Chinese Lantern

During Chinese New Year, it is common to see beautiful lanterns hung everywhere. They make a big difference to the festival atmosphere by creating a warm and pleasant mood.

This scene was modelled in 3DS Max, rendered with VRay and did some post production with Photoshop.

The lantern fabric itself is Vray 2 sided material, with the red fabric as the front material and VRay Light material as the back material.

No additional lights involved although I thought would make the scene nicer.

Happy Chinese New Year to my readers!

Finally...

The completed rendering with some adjustments, rendered using VRay Frame Buffer.

Evermotion Rendering Competition

Recently I came across of this rendering competition organised by Evermotion. The other participants are EXTREMELY highly skilled so I don't expect to win anything.

Anyway I joined with the hope to improve my skills and learn the rendering techniques from others. In fact, this is my first time doing exterior night scene.

Work in progress:

Rendering with DOF:

中國風. Chinese style

My latest visualisation work with traditional Chinese architecture. I tried to use the water shader (ocean lume) to simulate the water. The water generates caustic effect though the effect is not good enough. I use mental ray with mr sun+mr sky. I found the mr photographic exposure quite useful and comparable to vray physical camera in terms of usability and function.

中國風. Chinese style

I love the Chinese style pop songs which incorporate the traditional elements into the music. Jay Chou's music is one of the best example. This had inspired me to do 3D visualisation with Chinese elements. This visual was done based on a photo of Chinese style landscaping, with mental ray and daylight system.

The Pinnacles Interpretive Centre

When producing exterior rendering, I always use the render engine's daylight system. For VRay, I use the VRay sun and VRay sky; as for mental ray, I use mr sun and mr sky. The daylight system produces good results for exterior rendering.

The following images are rendered based on the photo I took at the Pinnacles Interpretive Centre during my visit to Australia. I love the play of shadow on the timber frame.

mental ray: mr sky+mr sun

VRay: VRay sky+VRay sun

The Pinnacles Interpretive Centre

Photomatch & Exterior Rendering

An attempt to practise photomatch technique and exterior rendering based on photograph. Looks different when compared to the original photo but that's fun!

The original photo

Rendered picture