Chinese Style Interior

Chinese New Year mood was filling the air in the office, so I did this practice job while nothing is on the rush.

This interior scene was intended to present a warm and soft atmosphere.
The fabric presents softness and the lanterns turn the atmosphere into a warm setting with lighting and colour.

Of course, there was minor photoshoping on the lantern lighting effect.

Cassina Prive 241 by Philippe Starck

It's been 3 months since I started working as a 3D visualiser. i hardly have time for myself since working, including updating this blog.

Nevertheless, this time I am presenting my latest work. I modelled this settee based on the real product designed by Philippe Starck. An elegant leather sofa with the challenge of building the tufted cushions and tuning the material, yet it's an interesting piece of modelling work.

The real Cassina Prive 241 31/33G, designed by Philippe Starck:

(Source: Archiexpo)

More info: Cassina

First try on VRayfor SketchUp

This is my visual work modelled in SketchUp and rendered with VRay for SketchUp (v4su) for SU 6. Took me 3 days to learn, honestly, the user interface appears not much different from that of 3DS Max. If you understand VRay for 3DS Max, this shouldn't be too difficult to learn. Unfortunately, some of the work flow are not user friendly enough and I would rather turn to 3DS Max. I wish I can use IES lighting as there's only VRay light provided. And I also wish that the rendered view is not cropped from the seen view. Anyway, it's good to see photorealistic rendering from SketchUp.

Church of Light-Tadao Ando

I tried to model and render the Church of Light by Tadao Ando. The above was rendered with VRay The light effect looks fake as it was done with Photoshop....:(


And this was done with mental ray, looks quite good. Which of the above looks better?

Another practice work

Practise, practice and keep practising!

First try on mental ray

After 2 years of VRay experience, I decided to learn mental ray, the GI renderer that comes with 3DS Max.

After reading the tutorials and trial renderings, I was able to grasp some fundamental concept of mental ray. It's important to understand how Final Gather and Global Illumination work in mental ray in order to get the realistic results. The Arch & Design shader which is designed for mental ray is user friendly. The preset parameters are good enough to generate realistic results.

After several attempt, I came up with this visual which was rendered with mental ray. Not bad tough but I would say that VRay offers a more straight forward solution once the basic concept is understood.

The following visual was done with VRay. It has more realism compared with with the previous one. I believe with more practice, I will create better results with mental ray.

Physical Camera Rendering

This is my attempt using the physical camera for rendering. It's very useful for controlling exposure and creating the depth of field (DOF) effects. I found that the colour is closer to reality using physical camera as the exposure can be adjusted. The first rendering was produced without DOF.

The rendering below utilised the DOF function provided by the physical camera

Study Room at Night

This is another attempt of night scene rendering of the study room, doesn't look impressive though.

Study Room

I am back on modelling again after submitting my dissertation. I did this study room visualisation with traditional Chinese design style. The design intergrates landscaping and interior to create a sense of tranquility, which suits the requirement for a study room. This visualisation work reflects my current desire looking forward for a rest after a year's hardwork.

It's not very detailed as I did this as a practice. It's really enjoyful to do this visualisation. I love the terrace lily pool especially. A space for reading with the aroma of tea and the sound of water, what a luxury!

Study room interior

Study room interior

Terrace lily pool

Bedroom Interior

A bedroom interior scene visualised from a photograph. Not that perfect on the curtain, just tyring out a modelling tutorial. Anyway, I admire the owner of this house, having to be close to the sea and sunshine.

Imaginary Bathroom Interior Design

Another piece of my practise work, modelled through my imagination of a bathroom with open air landscape interior. I'd always wanted a bathroom like this, with natural lighting and ventilation, enhanced with lovely greenery.

Kitchen Interior

This is my practise work modelled according to a kitchen interior photo. It took me one and a half day to complete. The more I practise, the more I realise I have to learn. That's the way of life, isn't it?

Stylish Design Toilet- 'A Pleasure to Sh*t!'

This stylish toilet 3D scene was modelled against photographs I took during my trip to Rome. Since this is just a simulation of the interior, it's not exactly built as the actual one, it was intended to appreciate the interior design. That was the toilet I saw at the youth hostel's reception. I was so delighted to see such a stylish- designed toilet and couldn't resist to take pictures of it. If I have this toilet in my house, it would be a great pleasure to 'sh*t' in it!

Director's Room (Revised)

Director's Room (Revised)

Meeting Room (Revised)

Another view the meeting room

Meeting Room (Revised)

A rivised rendering of the meeting room

Meeting Room

An initial visualisation of the meeting room.

Director's Room

An initial visualisation of the Director's room.

Black Canyon Restaurant

An initial interior visualisation of Black Canyon restaurant.