Rendering Pro of the Week: A Step-by-Step Tutorial by Sam Macalister

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This week, we’re changing things up by having our Rendering Pro write a guest post about his cloud rendering workflow. Below, Sam Macalister, a technical specialist for Autodesk, visually walks us through his steps—from modelling to postproduction—for creating this striking Caroma bathroom rendering:

My architectural style is minimalistic, so I like to design simple, clean, uninterrupted spaces with a focus on attention to detail.

For this bathroom design I wanted there to be natural light, a central focus, and no unnecessary clutter.

All storage is hidden behind mirror faced cupboards (in this case I used Revit divide and parts, as the aim was to create a quick visual)

The families were all downloaded from the caroma specify site here

http://specify.caroma.com.au/bim-library

The families are great – they have excellent detail, as well as material and plumbing parameters

Quick tip – un-tick the finish bump map as you don’t typically see this on Porcelain.

Basic wall broken up using divide and parts with a 5mm gap (more likely 2-3mm in real world)

For the light well I’ve used a plaster material with a small bump map

For the hidden light shelve I have an array of lights downloaded from Zumbotel

Simple sun light settings set to around mid-day

My personal preference is to work with cameras at right angles, with a focus. In this case I’ve chosen the WC.

Here, my graphic display settings for the view.

I typically set up my render settings in Revit prior to rendering on the cloud.
Make sure you have the artificial lights turned on.

Before committing to using cloud credits (even though I have a lot!) I run the default settings with jpeg file format (this is for post-production reasons).

1^st render – 2 mins

My re-render settings with an environment map, and larger image size with final render quality

Autodesk 360 cloud rendering - about an hour with high settings

Next, I use Autodesk Pixlr Express to do post production http://apps.pixlr.com/express/

I typically use auto fix to start with, then look at the colour settings.

Then a quick brightness, contrast adustment

Focal provides a depth of field (DoF) giving focus to the WC and a slight blur to the background

There are some great effects to automatically style the image – my favourite is Ingrid!

I then add a small vignette

And a light blue colour correction

Then download for final tweaks in Microsoft office – quick auto correct

Brightness, contrast, and midtones. Typically I follow the SLR camera settings for this part (ie. Sunny 16 rule).

Finally a colour adjustment

And one last auto fix!

Here (below) you can see the raw render with the post production image.

And...the final.

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I want to know how did you get 4 million+ clouds credits. Can I borrow few hundred or just tell me the secret on how to get extra. Pretty sure you didn't pay for them.

Posted by: UleBule22 | 02/05/2015 at 09:06 AM