Making Of

By Jeff Mottle

The Making of the Reading Room

The Making of the  "Reading Room" with HDRI lighting

Hi guys, my name Arie Kurniawan, this my first "making of" tutorial. I want to thank Jeff Mottle for giving me the opportunity to share my tutorial on CGarchitect. Today I will explain my very simple practice interior render with HDRI lighting.

OK lets just begin.
 

PREPARATION


For all of my projects I set my gamma for LWF (Linear Workflow) to get a correct brightness and because I want to do post production on my image.



 

MODELING

In this scene I used ready made models for accessories, so I just modeled the wall, floor, window  object using basic edit poly. And I created a simple decorative cloth model in Clo3d 2011.

Fix model for camera view.



Book case for reflection on the mirror.



Cloth made in clo3d 2011 and the floor made only from a simple box.


LIGHTING

As I said before, in this scene I am using HDRI lighting with Vraylight Dome+HDRI map. You can see my method in the image below.



You only have to set the mapping type to spherical, horiz. rotation to control the sun beam direction, and gamma to get a correct GI, sun and strong shadow shape.

This is the simulation using different gamma values:



Increased gamma can make a soft shadow effect and weak sun lighting. Decreased gamma can make the shadow look sharpen and strong sun lighting.

Of course it is not a fixed setting. Different scenes require you to set different gamma values and also different horiz. rotation to get the correct lighting in your scene.
 

CAMERA SETTINGS

Just simple setting for my vrayphysical camera.



 

MATERIAL AND TEXTURING

There are a lot of advanced materials that I use in this simple scene. I only use standard method color selector to set the diffuse and reflect properties.

Wood Floor

Red leather



Fabric



 

RENDER PRESETS

Here are my render preset settings:



And this is the final raw rendered image:



Z-depth map image:



Reflection map image: 


 

POST PRODUCTION

In this process I only use a simple technique for post production. I like natural colors in my rendered image.

1. Color correction using color balance and curves and then add little bit of diffuse glow.



2. Blend with a reflection map


3. Add a Depth Of Field effect using a z-depth map

4. Chromatic Aberration



 

FINAL RENDER RESULT

That's all of the post production and this is the final result:



I hope this simple "making of" will help you and you enjoyed reading it. And of course feel free to ask and questions. Thanks to everyone and best regards from an Indonesian 3d artist.

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Awesome work, how long does it take to render this image, and what is your machine hardware? Thanks for your reply.
blessi bro..
thanks its helful...
amazing tutorial, effective workflow. thanks for sharing...
that's awesome works. Thanks for your tutorials.
bravo!! thanks for sharing
good job..
I might know what machine you use for rendering this? thx... btw very inspiring work..
Thanks, simple and nice post production. The images with gamma 1.0 and 2.2 are correct, if yes, this is the first time i see almost no difference between 1 and 2.2!! I usually add Reflection in Screen and Add, interesting to you another approach ;) Best regards,
thanks pep, It is a simulation of the gamma setting HDRI, the extent of gamma setting affect the shadow effect, but for the LWF i using gamma 2.2 setting. best regards
Jeff Congrats. I have a question, can this method about hdri and vray light dome be appied for exterior lighting setup? have you tried it before. I'm just curious because the effect is much better compare to vray sun at the same time there's a cloud background.
Thanks Gus. yes you can, you don't need to add a vray sun to form the shadow effect of the sun, you just need to set up the value of gamma in HDRI setting (material editor), increase value of the gamma to make the soft shadows of the sun, and reduce value of the gamma to make the shadow of the sun seem to be more sharply
Nice simple tutorial.. i really like the cloth in marvelous clothing designer.. I have One question.. what is your workflow of the book.. Just simply modelling, and add just a diffuse map for every single book? Greetz
thanks kas yensz, its a ready model book from the internet..
thanks all for the appreciation :)
good job
Amazing work dude.... Hidup Indonesia!! >.<
cool!
Jeff Congrats. I have a question, can this method about hdri and vray light dome be appied for exterior lighting setup? have you tried it before. I'm just curious because the effect is much better compare to vray sun at the same time there's a cloud background.
I'll let Arie comment on this as he is the one who created this scene. I just posted it.
Thanks, simple and nice post production. The images with gamma 1.0 and 2.2 are correct, if yes, this is the first time i see almost no difference between 1 and 2.2!! I usually add Reflection in Screen and Add, interesting to you another approach ;) Best regards,
awesome making off, congratz!
Jeff Congrats. I have a question, can this method about hdri and vray light dome be appied for exterior lighting setup? have you tried it before. I'm just curious because the effect is much better compare to vray sun at the same time there's a cloud background.
Very good, thx!

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