VILLA ILLUSTRATIONS 2 & 3
Monday, May 30, 2011 | ALEX HOGREFE These are the other two villa illustrations created alongside the exterior night rendering a few posts down. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the kerkythea base rendering used for the exterior image. Like the others, a ton of time went into post processing both images. The clients preferred a really monochromatic material selection of stone and concrete. This meant playing up the stone textures and experimenting with different light tones to add a little interest to the illustrations.
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You will notice I used the wet street look (tutorial here) for the driveway. I rendered the driveway with a simple mirror reflection in Kerkythea, then added a stone texture and smudged the reflective surface in Photoshop to get the final result.
Above: Sketchup image export
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Above: Kerkythea base image rendering
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Exported Sketchup model image
Images in this post property of PAUL LUKEZ ARCHITECTURE.
Reader Comments (19)
Nice work! How do you manage to have a big resolution in kerkythea and to have the same with the same point of view on SketchUp?
Thanks for showing your work and your process.
QUICK TUTO ALEX PLEASE
THANKS THANKS.....
really nice alex, thanks for sharing. you're beating yourself! :-)
@cimo: watch the existing tutorials - you'll find nearly everything you need .. ;-)
btw: keep going alex! greetings from vienna!
Sadra
Spatz,
I really only use the screen resolution for the base images. When in Photoshop, I increase the Kerkythea image resolution based on the Sketchup image export. As I Photoshop higher res textures on top, the image as a whole naturally increases in resolution.
Sadra,
Thanks for the compliments.
beautiful Alex... as always!
Fabio
awesome! its this project going to be built? where can i see the distribution of the villa?
It looks like Chernobyl on April 26th, 1986.
A stark comparison:
http://lh6.ggpht.com/_dlkAw43cLC0/Sco7tQmGUTI/AAAAAAAAECU/bdhbUB-n7g0/Chernobyl-Today-A-Creepy-Story-told-in-Pictures-funfair.jpg
@ atelier.. this is an hdr image... it has really nothing to do with the villa! NOTHING...
It is really offensive to compare this project with chernobyl because of all the sad history behind it, it only gives a negative note to this render which is not deserved!!
I am curious if you do your modeling in Sketchup or do you import from a different modeling program. I know in some of your video tutorials you are using maya (I think).
Thanks!
This is very nice! Thanks for the write up. :))
wao! im really impress with all your works. The art work is truly amazing!
Thanks for posting it up. :)
Hi Alex! I love your blog, its simply brilliant. One question about the render above and some others... where do you get the furniture from? I’m guessing it the sketchup 3d warehouse, and then do you just overlay the materials onto them? I'd love a tutorial on the furniture side of things like that tutorial you did with adding people into a scene.
Congrats on your marriage too :)
These are absolutely fantastic visualizations! Thanks so much for sharing your work and tutorials! Can you recommend any books you read to learn some of the post-processing photoshop work? Thanks Alex!
@Nick,
Your correct, the furniture is almost always from 3D warehouse. They are usually just low poly to keep the overall model lean. In the model above, no material was applied except for the piano. I rendered a little reflection on that in Kerkythea
@Eric,
I learned most of my post-processing from watching Photoshop podcosts. I think one of them was photoshop user tv. There's also a lot of good photoshop websites like http://photoshoptutorials.ws/photoshop-tutorials/
hi Alex, your blog is very useful for me, it inspired me, and your work is so great. I downloaded your Kerkythea base image rendering, and training with what i've learned from your blog. Here is it:
http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll245/boynhangheo_photos/villa_interior_kerkythea_training.jpg
Not good like yours, but i tried my best. Thanks for all tutorials.
Cheers!
and here is HDR: http://i290.photobucket.com/albums/ll245/boynhangheo_photos/xong-3.jpg
You are a god.