[feynman]

Thanks, Mihai!

Yes, I'm always on the lookout for realistic looking furniture CGI, especially the tricky shapes one cant't cheat (cylindrical tubing, flat coated/lacquered tops and fronts, endgrain on wooden parts, etc.) but everything is very poor looking usually - or the renders are cheated by packing the environment with carpets, accessories and whatnots ;) Seems like clean formally descriptive but still enticing looking images, like in a Swedish or Italian high-end furniture catalogue, are extremely hard to achieve; need to keep practicing...

But the link you've put in from that Russian guy looks VERY interesting - HDR images of real photo lights as we have in the studio. For useful furniture design renderings, these might indeed be much superior to these lousy DOSCH HDR images. Do you know how these photo lights should be best used/applied in a Maxwell Studio scene?