[Eric Lagman]

Here are some renderings I did on a recent project modelled with Solidworks and rendered in Studio. The subject matter may be dull to some I am sure. The goal was to update the look of this huge bandsaw machine station used to cut thick steel rod and tubing. The goal was to keep it close to the original just give it a little extra something. http://www.doallsawing.com/band_saws_de ... C&cat_id=3

I used a HDRI and a floor with concrete texture. I then composted the modelled floor with the floor in the image in photoshop to ground the object with the background HDRI. Modelling was done in day and half, and rendering in two days. Getting the materials right took most of the time. I was very happy with the result. V1 seems to work great for this type of stuff. By the way it cleared up in 4 hrs at 1600 x 1200 original size. Please feel free to critique. I think I might have went too far with levels and washed the images out in photoshop. Doh!

[Thomas An.]

Well, if you didn't tell us it was a render, I wouldn't know ... (mayne I am too tired to spot any errors )

[Tim Ellis]

Nice modeling and render, but I agree it looks a little washed out.

I did my PS trick, hope you don't mind:-




Photoshop> Auto contrast> Equalize> Fade Equalize with Soft light blending.


Nice job on the composition too.

Tim.

[Eric Lagman]

Tim that is much better thanks for the Photohop tips. I knew something seemed off, but what you did just made them much better in my opinon.

[hyltom]

Good one
...excepted the environment. Personaly i prefere your picture than the ones of Tim.

[Thomas An.]

Yeah, I kind of like the "washed" out version too.
(sorry Tim its just taste)

[Mihai]

Great renders! The photoshop ones are a bit too contrasted, something in between would look better I think....

[sandykoufax]

Very nice renders and wonderful background environment stuff.

[JDHill]

The subject matter may be dull to some I am sure.

Not me!

Modelling was done in day and half...

...now you're just showing off.

If anything changed, I'd maybe combine the floor (polished concrete always seems to have some really dark areas) in Tim's rendition with the rest of the original...overall, it looks real nice though, and it's...

...coming soon to a J&L catalog near you!

[Tim Ellis]

no worries, each to their own. (This monitor might not have helped much though.)




Tim.

[Daniel Hruby]

looks great, but there is a forshortening happening that messes with the scale of the object. I think somehow you need to get the perspective (focal length) to match that of the photo. Then the object should get smaller at the same rate as you look into the distance. .... Just a thought.

Looks right out of the box though!

[Pierre Caron]

Nice pics.
As Daniel Hruby said the machine looks very small and seems to be very close to the camera (almost like a macro photo shoot)

[Maximus3D]

Wow that's some great modeling and photographic rendering waaaait a minute.. these are photographs, aren't they.. ?

Beautiful work!

/ Max

[bisounours]

hi, great work...

Any French here who could tell me the translation of 'Fade Equalize' & 'Soft light blending' controls in CS, thxs

salut,

si j'ai bien compris...

1) duplique le calque de fond
2) sur le deuxieme calque applique un contraste automatique...menu, "image=>reglages=>contraste auto"
3)sur le deuxieme calque applique un egaliser...menu, "image=>reglages=>egaliser"
4) sur ce meme calque choisie un mode de fusion, =>"lumiere tamisee"
5)joue sur la transparence du deuxieme calque pour augmenter ou diminuer le contraste


je viens de le faire j'obtiens un resultat similaire...

voili voilou

a+

[tom]

WOW! I cannot keep my eyes in their places