Arch Viz Study - The Farnsworth House (Updates with settings)

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I would like to start a WIP on how to make photorealistic architectural visualizations using any available techniques imaginable. There are a couple of works I had seen that are very hard to distinguish from actual photos. Making these renders to look so believable has already become an art in itself.

I chose the Farnsworth house because there are a lot of very nice renders of it and photographs to compare with. The model of the house I am using was made by Peter Guthrie and it can be downloaded from his blog. My heartfelt thanks to him for sharing such a wonderful detailed model. He made a number of very realistic visualizations using the same model.

At the moment I'm using Sketchup, indigo renderer, GIMP and Motiva Real Camera. I maybe switching to other software packages if necessary.

Some initial renderings, I prepared yesterday:

Sabi ko na nuon pa eh, INDIGO ROCKS!!!!!

Huwaw nice update bro..ganda tingnan pag punung puno ng trees..keep it up

Galaites07 wrote:Sabi ko na nuon pa eh, INDIGO ROCKS!!!!!

Maraming salamat Sir.

ortzak wrote:Huwaw nice update bro..ganda tingnan pag punung puno ng trees..keep it up

Thank you Sir. Ito ang na-mention ko na umaabot ng 20 hrs render time dahil sa dami ng mga puno.

These images were being rendered while I was reading the comments about the overhanging stair. Di ko na sana ipopost pero napagisipan ko na WIP nga ito and the progression of the work must somehow be documented. These are a re-render of another earlier scene. Ever since I made the trees bigger and closer to the house, I kept on revisiting these old camera angles.

Some notable changes:
1. Most of the pine trees had been removed and were replaced with broad leaf trees.
2. Added a tall wall behind the trees to hide the horizon.

Some issues:
1. The regularity of the leaf arrangement pattern on the trees is very obvious. halatang gawa sa sketchup yung mga tree models. Ito siguro yung pagtutuunan ko ng pansin habang hindi ko pa na-sosolve kung paano ma-import ng maayos yung mga 3d trees na gawa sa ibang 3d app.
2. Wala pa yung mga dried leaves na nakakalat at mga bulaklak ng damo.

Some rather uninteresting interior scenes. Just tried rendering another view of the interior at late morning (11:00am) when the sun is almost directly above the roof. A cloudy scene is also added.

Nagkaroon ako ng time na ayusin yung mga dahon ng mga punong kahoy sa scenes ko. Halata kasi ang mga ito na gawa sa sketchup. Very regular kasi yung pattern ng pagkaka ayos ng mga dahon. Ang work flow ko ay ganito: Nag-model ako ng isang sanga tapos nilagyan ko ng maraming dahon. Kinopya ko yung arrangement ng mga dahon sa isang sanga na pinutol ko pa mula sa isang tunay na puno. Gumawa ako ng maraming kopya ng namodel kong sanga na may mga dahon at ito ang mga idinikit ko sa katawan ng puno. At yung ang dahilan kung bakit parang paulitulit yung mga pattern. Iisang sanga lang kasi ito bawat uri ng puno.

Wala akong maisip na paraan kung paano magmukhang natural yung pagkaka-ayos mga dahon kundi guluhin na lang ang pagkakaayos ng mga ito. Sinubukan kong irender at ito ang mga resulta. (naka-off yung layer ng bahay para bumilis ng kaunti yung render time)

Some more interior scenes taken from another camera angle. I guess they are worth posting as 'progress' renders. I'm still using the furniture from the GH house.

I love this thread! So inspiring and I am impressed with all the output and your effort......how I wish I can do this.

Show us more sir...

awe inspiring....

dude ung grass mo ba modeled mo?
ang galeng ng effect eh....pati ung trees mo kaw din ba gumawa?
gustoko ung dating ng shadows, parang punong puno talaga sya ng trees...

wow great update sir, saludo ako sa vegetation and environment mo... very inspiring indigo renders sir!!!

kurdaps! wrote:I love this thread! So inspiring and I am impressed with all the output and your effort......how I wish I can do this.

Show us more sir...

Thank you Sir. Naku, kayo pa, eh sisiw lang yung ganito sa inyo Sir!

torvicz wrote:awe inspiring....

dude ung grass mo ba modeled mo?
ang galeng ng effect eh....pati ung trees mo kaw din ba gumawa?
gustoko ung dating ng shadows, parang punong puno talaga sya ng trees...

Thank you Sir. Ang lahat ng vegetation sa scene from grass to trees ay mga minodel ko inside sketchup. These were originally intended as temporary habang wala pa akong makuhang high quality models. Pero noong may makuha naman ako, nalaman ko na hindi pala compatible sa sketchup ang mga 3d tree/vegetation models na minodel sa ibang modeling app. Faced with this situation I was forced to just stick with my existing models and modify them to become more presentable.

marcelinoiii wrote:wow great update sir, saludo ako sa vegetation and environment mo... very inspiring indigo renders sir!!!

Maraming salamat Sir.

Nirender ko uli yung mga scenes na kasama na ang bahay. Parang nakalimutan ko yatang i-save yung mga ginawa kong changes sa arrangement ng mga dahon sa mga puno kasi parang bumalik sa dati. Lumitaw uli yung mga 'repeating' leaf arrangements sa mga puno. Ngayon ko na lang napansin kung kailan natapos yung mga render. Usually kasi ay iniiwan ko yung pc para magrender. Makikita ko na lang yung result pagbalik ko from work.

Sa next updates, aayusin ko yung grass. Masyadong makintab. Parang plastic.

hangang hanga ako sa mga render mo master,sakin pangfinal mga to!!napakadetalye at ganda ng lighting and vegetation especially yung grass at lupa
salamat sa link pala master!

You are welcome Sir! Thanks again for the words of encouragement.

Nabawasan ko na yung kintab ng grass. Hindi na masyadong shiny na katulad ng dati. At the moment hindi pa rin ako masyadong masaya sa mga trees sa scene ko. They still look so fake.

Nothing special here. Just a re-render of some previous scenes. Ngayong hindi na makintab yung grass, I thought that it made perfect sense na i-render uli ang mga ito.

dude ayaw paawat ha? master ng indigo.... galing ng set, looks real na...

@ ERICK - Thanks a lot Sir. I appreciate it.

Medyo busy ako the past few days. Pero kahit papaano nagawa kong i-open ang sketchup file ng Farnsworth house. Pinalitan ko lang yung time of day and clicked render. And these are some of the results.

A familiar scene but with new unfamiliar lighting. Inirender ko uli yung eksenang ito with a different time of day.

Dude awesome updates again.. hows the render time?

@ ortzak - Thank you Sir! As usual, super haba ng mga render times. nag-aaverage ng 20 hrs! Yung render time nga ang malaking issue kung bakit hindi ko na masyadong maasikaso ito.

grabe 20 hours? try mo sa fryrender baka mga 2 hours lang

photorealistic na...ganda talaga ng unbiased...Ano po ginagamit nyong mncr settings? sabi sa description pang reduce ng noise yun parang magiging somewhat bias...maka maka bilis din ng render? Bidirectional ba gamit mo?

Canadium, i am new to the forum, and because I think the best what is presented here in respect to the indigo and the plugin to put the trees .. I wonder how that sketchup does to support so many trees and not tick the same .. that these trees are very heavy .. thanks ...