Crazy that it has been 3 years already since Alex Roman released his seminal film, The Third & The Seventh. It still sets the standard for arch viz films, and arch viz stills too for that matter. Looking forward to receiving my copy of the book. Well done Alex!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.thirdseventh-book.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "From Bits To The Lens" Book -- Beautiful 120+ hires imagery artwork, philosophy and processes behind the shortfilm in a 232 pages large format book. Help funding my next shortfilm through the book. All the book sales incomings will be destined to financing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- .Fullscreen it, please. A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal. Credits: CG |Modelling - Texturing - Illumination - Rendering| Alex Roman POST |Postproduction & Editing| Alex Roman MUSIC Sequenced, Orchestrated & Mixed by Alex Roman (Sonar & EWQLSO Gold Pro XP) Sound Design by Alex Roman Based on original scores by: .Michael Laurence Edward Nyman. (The Departure) .Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns. (Le Carnaval des animaux) Directed by Alex Roman Done with 3dsmax, Vray, AfterEffects and Premiere.
The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.
A beautiful image sent to me by Mourelas Konstantinos (@mourelask on twitter) which uses the very dramatic 1853 sky from my collection.
Moody sky, fog, trees... ticks all the boxes for me. Love it.
More about the image here.
Thanks to Jacinto from Metro Cubico Digital for sharing these excellent renders produced for Hyde + Hyde Architects. I always love seeing your images made with my HDR skies so please keep them coming.
Sky used: 1941
Sky used: 1554
Sky used: 1313
Sky used: 1313
Sky used: 1554
Sky used: 1554
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Some more nice new work in my inbox this morning, this time from Mouton Burger (Mot Renders). What is a little bit different with this work, is that it was done using Cinema 4D. Good to see that my HDRi skies work just as well in c4d as they do in other packages.
The sky Mouton used was "1941 Dusk Blue", and here is a guide to using HDRi skies in cinema4d together with vray:
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General: In c4d project settings, LWF should be disabled and the color profile set to sRGB Vray Color Mapping: Check the LWF tickbox and set the gamma to 2.2
1. Create cinema 4d arealight 2. Add vraylight tag to it
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3. set the intensity to 1.6
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4. Go to Area light tab and set the Area type to Dome
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5. Add your Sky hdri in the texture slot and set the color Profile to sRGB
6. Insert the hdri in a Filter shader and set the gamma to 1.0 (or 0.75 if you wan't to boost the strength of the sun like this tutorial) 7. Add a vrayphysicalcamera tag to your camera in order to control exposure, depth of field etc.
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Looking for inspiration? May I suggest having a look at ArchitecturePasteBook curated by Andy Matthews (photographer, architect). I for one am thankful for the work he puts into it as it saves me a LOT of time trawling round the blogs! (and it seems we have a very similar idea of what's good and what's not so good)
I loved these images by James Pickford even before I learned he had used my skies to light them. The dusk ones are absolutely spot on in terms of lighting and colour balance. James works for the excellent Uniform in Liverpool and did these as a personal project. They are based on the Lake Lugano House by JM Architecture in Italy. You could easily sneak the dusk images in amongst the photographs on the architect's website and no-one would notice.
He used 1957 for the dusk images and 1008 for the overcast one.
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Really interesting to see some non arch viz work being made with the help of my HDR skies! These beautiful renders were sent to me by Andreas Fougner who works in the video game industry and is based in Stockholm, Sweden.
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The sky he used was '1342 Cloudy' and you can find the complete set of images on his blog: bullfinch visuals.
I always enjoy seeing images made using my HDRi skies, so I was delighted to see these lighting tests arrive in my inbox today.
These are from George Nijland (Triple-D Visuals) who was kind enough to let me share them here, and who has been experimenting with the reduced gamma HDRi workflow that I blogged about here.
The skies he used (from top to bottom) are:
0743 Cloudy Morning
1725 Sun Clouds
1954 Dusk
I love the moody morning one, must try to use it more often!
If you have been using my products then I always appreciate an email to show what you have been making, and I might even share them here.
