Villa and condos

[otacon]

These are some images from a quick turnaround project i worked on this past week. It's a big development project in Nicaragua. We had a pretty tight deadline, so theres some things that could be tweaked, but here they are. Comments appreciated.:D

[BigHache]

Great work. Aside from the modeling, that entourage must have taken a minute to composite. Were you working from a landscaping plan or was it just what looked good?

[jakuzaa]

Looks great. Only thing that makes me wonder are people and tree shadows. It seems they don't correspond with original shadows. It doesn't change fact that this is great composition.
Palm trees along the street on the second render are 3D, right?

[pienri]

Beautiful images as always,
you could give us some information on light-setup and especially for the third image (villa) as you have obtained the material for the grass?

thanx

[Pavlov]

great as usual.
imho vegetation needs some care, most in the two pics. Light comes from side-back, so all trees-palms are far too saturated and have too high gamma. i'd make all these darker and less contrasted, but i also understand clients want always to make it look "happy" ;)

Paolo

[luciano]

uao...:)

Beautiful images.


Luciano Peluccio
www.vis-art.it
info@vis.art.it

[kopperdrake]

Lovely images :D

Those deck chairs look familiar ;)

[otacon]

Thanks for the comments.

I agree about vegetation looking a little off. For me its tough to get the 2d stuff to look perfect without a lot of time. We had some rough sketches of the landscape plan, but they changed it around at least twice per image. Client wanted a lot of color and lushness with a variety of different plants, so i had to pick through our library, and not everything matches lighting wise as you know. The palms on the street in the second shot are 3d. All the other plants are added in piranesi and then touched up in post. All the grass is added in post. as well as some other touch ups.

These are rendered with fprime, monte carlo 2 bounces, skylight plugin for sky fill. IMO this setup will get good exteriors every time, and you can always tweak color in post a little.

kopperdrake, i'll be using those chairs often.:D

Heres an image showing the straight fprime render, then after piranesi, then final.

[kopperdrake]

Ooh - I'm new to Piranesi - how does that help your workflow?

[Hopper]

Absolutely love the house! Incredible as usual.

[Larry_g1s]

Impressive Jason. I really like this style too, love the lush landscape and pool water. Great work. Do you have a higher res. of the 1st image, I'd love to see the detail?

[otacon]

Thanks.

Piranesi is a program that allows you to easily add plants and stuff...among other things. Using an epix file rendered out of lightwave you can add trees and move them around in 3d space while piranesi scales them and automatically masks them behind objects. Its kind of hard to explain, but its cool.

Heres the full res compressed a little.

[kopperdrake]

Thanks :P I'll have to check it out!

[SP00]

Wow, looks great, but I was wondering why not use 3D trees instead of 2D trees? I'm sure there are low polygon trees that will look great from a distance.

[Larry_g1s]

Wow, thanks Jason for posting the high res. Doing arch. viz. myself, it's always fun to see the detail, kind of like a "where's Waldo", just checking everything out. The water looks great, and I like the grass texture on the hut. I love it, you even got people on the upper deck of the hotel, really nice work. Thanks for sharing. Do you have a link to that Piranesi? Nice that it scales too.

[Matt]

For a short deadline that's impressive!

[otacon]

Thanks. Our waldo is wearing a yellow shirt in this one...

I used 2d trees because of the tight deadline, i had to be able to easily change them out without having to rerender the scene...in case client changed things around.

Heres a link to piranesi. http://www.piranesi.co.uk/

[SP00]

Ahh, gotcha, that actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks.

[guardonduty]

You need to submit your project to piranesi.co.uk so they can add it to their gallery. Some of their samples are very week. Excellent Job. Could you have used Vue to achieve this. I understand the time constraint. Here's a less than what you achived, from me http://www.newtek.com/forums/attachm...9&d=1211288582

[Ron Schatz]

Fun images, I want to go next week and lay poolside :thumbsup:

I would like to ask you,

Are using LW's classic camera and 32bit or something else?

You show Fprime to epix file? are you getting an epix file out of Fprime3? This would be nice if so. Piranesi 5 is good as long as the depth channel comes, but not in LW64, or do the Informatix boyz have beta working.

Thanks
Great fast detailing.

[otacon]

Thanks. I actually render out a quickshade epix file from lw at the same resolution, and then import my .tga fprime image into piranesi over top of the quickshade epix. I'm using 32 bit lw...i was unaware that lw64 had issues with epix files.

[Ron Schatz]

Wonderfully simple idea, just to show there many ways to the job done.
And yes the current lwepix.p can't be loaded into a 64bit Lightwave, I have emailed B. Woodward to get a new plug-in but no response back to date, even much of the newer cameras don't line up or work in 9 anyway. If you or 2dimes I.T. can help get more LW support, that would be great. I think a new thread about this issue will be started sometime today.

[Iain]

Very nice Jason.

The buildings and lighting are excellent.
I'm sure you'd like to veer a bit edgier in your final compositions as we all would but only architects seem to want that.
The developers got stuck about 10 years ago in midday disneyland.

If I sound bitter, I am!

[Scazzino]

Wow, Great job as always! :thumbsup:

[3DGFXStudios]

I think it look super cool, but just one thing. The swimming pool on the roof has rooms underneath it. How does that work. Or is the pool just 10cm deep?

[Maxx]

Thanks. Our waldo is wearing a yellow shirt in this one...

Is he afraid of the purple balloon, or is he going to kick it? I can't quite tell... :D

Great render, btw.

[IMI]

I really like those pics. You know, I got relaxed just looking at them. :)

[DiscreetFX]

Nice job!

[Pheidian]

hahah, are you guys serious about the waldo zapping under the palm tree?! :) I mean doesnt quite fit there, but I guess architects dont even notice that kind of detail there, very nice detail ;)

[otacon]

Thanks. Not sure about that pool on the roof....architect get what architect want...they kept changing so many things i never even thought about it.

Yellow shirt guy stays in as a joke, he's actually dancing.

[Svenart]

This is very beautiful work. I like it very much, specially the first image.

[aHead]

This is indeed a very beautiful work! Paradise destination for holidays trip.

[rafalkurc]

Spectacular!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!