Lighting Challenge #29: Pixar Tribute: Gusteau's Kitchen (Ratatouille)

#221

Well, this is my new update. I changed the texture on the walls, I’m doing variations on another wall.
For now I render in Maxwell SL 13, used 200 iso, 15 Sutter, most of the light emitters 40 to 60 watts in general.

@kanooshka - Yes, you’re right and Andarra also advised me to have a focus on something. I’m still looking for a good camera position. While seeking a position I see another improvement in the textures I have to correct. @Assadshk21 - It will be a pleasure to see your update.

@ Djprasun - sauce that does not seem … looks like blood! ha ha ha. I like your version.

#222

This is abou80% complete… I need feedback to do the last 20% of improvements…

#223

Im pretty happy on how my CG Challenge turned out, I learned a lot while doing this. I appreciate all the help you guys gave me.

Here is my render

This one is after some tweaking

I’m not sure which one I like better, but I like them both, I hope you guys do too.
All the C&C are welcomed

#224

Hi I haven’t post anything for a while but I still have been tweaking it. Fist of all i must say I’m not looking for a photorealistic render in here I’m letting some shaders pretty simple in order to create something a little bit cartoonish but still a 3D aesthetic.

Here is the before i made some tweakings to de colors in the scene:


By novuh

this is the version with corrections, depth of field and some post production: I’d really like to know what you think about it. :slight_smile:


By novuh

#225

Work in process

#226

This was my last attempt at this challenge. Even though I can´t compare my results to some on this forum, I believe I developed a sensibility for lighting in a 3d environment. I aimed to make this scene look like an old film picture. Besides paying special attention to that, I added a few subtle materials. Thank you very much for your advise.

#227

final render of my kitchen

#228

A classmate of mine, Ywan, who has no internet access asked me to post this for him:


By nine99haze at 2012-03-30

#229

This is my entry image, Thanks.

#230

this is cynthia alfaro´s final render

#231

Hi everyone, this is my version of this challenge, I hope you like it :slight_smile:

#232

This is my final render, my last post on this incredible challenge, hope you like and greatly appreciate all criticism.

#233

http://imageshack.us/f/443/ratatouillefinaljg.jpg/

#234

http://imageshack.us/f/443/ratatouillefinaljg.jpg/

#235

This is one image, but I hae to work a littlebit more in the textures, this is the lighting presets.

#236

Here are my lights, but I need to work in my textures.

#237

A key part of the look of the movie is the rich saturation in the dark tones.

On the previous page, niravsheth posted some art from the movie along with his render. Look at the right wall, how richly saturated the purple is, even in the shadow of the shelf. There’s a CG cliché of having your shadows and occlusion go into dark grays and look desaturated that needs to be actively countered and fought in many places to keep this look.

Right below it, Assadshk21 has an even better example of this. He has a still from the movie posted along with his render. Look at the side of the visible side of the stove that Colette is standing at. Even the reflections are a rich red color, and under the stove the shadow tone is a red amber. Compare that to the render where the shadows under the stove go into gray and black. I can’t say all the shadows need to be lightened, because the area under the far stove in the distance seems very bright as if there’s a light leak, but certainly some warmer reflections and shadow tones could be added in many places in the image.

Also, take a look at the ceiling lights. If something is really bright, it should proceed from a desaturated white at the core, just in the brightest spots, out into a more colorful warm brightness outside the core, with more saturation as you move into dimmer tones. For a light that bright, a little bloom that could be added in post could better integrate it into the scene. On the right side of the render, there are warm colored heatlamps on the ceiling, the reflections of those could use a little de-saturation in the core, just to show that they are brighter than the pots they are supposed to be lighting on the screen-right side. Once you have that warm light in the area, there should be warm bounce behind the heatlamp reflectors, and warmer light on the bottles and spoons below it, as well a warmer tone on the food cooking there.

-jeremy

#238


I’ve worked the textures and shadows, I was working with the bokeh as well as the volume light but both of them were greatly increasing render time without even looking good enough, I’ll have to figure out what’s the problem.

#239

Hi you all! this is my post for the CG challenge, I still have some thing I would like too fix but for mather of time I woul fixed until vacations!, I enjoyed alot the challenge, before I didnt knew how to put lights!, now Im in the way!, Thank to all the people that helped me with the advices! :slight_smile:
http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/7470/finalnibokitchenratuil.jpg

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#240

Hello! It’s been a while since my last post and I really made some huge changes, I took your advice to switch the color intention and it actually worked really beautifully, at least it was more pleasant for me.

Now this is the final version (still open for changes and such), after all I did since my last post I tweaked the lights a little more, and the overall ambiance and enhanced some of the white spots with pure spot lights and some more punctual lighting. After I start seeing the results of it and got happy with them, I began to work on the render time, after a couple of tweaks I got from 30 min at 640x380 (yeah, that’s a lot but it was due to the parti volume I used) to 20 min at 1980x1080 (a really huge improvement)

After the render was done I wanted to add just an extra step, so I mixed it up with some post film grain and just a touch of chromatic aberration to make it look a little bit more like it made a “pop!” Small post lens blur and thats it. Hope you like it