Thanks for V-Ray Workshop and Evermotion I can present you making of one of my works that was chosen as a V-Ray Workshop Top 5 in July 2013. This tutorial is not about a specific techniques, but rather about general workflow. I hope this tutorial can assist as many people as possible. As always - the trick is not to spend a lot of time to achieve the perfect result but to achieve best result in a short amount of time and maximize the efficiency.
This project was made for architectural firm - Ewes from Sounth Korea.
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Modeling was based on Sketchup and DWG file received from the client
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Glass material - to achieve depth I used a blending material with glass layer and I used a texture with images of interiors
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Road material
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Road textures
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Different materials from scene
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I used cars, railing and street lights form libraries
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I made trees with Onyxtree. I used Vray proxy to reduce the amount of memory
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I used Advanced Painter to place elements on the scene. The viewport is split to two parts - the first is showing camera angle and the second is a perspective view for easy planting.
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All elements are in place (wireframe)
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Camera and VraySun settings
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Street lights settings - street lights were grouped with object and lights, so I could quickly turn lights on and off.
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Interior lights settings and wireframe with all the lights
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VRaySky and Gamma and LUT settings
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Render settings
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Rendered image
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I added a sky layer in Photoshop to set the overall tone of final work
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Applying subtle filter to warm-up thew mood
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To add a bit of realism to water I added an image of waves. I also drew manually a traffic line in Photoshop.
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I used render elements to emphasize specific parts of the image
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My render elements: VRayRawRefraction, VRayRawReflection and VRayRawLighting
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Additional re-touch of the glass facade
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Added some people
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A little more filtering
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Added vignette
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I enhanced atmosphere with lens flare and using Z-depth
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Z-depth channel and lens flare that were used in this scene
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Final color correction and sharpening
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And here is the final work!
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Greetings! Cheol-Min Kim (D-Focus)
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