Maxwell Interiors- Day And Night, Benjamin Brosdau (3D)

[k4k]

wow!! which one is 3d and which is real?????
great work on rendering!!! :thumbsup:

[maxspider3000]

i cant belive that :eek:

do you mean that all of them made in d max ????????:eek: :eek:

if they are ....... you did a very nice work man....:thumbsup:

i think that they will be put on the front of the main page ........:bounce:

[rawwad]

F-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c

[dixit13]

Awesome work dude..Very nice modeling and lighting too:applause: ...!! How do you find Maxwell as a renderer, fast and easy to set parameter controls or Otherwise??? Anyways very nice Architectural VIZ , five star rating from me !!:cool:

GoodDAY!!

[Coltzero]

LAIR! you didnt make this, these images are shots from a digital camera. they cant be made in a 3d programm because this is too realistic!!


very nice work! im impressed

[Limponi]

Greaaaaaaaaaaat render

[Limponi]

greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat Render

[Tora_2097]

here are some wires for you.
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_wire.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/klo_wire.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/lehnstuhl_wire.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_old_wire.jpg

[ReBootedOne]

:argh: The realism is overwhelming!
Geeeeeeeeeeez, fannnnnntastic work!

-The ReBooted One

[isigraphics]

really realistic! if maxwell will render in the next releases it will be the no.1 for realistic renderings.

[greyface]

Very nice rendering, although it might be a bit too grainy. Funny that you used neat image to reduce noise that you created? =)

desty

[JHarford]

wow...very realistic... nice work. and some great touches with the flashlight.

[magsnus]

Im surprised that they rendered withing 9 hours, thats very fast for being maxwell, (or any renderer for that matter ?) especially on that first pic with the glass "vase?" on the lower shelf, mustve used about 15 bounces or above to get that one to behave properly? good ligtning setup and props to you is the only answer i can find to that! :)

great work, but if it was up to me one "flashlight" pic wouldve been enough dont care to much for them..

[Jasper Lammertink]

Only 3 stars for this? what kinda noobs are voting in here? 5 stars! this is just awesome

[Tora_2097]

@magsnus: Most of the images reached a sampling level between 16 and 22 within the given timeframe.
@AI-X : I didn't create any noise, it lies in the nature of maxwell that your render appears VERY grainy at first and becomes finer and finer the longer you let it render measured in sampling levels. neat image helps to reduce a littel of that reamining noise.

[PMikk]

I am working on a project with maxwell too, and with a 2,2Ghz AMD Athlon the renders take forewer, I have to use 15 bounces too. How could you render this with 9 hours?
Maxwell can only be used for still images, animations are impossible, and it limits the artistic approach to CG, it still has only few shaders to choose from, no skin, SSS or configurable shaders. Not good for characters, but in my opinion it`s still a kickass renderer for still images and architecture architecture. PS. look at the glass table in the third image the refraction is wery high on my renders too.

[Tora_2097]

@PMikk: Well, I am running Maxwell on a Dual Xeon 3.2 GHz machine with 2Gb of Ram which surely makes a difference in terms of render time. I agree that maxwells texturing/shading abilities are somewhat limiting but its still alpha and is already able to produce really outstanding stuff.

[DynaRaton]

Super Work. Amazing.
Thanks For Sharing!http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif

[wybl]

Damn, this maxwell renderer really is convincing me. If i didnt knew better i thought at least 4 of those images where actual photographs. Shit, this is fantastic.

Is this magic renderer availible for 3ds max 6? If so, where?

[dahiya]

"4. Critiques and responses to images are to be constructive and related to improving the quality of the artwork."

...aaargh!

[almaghool]

Woooow very great work :argh:

[Raffi_1]

wow ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, fantastic , amazing . . . :thumbsup:

[petteer]

Another Maxwell Render blowout! Fantastic! What about adjusting camera perspective correction on 1st 2nd and 4th image a bit?

[tomaa]

SIMPY AMAZING! I am speechless... so realistic!

[formoso]

maxwell looks nice but those render times are to core for it to be used in a motion peice.

[KaDDD]

fine ! !very fine , specialy the flsh style ( WOoOW ) :)

[JocHaan]

waaaw !!!
great render , it is TOTALY AMAZING :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

[ashakarc]

Stunning renderings. Even for a well trained eye, it is fooling. Congrats!


best,
ashakarc

[simoncheng]

this is real? it really reach the realism level. another revolution in cg industry.
do maxwell support other cad plug-in? autocad viz/solidcad/ironcad/rhino ?

[makaka]

WOW... man, is realy great render!.... CONGRATULATIONShttp://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon13.gif I'm a maxwell's user and is very good enginer, but is very dificult make a clean render in 4 Hours... I think that your work is a 5 stars job...

Fantastic and amazing photorealistic render http://www.cgtalk.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Tora_2097]

thanks a lot guys!
But i think there is always something left to improve so I'll continue working on them a bit more and maybe I do a high res version with less grain of the first kitchen.
@petteer: what do you mean by adjusting camera perspective? can you plase explain what should be changed in your opinion?
regards,
Tora

[Gorg]

I'm getting myself maxwell! :D
The grain doesn't bother me that much. The feeling of reality is amaizing! It has a rich, warm ambient.
Great work! 5 stars definetely!

[vkiuru]

Awesome. You've really nailed it :) I've enjoyed every second of Maxwell. The fact that the alpha is slow has not bothered me one bit.. Although with these hyper-realistic "flashlight"-renders floating around the web it's getting pretty ridiculous; great lighting being so easy to achieve, there goes my only excuse for being such a poor modeler ;) I've done a few like these myself, and I think it's safe to bet that altough there are still new tricks to discover with Maxwell (and more to come once we get the SSS), making cleaner meshes will be my nro one priority from now on. Once again, great job!

PS. I hope to see more animations rendered with Maxwell in the near future, wink wink ;)

[Crewler]

Wow, bin wirklich beeindruckt.. Leider is Maxwell noch nicht für C4D draußen, bis dahin aber bewunder ich deine wirklich extrem guten renderings :> :thumbsup:

crewler

[squall_svk]

great renders, tora. if you plan to rerender 1st pic, please remove that ugly texture mirroring on the right ;)

this thread deserve front page plug !

edit : oops, i was talking about 2nd pic ;) anyway, pictures are great

[-CCFly-]

really stunning work :thumbsup:
how did you achieve such a realistic lighting?

:bounce:

[PUR-C]

Holy mother of..

The renders with that flash light effect are totally awesome. Damn you !!..
Kudo's and stars for you.

[StevenBHS]

awesome.......how long did it take you to finish all of the models, very detailed

[emptyvoxel]

I am working on a project with maxwell too, and with a 2,2Ghz AMD Athlon the renders take forewer, I have to use 15 bounces too. How could you render this with 9 hours?
Maxwell can only be used for still images, animations are impossible, and it limits the artistic approach to CG, it still has only few shaders to choose from, no skin, SSS or configurable shaders. Not good for characters, but in my opinion it`s still a kickass renderer for still images and architecture architecture. PS. look at the glass table in the third image the refraction is wery high on my renders too.

...and it's still in ALPHA release. I don't see the point of critiquing it until it's in beta, but to each their own. And animations aren't impossible, merely time prohibitive. :rolleyes:

Anyone who's interested in the renderer can check it out at www.maxwellrender.com.

Anyway, these are great images. You and Eldo are creating a unique and cool style with the digital flash look. Keep it up!

~T

[jbf]

Great work....... but I see only one minor problem, the second render pic. It's seams that your table leg is going right through your chair(Center Chair). Just thought I's point that out.... other than that it's all amazing work. Keep it comming...

[anand3d]

wow - was that cg or real ??!! , can u pls give some tips and tricks on cg lighting

[michaelz]

OK OK .. Im a newbie. and have a question..

I have never rendered before so when you say 9 hours to render just 1 of the photos (Does that mean you let your computer sit there for 9hours not touching it or 15 hours like some of you say. Do you leave it over night?



B/C if so I think im going to have to buy a new SUPER POWERD FAN for my Radeon 9800 video card.. When I use Maya for 3 to 4 hours it starts to get really really hot

PS really nice work.. How long did it take you to model all of those?

[leiluparker]

Great stuff man! You might want to consider adding some dirt and scratches here and there, though I wish my kitchen's this clean. :D

[beeline49]

Unbelivable!
Really?Is that maked with 3D?

[gkimpton]

Amazing work!!! At first I thought 'Who is he trying to kid' there's no way we will see any wires of these things, cos they are just pictures.


But then I scrolled down and my jaw hit the floor

6 Stars

[BMAXTALK]

Oh my god... this and really cg why if l did not see Wire l l said taht he was really... perfct.
100% compliments... 5 stars... exelent work....

[nachofrades]

Absolutely magnificent, this renderer is more close to a photographic camera than a computer...

Spanish Technology Power !!!

[lechuga]

Please, I just bought the Maxwell for maya, and I don´t get it... I need it for some visualization an you are great. My request if that you post all the values for the configuration in the maxwell render.

Gracias | Thanks

[BooMer86]

awsome !!
:bounce:
next limit rocksssssssssss :bounce:

[conceptx]

This is good and my fave are the wireframe version I love wires lol ;):applause:

[stephen2002]

Holy! Those are some VERY impressive renderings. I saw the first shot, was like "ok, that is CG", scrolled down, saw the one with the flash, and was like "oh, that must be his referrence shot". I looked some more and realised that it was another render, absolutly amazing. The daylight sences are impressive, but those flash shots are jaw droppingly realistic. You could walk up to anybody on the street with one of those and they would never know the difference. Outstanding job!

[-Vormav-]

Awesome job, Tora. When I first started looking through the images, I suspected that the second image was a photo used as a reference shot (^^) for the lighting and modeling of the first. Pretty convincing. ;)
I was going to comment on the noise, but I guess I can understand that now that I have a better grip on how Maxwell works.

[Sollesnes]

neat work. Amazing rendering. Great done!

[tntcheats]

Completely and utterly unbelievable--I was having trouble seeing which were photos and which were 3DS at points. They all looked like photos, just the renders looked like ones taken with a better camera.

[wavestone]

yeah - congrats for the award... can´t crit anything - looking realistic ... what else to achieve?

greetings,

wave stone...

[bahamuts]

Well , if havent seen the wire I would say they are photographs
Greaaaaaaaaaat rendering :bounce:

[JJNK007]

this is such an amazing ability, it looks sooo lifelike and even with the imperfections as real life....


coltzero u dont kno what ur talking about, hahahah taken with a digicam....?

thers one spot i noticed that lets u know its not real life..... (first picture, bottom right, dog food/water bowls, thats the clue)

[higgins]

I've just tried this render. What can I say. Nothing extraordinary really- great render times on my P4 3000 1GB ram . Extremely easy interface with few (for alpha ver is ok) options only. But what made smile- is true-to-life model of light, you know - Watts and Kelvins and all that stuff about the sun. You can even set the time of day to calculate the sun, ozone and water in the air- that's string guys - but still needs a lot of work. And that grainness is just killing me...

[BluePulse]

Man...Congrats. on a steller set of renders! The flashlight lighting is truly unbelievable..well very believable! With that kind of lighting, you should be able to create some horrifically disturbing "creature in your house" scenes. Thanks for posting these.

[Mumia55]

I am amazed of your perfectness , you are really good on making cenaries in 3D look like photographs, congratulations!

[JonArts]

just allow me to post a silent: wow!

ok,...and a "Thank you" for showing what's possible! :)

[z4n]

very beautiful... but I'd like to know why the day and night versions of the image are different in some particulars... like the wood texture and the camera position in the first render... the wall color in the second and the camera position and the chair pillow in the third (in this case the modelling is very different) ... sorry but the only word how to define your renders is "unbelievable". :rolleyes:

[delta wolph]

Nice, my only complaint (and it's minor) is that the wood floors in some of the pictures looks like it would be very painful to walk on (barefoot). Other than that, spectacular work!

[Cobra1979]

This pics are amazing, looks really like photo to me, really well done! :buttrock:

Hope i will be able to do something like this one day.

[wx84530]

3d ????? real?????
it's so great!

[artworxz]

These are the most realistic renders i've ever seen. Keep up the good work..!!

[and883]

Wow..! oh ohho.....very very impression..

[fuplus]

:thumbsup: fantastic...

[Aooogah]

Awesome work, gotta love the Maxwell Rendering System, eh? I would invest in it myself but 6-9 hours per frame is way too long for animation, LOL.

[3dstar]

Wow! Simply 'real'istic.Wonderful rendering.:thumbsup:

[ajitkoodily]

It has come out very well!
Keep it up

[nubbie]

omg, how real! amazing as u produced both different copies of the same piece
awsome!:bounce:
:beer:

[Paratron]

Sieht ja echt mal GE-NI-Al aus!
Wie lange hast du gebraucht um das alles zu basteln??

Grüße aus Deutschland! ;)

[sakhkalyan]

Interesting flash effect, I hope Maxwell soon became much faster.

[ZayneoO0]

VERY VERY VEEERRRY NICE ! i love the flashlight photo effect it accually fooled me the first time i looked over your renders, i thought they were just reference pics!? Veryy nice 5 star all the way *****

[purewind]

i can't breath!

[MaraxCruz]

Amazing! I am totally impressed. Great work!

[todd4cgi]

Nothing short of amazing! I use Cinema 4D and can't wait to get renders the quality of this.
Brilliant work!

[ToddD]

Beautiful, but those render times are beyond impractical- especially considering the powerful pc used to create them. If they get that rendertime down to the likes of the competition this renderer will be a serious contender.

[DavidRyan]

Good``````i Like It ``````

[Bazman]

WOW! That's great, really realistic.

There's something funny about the glass table in the third render. The fourth looks better. But maybe it's just me...

I really love the lighting, espacially on the chair of the fourth render.
If it is supposed to be made with a camera with flash, the shadows of the lamps in the second render seem to be out of place.

Oh yeah, why the noise?

I think render times of 6-9 hours for this quality is reasenable. I've made a car that rendered longer than that, and didn't look half as cool as this!

Great work!

[Firestorms]

ok i am thinking about crit ok ı found something

GREEEAAAATTTT! :thumbsup:

[mstl]

woow...amazing work man. I like it :).

5 stars

Excelent

[freshdb]

Simply amazing, probably the most realistic interior renders I have ever seen. 5 Stars!

[mariachi82]

Great Great Job!!

/me Runs To D/l Maxwell For Testing

[NinjaFredde]

Inspiring! :) Great work!

[wake show]

very good!

[ffourier]

nice job, love the grain

[williamjazz]

Wow~ that's really amazing, I thought that the flash style ones were just reference pics at first, theI found they were 3D after I notice the title was "day and night". you are really a genius ,keep working man ,5 stars !!

William

[williamjazz]

You are a genius man, I really like the flash light style pics, they looks so real , I thought they were just reference pictures at first and second glance. they really fooled me. by the way, the day style for the kitchen looks a little bit too bright and too beautiful, may be a little bit darker will be more perfect and realistic. anyway Great job~~ Five stars!!

[MacSlow]

I've seen some other very impressive Maxwell-rendering before, but still your work along with this new spectral-based rendering-system is most impressive! The huge rendertimes set aside I'm sure spectral-rendering is the next big thing in CG towards total photorealism. One can assume that the further development of Maxwell will improve its speed and if studios want to use this for motion-picture work... well they have mindboggingly large render-farms, don't they?

Now what really itches me is to get to know when and how the other big names in render-engine technology (e.g. Pixar and Mental Images will react to this new player) will react on this new "threat".

For sure 5 stars from me :)

Best regards...

MacSlow

[ARTECH DESIGN]

Great Work !!!

ı Realy Wonder How U Dİd The Lightning And Could U Tell About How U Use The Maxwell Renderer.

Thanks

[Deletedaccount]

It's so fine, It looks so real, magnificent!

5 StarzZ, for you great work!

[Tora_2097]

thank you all very much for your nice words and comments, I really appreciate it.
I did never expect to get such amount of attention for these renders since architecture tends to become less famous compared to other more well... artistic images.
Creating all those images took me quite a while of course but there is no magic to them. Maxwell has only few parameters (coming from a Mental ray background) to adjust and you just have to stay as close as possible to real world measurings. The rest comes almost from itself (and a fair amount of photoshop maybe. :) )
anyway, I am now working on a new set of renderings including exteriors and they should be finished within the next two weeks I hope.
Meanwhile I did some refined versions of my first kitchen scene, here you go:
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_filtered.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_flash_final_big_filtered.jpg

regards,
Tora_2097

[koruski]

I really like you're work:thumbsup: ...but which one is the CG and Photo ?.:)

[yayapewn]

What has been all done 3ds A ~~
Very strong! !
Praise oh to praise

[euclidius]

my god! that is amazing! btw, is there a way to bake the shadows and light maps in Maxwell?? like in Mental Ray?

[PO-8]

nice work, not interesting at all for me, but exceptionelement bien fait, wow! :thumbsup:

maxwell fait pas que du mauvais café, il fait des rendus magnifique aussi!

good work man!

[inxx]

Yeah!!! This is stunning indeed. The pictures are a bit grainy, that's true, but gives the picture even more realism. As if it was shot on an ISO 400 film. In the last pics graininess has disappeared and the backlighting seems even more warm than in the first picture.

This really is a fine piece!

:applause:

[geoffrey]

Very realistic looking daylight render. Newer version is much cleaner without the grain, but looses something. Can't quite figure it out.
Haven't read all of the posts so sorry if I'm repeating other peoples comments.
Perspective is odd at the base of render (the glass jug looks stretched)
Slight AA issues

IMO the night time is an excellent render of a poor photograph (meant as compliment!)

I like the modern looking chair render on the first page too.

Tempted to buy maxwell as it's cheap, but I do love vray. Don't think I could handle the render times on my PC either.

Anyway, excellent renders

[joelku]

it's by far the most realistic stuff i've ever seen.....Great job man:eek::bounce:

[DJ_Laszlo]

Well...let me put it like this...if the night renders were original photos I'd puke on them...those spot on over exposured flashes just makes me wanna bang my head into a wall - but accomplishing those "cheap" lighting effects with 3DS max is a whole different thing...sometimes perfect isn't the only way to go appearently...awesome work - keep it up!

[ihabkal]

I am absolutely jealous, absolutely amazed and absolutely wondering how when and where...

I love these renderings.

thansk for sharing

[@ureliogomes]

A big work, congratulations, seems real, is very good! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[StefanoTsai]

My God! are they really 3D works ? or Photos? That's really Amazing, Man!
COOOOOOOOOOL! Great Job!

[Amilton Diesel]

That's really reallistic. Let's keep the eyes in this Maxwell render. I Have a good thought about it

[windtunnel]

very well done!

[pandya_gaurang]

[QUOTE=Tora_2097]http://www.cgnetworks.com/gallerycrits/40795/40795_1114273744_medium.jpg

Title: Maxwell Interiors- Day And Night
Name: Benjamin Brosdau
Country: Germany
Software: (Other), 3ds max, Photoshop

These are my tests done with 3ds max 7 and along with the alpha version of next limit`s maxwell render.
Render times ranges from 3-4 hours for the flashlight style images (thanks to my buddy eldo for his research work here ) and 6-9 hours for the daylight images, rendered on a Dual Xeon 3.2GHz with 2 GB of ram HT enabled. postwork in Phtotshop for final adjustments, noise reduction in Neat image software.
thanks for watching. :)

http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_flash_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_old_daylight_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_old_flash_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/lehnstuhl_daylight_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/lehnstuhl_flash_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/klodaylight_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/klo_flash_final_web.jpg
http://www.ag-systems.net/images/default_10_filtered.jpg
hi you have donw a very very good job can u please tell me witch other software did you used i m want to do this type of job please let me know? what plugins & light possition ? thatks
gaurang
gaurang_tejal@yahoo.com

[pandya_gaurang]

i don't belive must be some trick ???????
it's 22222222222222222222222222222 realistick
if possible please send me this model
gaurang_tejal@yahoo.com or send me your cont. info........

[euclidius]

I was studying some of the rendered images, then I noticed this one http://www.ag-systems.net/images/kitchen_old_daylight_final_web.jpg is it just me?, the glass table's refraction level is a bit off?? that one sorta bothered me, is that an easy fix in Maxwell Tora_2097 or is it just a rendering error in Maxwell?

[amipretty]

most of these look like photos... amazing stuff... sounds like maxwell is quite slow which is a shame... but then if it produces images like this...

[archangel123]

that is the most hyper-real work i have ever seen! :eek:

[chilombiano]

It`s a great render..i have been trying the maxwell and there is no good info about it..off course..is in alpha stage..but maybe you can make a simple tutorial for it..
i think it would the first one on the net..some people, included me, would very happy..
maxwell could rule in the future.
there are some subjects like material settings that works very bad still ..texture formats and that kind of things.
thanks a lot.

[Moonblood]

i like the cupboards realy realistic

[cathedral]

Great work:thumbsup:

[dkHamburg]

Amazing, unglaublich, fantastisch.

Your Attention to detail is great. It could not look more real.

[gumfx]

great ! very impressive.

[CarlosMac]

very nice indeed

[emdiesse]

Erm...

Now i am confused, you have doubles of some, obviosly there is a difference, and i can see that. However, i'm confused. Is one a photo and one the render, or both renders.

Your work kicks ass, i can't even dee whether its a photo or a render. YOU ROCK!

[one]

very well done!!

[gf_022]

Amazing work, it very really can I live in.:applause:

[revilo3D]

oh man.. that is scary - the top two images are almost idectical to my mates kitchen.. serious. Same layout, colour, center bench, windows,, even the the door handle openers!!!

what was your reference?!!

[CGIVisuals]

If anyone is interested the new photoshop CS 2 has a noise reduction plugin that does miracles I was testing it out on that first kitchen render works like a charm. Just thought I would add that.

Nice work on the renders. Very nice stuff. :)

-MAG

[ray-lee]

realy light

[dolphinzzz]

great work . i like it very much.:thumbsup:

[LAURO_MX]

I thought that was a photo man!
Great job, 5 stars.
cya

[vivien82]

:argh: argh!! excellent!!! but i think i will die waiting 9 hours for my rendering when i start using maxwell!! really lovely renders man!

[breakerdrea]

I think the 'too much flash' shots are hilarious!!

[Neejoh]

That's pretty impressive!

[cubensis]

Voted 5, I can't tell which are real and which are CG!

[Ieppy13]

Wow that is truly amazing... I am actually lookin` forward into getting in an Interior Designing College, and I would love to learn wat u just did man... its awsome :D

[q163p]

Support your work!

[PiTbullero]

WOw this is very GOOD ! well done.. Awesome

[invert]

Voted 5, I can't tell which are real and which are CG!I wiash people would read and stop repeating the same thing over and over again. Its all 3d. And even though the maxwell render is good, its still not great. I see reflection problems, and other sorts of things that give away its cg. but thats my opinion.

[oopper]

GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEAAAT work!
I give five stars!

[MEITRIX]

really nice work. well done. but the night vision seems a little fake! But anyways, i like your works.:thumbsup:

[rizky]

intoduction iam rizky
your works is very great, good, nice, and look like real
congratulations

[tatione007]

:buttrock: Great Light....e textures...Bravizzimo

[bQvle]

Very nice, dont know if you are aware of it,
but on you nr. 3 picture (from the top) your chair seat texture is a little stroked, plus the leg of the table go directly threw the seat of the chair.

but otherwise it looks very good.

[tapija]

i still have doubts obout which is a photo and which is a cg
awesome, 5 stars!

[Alexander K]

Very nice. Kinda grainy though(especially the 1st render still) but nevertheless it's still fascinating what maxwell can do for us.
Thank god that the new beta version is much more accurate and less time consuming.

[todd4cgi]

The "daylight" kitchen may be a tad too grainy, but the nighttime below it is exactly how a camera would interpret that scene. Quite amazing render, actually. I could swear I was looking at picture in most of those renders. Then again, if you photographed the daytime kitchen using 100 ASA film chances are it would have that kind of grain.

Be careful regarding complaints about grain. So many 3D artists fail to include grain in what are supposed to be photo-realistic renders. You can't fault them for not having experience in photography. But, if you're trying to make your scene look like it was photographed with a camera, then grain is your friend.

If you have any doubts about grain, take some of your family pictures and blow them up to the size of the pictures at the beginning of this thread. Looky-there, it's grain. :)

[Tora_2097]

I might add that the grain you see in all the images hasn't been done in post but is a maxwell specific issue. If you let it render for a longer time the grain disappears. (maxwell will render as long as you want it, or you specify a desired sampling value. The image appears somewhat grainy at sampling level 1 but the grain gets weaker with every new sampling level reached. Though it might take an enormous time to get from sampling level 20 to 21 for example.

[todd4cgi]

I thought that might be the case. The grain more closely resembles Photoshop's noise filter then the RGB grain from photographs. Though it's still somewhat effective acting as a sort of grain to bring that "photo" look to it.

I look forward to purchasing Maxwell one day. It's re-creation of photo-realistic lighting is unmatched from anything else I've seen to date.

[Alexander K]

I tried to recreate a flashlit scene with maxwell but I couldn't do it. As far as I know I cannot use any MAX lights since the illumination is taken care by maxwell itself through the "Environment" rollout.

[Ahmad elward]

hi man realy u r number one for me keep working like this u r the king in this site

[narutochen]

GEART stuFF !!! damn no more to say. hope to see more work :0:eek:

[hotsoup]

This is incredible, man. Great work.

I'm pretty new to this but this is exactly the kinda 3D projects I'm looking into. Not-too-complicated modelling. Photo-realistic shots.

Any tutorial? Any other resources available? Thought process before/during you did all that?

[sos518]

hahahahahahahah i like

[kellyw]

Oh,my god,your image looks like photos~~
can you send me you kicth's model~I want to rending it~
Thank you~

[seanr]

That is some of the best lighting I have ever seen! The night shots are absolutely incredible!! I thought I had the lighitng thing down pretty wel until I saw these, now I feel like a total newbie!!! :D

[mudfox]

Really sick stuff. Can't believe that. U did F-U-C-King so good job man.

[SeeLynX]

Holy! Those are some VERY impressive renderings. I saw the first shot, was like "ok, that is CG", scrolled down, saw the one with the flash, and was like "oh, that must be his referrence shot". I looked some more and realised that it was another render, absolutly amazing. The daylight sences are impressive, but those flash shots are jaw droppingly realistic. You could walk up to anybody on the street with one of those and they would never know the difference. Outstanding job!

Awesome job, Tora. When I first started looking through the images, I suspected that the second image was a photo used as a reference shot (^^) for the lighting and modeling of the first. Pretty convincing. ;)
I was going to comment on the noise, but I guess I can understand that now that I have a better grip on how Maxwell works.

wat does it mean?? mean all that pic below not a reference shot? omg, thats porposely make us confusing.... AMAZING work!!!

[SeeLynX]

You are a genius man, I really like the flash light style pics, they looks so real , I thought they were just reference pictures at first and second glance. they really fooled me. by the way, the day style for the kitchen looks a little bit too bright and too beautiful, may be a little bit darker will be more perfect and realistic. anyway Great job~~ Five stars!!

Well...let me put it like this...if the night renders were original photos I'd puke on them...those spot on over exposured flashes just makes me wanna bang my head into a wall - but accomplishing those "cheap" lighting effects with 3DS max is a whole different thing...sometimes perfect isn't the only way to go appearently...awesome work - keep it up!


OMG!! none of then was a reference shot?? thats awesome.... u purposely make it look like camera shot n try to confuse us??? U DID IT!!!

AMAZING work!!! keep it on!!

[vccad2009]

The detail is great

[Nylz]

Absolutley nice work! These are really some of the best/realistic renders i've ever seen in my entire life. I can't say it enough - very nice work!
Just great!

[Nylz]

No question: 5 Stars!

(I forgot to add the scores in my post before, shame on me!)

[Caffeinemonkey]

Very nice work,
but those render times are pushing unusable in production.

[avocade]

Very nice work,
but those render times are pushing unusable in production.

AFAIK Pixar renders (with RenderMan) usually push around 80 hours per frame on their film-quality stuff. And they seldom use higher res than around 1800x500 (~2K 2:35 size). So this could surely be used in production since they now have network render and collaboration render built-in to v1.0.

Very nice stuff man. That flashlight render of the kitchen had me fooled for several seconds!

[CupOWonton]

AFAIK Pixar renders (with RenderMan) usually push around 80 hours per frame on their film-quality stuff. And they seldom use higher res than around 1800x500 (~2K 2:35 size). So this could surely be used in production since they now have network render and collaboration render built-in to v1.0.

Evidence? All the render times Im finding listed by people are in minutes. And people using renderman software are exclaiming about intensely fast render speeds.

[oceanbluesky]

Nice technical work. Why did you do it?

[Myliobatidae]

AFAIK Pixar renders (with RenderMan) usually push around 80 hours per frame on their film-quality stuff. And they seldom use higher res than around 1800x500 (~2K 2:35 size). So this could surely be used in production since they now have network render and collaboration render built-in to v1.0.



Ok someone help me out here, I'm really tired, but I think a two hour film would have like 216,000 frames right ?? 7200 seconds X 30 frames/sec, so how many years would it take at 80 hours X 216,000 frames ???

[mverta]

Well ths is why ILM, for example, has something like 10,000 hours of processor time each night!

_Mike

[Ohlda]

Hey Man, I have never seen interior-renderings with that natural realistic look. Your stuff is fantastic and I wonder why the rating sums up to only 4 stars

this is 5 stars

m°

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