[Micha]

Hi,

here a new rendering. The colored windows are photos from my trip to the GDR museum (east germany) last year. This fictive room show a part of my childhood.

[4 HeRo]

Yep thats it alright that will do it
i love the light box well done

[Thomas An.]

Lovely composition ! The lit display box that the bike is sitting on is very interesting, I like it. Also, the floor tile texture is amazing.

[Maximus3D]

Very good work Michael you done it this time! congrats to a nice piece. And there's nothing i wanna crit on, i just like it the way it is. So calm and soothing with the subtle smooth light flowing in and around the scene.

/ Max

[Frances]

Wonderful work Micha. Especially the floor and the lightbox and the trike and the windows...

[tom]

Very nice Micha!

[Micha]

Thank you very much for all the nice words.

I will tell some secrets from this image:

- I use burn 0 (!!!) and gamma 1.5 -> only so it was possible to keep the details in the bright lights

- the lightbox is a MXI emitter covered by a dielectric for the reflections -> this is the fastest way to get a noisefree image (1024x1024 in approx.8 hours)

- the light box MXI texture is a top view rendering of emitters behind a plastic surface with SSS 1 that i have done befor -> so I get in 1 hour a noisy texture image, but denoise and blur make it clean

- I had try to render the scene with a SSS plastic light box and emitters behind only, but than it takes for ever to get a noisefree image (after 20 hours the noise was very strong and the box to dark, so I stoped)

- the dielectric surface and the sss plastic surface on the light box are only single surfaces, not solids

[Thomas An.]

Clever solution about using an MXI textured emitter for the display box !

...and yes, in this case it makes sense to use a single surface dielectric for the box top.

[gadzooks]

I would love to know how you did the light box. Material settings and such.

[Mihai]

Great materials, and thanks for the details. Regarding the view I just think it lacks a bit of focus. I know you're trying to show both the tricycle and the walls....maybe if you use a wider angle and move in a bit closer to the tricycle.

[michaelplogue]

What? No colored plastic stringers on the ends of the handlebars? You got to have those - they make you go faster!



Really great render!

[Micha]

@gadzooks:
(1) place some thin long surfaces (emitters {I have used a texture here to, a yellowish image with darker edges}) behind a big surface (plastic, sss1, abs0, color white);
(2) render a top view of only this;
(3) take this rendering and clean the image per denoise and gaussian blur;
(4) build a mxi texture from the image (3) with an intensity approx. 20;
(5) use a light box with two parallel surfaces same size for emitter (with the prebuilded mxi (4)) and glass for reflections direct above (color white, ND 1.5, abbe 200) - here I miss bump maps for dielectrics
(6) for your ready to use rendering use a burn 0 and a stronger gamma, so you keep the details in the light box texture and you get enough light in the scene

Extra hint: if somebody try to use a light box with a geometrie from (1) direct in the scene, make the inside of the box black. So, less noise will be produced, because the light dosn't bounce so much.


@Mihai: Thanks. I have try it befor. A wider angle bring me to much room distortion and the light of the box get to much attention, because it will more dominant in the foreground than the tricycle. I have rendered much previews befor.

@marumari; Sorry, the texture is a modfied not free texture from total textures. Textures - the workflow in maxwell is a little bit crazy. If I try to get a brighter texture, I must adjust the image and not a scale factor. But we will get it in the future.

@michaelplogue: Stringers? Must be a western variation of the tricycle. Here my one is only like in the picture. In the DDR (GDR) things was most more simple as in the west part of germany.
Thanks.

[Micha]

Thanks Adam, I have thought some times to do that, but first I try to keep the color windows in the background. You are right, it's time to do that now.

[bakbek]

Micha.... Why render the light box in the first place for the mxi emitter ? ? ? can't this effect be done with a simple photoshop drawing... just wondering

can you show as this image maybe ?

[Micha]

For step (1) [see post above] I have used a selfmade texture (A). This is my standard softbox emitter texture for smooth light. I have assign the texture to every plane "tube" surface. I have tested pure emitters too, but the fallof of the texture bring a better look, not so clean, more real.

In the second image (B) you can see the rendered texture. Yes, I could try it in PS too, but I was not sure it will looks good enough. So, I rendered in one hour this texture. It is not so much work and I hoped to get a best result for the texture. My experience with pure emitters has show me, that a simulation looks better than a fake. So, I try to be so real as possible conected with a short rendertime. In my tests I have seen in the softbox light simulation a subtle opalescently effect and I have try to keep it. I feel it give the final rendering of the light box more live. Also it was a test for future projects.

A next step of realism could be to use for each tube in step (1) a separate texture with different color shift and intensity, like old and new tubes. But here I stoped, - after a too long time of working on an image I only want to finish the image. All this small details makes me crazy.



image A


image B