Friday, September 25, 2009

Another rendering

This was the third and final submission for this model. This was my first project using a renderer that does global illumination, and was complicated by the fact that it had to be presentation board size, at print resolution. I simplified the process by breaking up the image into light groups. I used Blender for modeling, the GIMP for compositing and texture synthesis, and Inkscape for a few patterns. It was rendered with Yafaray.

A high resolution version and some process images are in this Picasa album.

2 comments:

Mr. Alex said...

I'm digging the ceiling detail in the third-floor landing. Is that from the initial render or did you add it later?

Pete said...

Thanks!

The July version had most of the geometry in it. The September version had a good week of geometry editing, but they were redo's and "God will see it" details.

The rest of the time was spent with materials, lighting, and rendering. There was a lot of trial-and-error with that. The interior light passes ended up being photon-mapped and the exterior pass was path-tracing. Each pass tied-up my computer for about 16 hours. There was only one other computer in the office that had a hope of finishing, so I installed 64-bit Linux on it and put it to work. I really enjoy modeling, but rendering against a deadline is very stressful.