Digital Craft in Architecture

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Was trying to do interior render of blob but large areas of the render where nonexistent and everything else was very patchy, grrr! took a while changing things about and then realised that i had put a bump map underneath the bitmap texture. By deleting the bump map I was able to render again properly so problem averted.

Labels: 3ds Max, Kunsthaus Graz, Sigma, Team Alien

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Light Studio

Just making note that light studio is being a bit temper mental, as everytime we try to do anything it crashes, could be because alot of students using it i.e. bbsc 303 and lighting design. Have reduced the model down to one room but still appears to crash everytime we assign the lightstudio renderer.

Our mental ray images on the other hand are bank with great reflections of the blob which has taken the last week to get the materials just right. We created a bitmap material which we added to one surface then duplicated the facade and added another secret layer of reflective and transparent surface to get the mad reflections.

Labels: Friendly Alien, Kunsthaus Graz, materials, Sigma, Team Alien

Thursday, May 28, 2009

Intial render of blob interior. Need to work on lighting exposure to get light streaming in effect. Also need to make light rings glow as in the real image .

Labels: 3ds Max, Kunsthaus Graz, Sigma, Team Alien

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