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I got a nice new business opportunity here. A client is starting a new premium webshop for carports. Nice stuff, good market for it as it seems.
So he needed lots of renderings. Around 250 products are my responsibility. They also asked for a 30sec. rendered clip showing several things in 3D.

I had to offer a good price of course and can't charge several hundrets euros per image but the demand was also to deliver photorealistic quality.
Thats why I'm happy about Octane Render (once more) and the streamlined 3dsmax integration combined with the possibility of doing non PMC calculations.

I work mostly in a modular manner. Using around 20 basic scenes with a set of vegetation I place the new carport from .3ds format in a scene which fits well to the shape and camera angle of the carport, do the roof modelling and rain pipes, swap material-id's for walls and ground - press render - go to Photoshop, apply a basic filter action and adjust it a bit - save, sent to client - next one.

Each frame is around 3-5min. rendertime with DirectLight in GI mode on my two 580GTX cards on 1280x720px.

Here is a small collection of shots:









And the three shots for their commercial. They will integrate it into a 3min film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaUx96kilW4

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Elvissuperstar007 wrote:bad decision

@mbetke: nice work! approx. how long did it take you to setup a single scene?

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Haha Mr.Eagleeye.

@t_3
Around 20 minutes from start to finish. Doing the roof and rain pipes is most time consuming. But no "three click" plugin for roof creation. So I use a template and adjust rotate and cut it. For some roofs I model it. Doesn't take long but pretty repetative.

Elvissuperstar007 wrote:bad decision

what exactly is a bad decision?

jamestmather wrote:

Elvissuperstar007 wrote:bad decision

what exactly is a bad decision?

... think about what happens if it snows someday

Hi there !

Nice one.

How do you get this natural feel for the daylight?
I get the feeling that every time I use sun/sky it produces a sort of global blue-ish tone to the whole image...
Whereas in your images it looks as it should - i.e WHITE

Could you share your environment+film settings, or any other tips?

Many thanks, and congrats again !!!

I don't touch the sky light a lot. its mostly post-editing in photoshop. Just a bit of glow, sharpen, curves. not much. FOr camera settings I handle it if its like a real digital photo camera. I raise ISO a bit if needed.

But mostly I use photoshop. Some standarized stuff where I even use an action.

Many thanks for your reply.
I tend to do pretty much the same kind of thing (using Photoshop a lot to get the levels and "whiteness" right)

I'm currently asking lots of questions about the light in the forum, because somehow that's the bit that I can't get perfectly right.
But I'll get there !!!

Cheers !

Yes you can select the "whitest point" on your imag ewith photoshop very nice. Its called "Weißabgleich" in german...no idea whats it in english..white comparison or so.

Its okay you ask. This what forums are made for.