OTOY Forums

Hi,
I'd like to share the work of my thesis project. C&C welcome.
"The market is the square - A square can become a market, a street can become a market."
Project is located in Piacenza, Italy.

Modeling: MoI3D.
Rendering: Octane Render 1.5 for 3DSMax. Having limited time and resources, it was hard to deal with the grain.
Everything was rendered in Diffuse mode, 1 or 2 bounces depending on the scene, 1500-2000 samples.
Music choice: sorry in advance for the Italian music. To highlight the characteristics of our archetypes, an Italian song was used. It speaks about love, but in my case it is talking to the architecture of this place.
The Chinese lantern? I went taking picture at the project area, when I saw two strangers flying a lantern. It symbolizes everyone who would desire to live a place that has always been corrupted.




Thank you Octane Team,
Massimo.

Really really REALLY like it man!

Love the camera work, the lighting, the mood. I can sense you have some cinematographic skills and you use them veeery well!

Congrats man! Great job!

Thank you very much. Yes, I tried a cinematic approach, of course it has a lot of flaws, yet it was a good experience.
M.

I like the style

Love it, love it, love it

Thank you!
M.

very good Massimo, bravissimo
i love the photography and the use of the b&w solves also the remaining noise, well done
only one thing, the lantern's material should have some transmission or sss in order to be lighted from the lights.
p.s. Puccini is the perfect choice
ciao beppe

A job well done! This is very impressive and I agree that the use of B&W solved some of the grain problems. It also give the piece an old world mastery feel and choice of music definitely adds to production.
While I agree that the lanterns could have a bit more translucency they are very well done and get the message across.
Thanks for sharing.

Very very nice! complimenti!
It 's the kind of directing that I love.
Dolly, dolly everywhere
Ciao Andrea

Thank you everyone, I'm glad that you enjoyed my work. About the lanterns, yes I know, I also flied a lot of them in the real world to understand the movement, however the material I used is wrong. I made some tests with SSS but I couldn't get the right effect, and was generating some hotpixels I couldn't remove easily.
Thank you,
Max.