How about a modelling/rendering challenge?

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:45 am

OnoSendai wrote:Good luck. The original looks photoshopped to me, so you might be trying to achieve the impossible

Well you know what the next extension to your renderer should be now.

If I don't get it exactly no biggie, it's an interesting exercise.

johanjohan · Post by **johanjohan** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:39 am

hi

i think if you want more realistic, use a black texture with brush for cuboids
and forget not the textile in the corner

StompinTom · Post by **StompinTom** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:13 pm

that looks like a digital rendering to me.....

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:03 pm

Yeah, probably. Make up your mind:

Rettangolo bathroom fixtures collection from Gessi

And... tadaaaa ! Oh my god thanks zsouthboy, I would never have found this site without you !

I wouldn't say the exercise would be totally pointless if it's 100% digital, since the resulting image may rock !

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:00 pm

It's not a render, I don't think. Just heavily postprodded, as Ono suspected. I've discussed the issue with some hard-core vizualisation pros and they say it's really hard to persuade furniture makers to go the digital way for their catalogues. Most of them continue to use super-expensive studio shots because they feel they would ripping off the client with renderings. Fear of losing control over the output, etc... It doesn't help that most of them get pitched with VRay renders, which are good but not quite the real unbiased deal. These guys I was talking to had just managed to win over Poggen-Pohl (high-end kitchens) after endless, fruitless negotiations with other big names.

ZSouthboy: Once you're done with this one, why not up the complexity level and look at this great stuff: www.boffi.com

Now we got the shift lens there's nothing barring us from replicating their stuff 1:1

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:07 am

Holy crap, some of those are just fantastically cool looking.

Thanks BbB and CTZn.

CTZn · Post by **CTZn** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 2:24 am

And I think that a challenge wich would consist on matching a photograph the closer is worst it, though I'd like to choose mine. That way we could end with a bunch of nice pics, not just clones between them.

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:55 am

If you guys are up for it, we could pick a few sites with similar pictures and hold an actual contest - pick one, try to match, and post results. You have one week.

To win what, I don't know, though.

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 3:59 am

Give us a month instead of a week and I'm in. Done a Boffi image before and wouldn't mind doing another. Nothing prevents usfrom going faster if we can.

Pibuz · Post by **Pibuz** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 4:16 am

I'd try that too! Just to be beaten, really.. But i like to compete! +1 BbB about the time given: one week is not even affordable to me; perhaps 1 month it's better!

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 5:49 am

I'll go looking for links in addition to the Boffi stuff we've got links for, and get a post together

Don't we have a contests section on the forum somewhere already?

And I think rule 1) of the contest should be "No BbB allowed. You make us all look bad."

(Just kidding Bertrand - we kid because we care:D)

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 8:34 am

Actually, I was kind of trying to match a photo in what I'm doing now and had to give up cos I was diverging too much. I'll pretend my imagination took over.

zsouthboy · Post by **zsouthboy** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 5:22 am

By the way, I've been using the "Vanishing Point" tool in Photoshop in this task and it helps tremendously - you can match planes in the photo and then export the geometry to .3ds to work from.

BbB · Post by **BbB** » Sun Jun 29, 2008 12:26 pm

Cool. But I suppose it's not 100 per cent correct if a shift lens is used in the photo...

How about a modelling/rendering challenge?

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