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Pool Deck (Week 4) - Filmic Version From the second BlenderGuru Architecture...

Sun, 18 Dec 2016 22:19:13 GMT

Pool Deck (Week 4) - Filmic Version

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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Comments and critique are very welcome.

4:25 hours to render @ 6,400 Samples, GPU

More rendering with Troy Sobotka's Filmic Blender. New balcony railing.

Before, there were quite defined limits based upon the original lighting.

With filmic blender much more range for correction in post is available.

[The 'bloom' on the pool was added in post; the reflections look iffy to me.]

Photo by mramshaw

Reading Room (Week 1) - Filmic Version From the second BlenderGuru...

Thu, 15 Dec 2016 20:31:08 GMT

Reading Room (Week 1) - Filmic Version

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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Comments and critique are very welcome.

[Old software maxim: hardware is cheap, software is expensive]

2 hours to render @ 1,500 samples, GPU [Used to be 16 hours, CPU]

Interiors have extreme lighting so this seemed a good test for Filmic Blender.

You can get Troy Sobotka's Filmic Blender here:

-- https://github.com/sobotka/filmic-blender

I was quite pleased how much of the exterior detail was made available.

I adjusted the colour grade, no other changes. Trying for a wintry feel.

Impressively, Filmic Blender allows for a lot of post-processing.

The highlights can be pushed quite far without blowing-out.

[Check the shadow border, side face of the sofa which used to look a little nasty.]

I am sure the same is true for the shadows. A big thumbs-up from me.

Photo by mramshaw

Reading Room (Week 1) - Revised From the second BlenderGuru Architecture...

Sat, 25 Oct 2014 17:14:12 GMT

Reading Room (Week 1) - Revised

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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Comments and critique are very welcome.

19 hours to render @ 1,500 samples, CPU

I have a much better understanding of Cycles (the render engine) than when
I rendered my first Week 1 attempt.

So it seemed like a good time to try re-rendering this particular scene.

I took to heart some critiques, plus made some changes I wanted to make.

Finally I added a small amount of 'bloom' in post (not photo-realistic but looks great).

This had the effect of creating a small amount of vignetting, which was welcome.

Photo by mramshaw

Pool Deck (Week 4) From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE...

Thu, 09 Oct 2014 22:53:15 GMT

Pool Deck (Week 4)

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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Comments and critique are very welcome.

17:15 hours to render @ 1,600 Samples, CPU

Cycles may not be the fastest render engine, but it does a pretty nice job.

[It is apparently unbiased too, there are many settings to speed things up,
but these generally seem to introduce bias, trading speed for accuracy.]

Check out the nice bounce lighting at the base of the potted plants.

Also I think the lighting on the left of the garden umbrella is quite nice.

[The 'bloom' on the pool lights and shrubbery was added in post.]

Photo by mramshaw

Modern House (Week 2) - 8 bit version, 3.5 MB From the second BlenderGuru...

Fri, 06 Jun 2014 15:42:50 GMT

Modern House (Week 2) - 8 bit version, 3.5 MB

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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6 hours to render @ 500 samples, CPU

I ran out of texture memory (VRAM) quickly, but Cycles can cleverly still use the
GPU to render smaller portions of the full scene (so GPU rendering can still be very
useful). After switching to CPU rendering things were good for a while, but my CPU
and memory (RAM) were not up to the job of rendering a full-size scene with a full
lawn of grass.

So I became very parsimonious with textures and particles, even so the grass here
really lets the scene down quite a bit. And of course the background is as bare as
it can be, and some more foliage would be pretty nice too.

I'm not really familiar with hard-edge modelling, so this was an excellent exercise.
I also learned a lot about asset and texture management. Much room to improve!

My compositing hides the thin grass a little, but I am not really trying to hide it,
this colour grading was pretty much what I was aiming for all along.

Photo by mramshaw

Reading Room (Week 1) - 16 bit version, 10.7 MB From the second BlenderGuru...

Wed, 28 May 2014 22:45:15 GMT

Reading Room (Week 1) - 16 bit version, 10.7 MB

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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6 hours to render @ 500 samples, CPU

(More options for Post-processing with this but I can't see any difference between this and the 8-bit version!)

Photo by mramshaw

Reading Room (Week 1) - 8 bit version, 3.6 MB From the second BlenderGuru...

Wed, 28 May 2014 22:43:31 GMT

Reading Room (Week 1) - 8 bit version, 3.6 MB

From the second BlenderGuru Architecture Academy, PLEASE VIEW LARGE

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Comments and critique are very welcome.

6 hours to render @ 500 samples, CPU

(Less options for Post-processing with this but I can't see any difference between this and the 16-bit version!)

Photo by mramshaw

Simple Lounge Room (freebie) from the first BlenderGuru Architecture Academy...

Wed, 28 May 2014 22:42:55 GMT

Simple Lounge Room (freebie) from the first BlenderGuru Architecture Academy

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Photo by mramshaw