another plane with the opacity map right behind the first one? It's just to let us see that the plane has an opacity map too? Thanks in advance :) hitpitwnw conenbekerman.comimaking-otgrehallr-memory! 1500er26r20%8 Making of Grichalon - Momory - 80 Architectural Visualization & Rendering Blog s Like Reply Apr 30, 2014 Thank you! :) Now I see its a bit confusing that image with the background elements, That one is just showing the method (my mistake sorry)! lust used only one plane with a light material and thats all soo the opacity map you have to use in the vray light material. :) Like Reply ElvinAliyev1 ‘Apr 30, 2014 Spectacular work and very informative Makign Of ! Thank you Like Reply Adham Agha Apr 30, 2014 Great " Making Of " Tamas. 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