Another try in v-ray...

[Anonymous]

Hello, this is my second render in ArchiCAD + 3d max. I would like to hear your opinions about it. Render time: about 30 min...

[Dwight]

Thomas wrote:
In movies, they put an orange filter over the whole window pane.

The reason that the movie people put the orange film over windows during daylight hours is for color balance, not exposure. Since their floodlights are tungsten-based, emitting yellowish light, and movie film is adjusted accordingly, the blueness of daylight must be warmed by the orange filter for the outdoors to look realistic.

This is also evident in daylight type film where an orange filter is placed in the film emulsion - that's why negatives are orange.

Things are changing. There are new movie lights that emit daylight color lighting - hi-frequency fluorescent lights that don't flicker on camera. No more orange windows....

For example: http://www.kinoflo.com/

[Anonymous]

I am quite corrected, a tweek is a sound made by a bird perhaps. The blush is mine

[Thomas Holm]

Dwight wrote:
The reason that the movie people put the orange film over windows during daylight hours is for color balance, not exposure.

I know... I forgot to mention the gray filter to reduce glare... You can't be perfect all the time...

[Dwight]

We just don't want to see newguy renderings with orange glass lessn' its a coffee house with a '70's theme.

A good point, the grey glass. Looking from inside at modern windows with special internal laminations and gas filled cores, the glass seems way less transparent in cold climates. An almost "Suckoutyereyeballs" feeling.

[Anonymous]

Burginger wrote:
I am quite corrected, a tweek is a sound made by a bird perhaps. The blush is mine

That would be a "tweet" wouldn't it?

[Dwight]

Not too much drama in it.
The modern Sylvester would be able to sneak up on Tweaky Bird because he was focused on his keyboard.

(ominous music builds)

Sylvester the cat rounds the corner pressed low to the floor.
He sees Tweaky Bird silhouetted in the light radiating from Tweaky's display.
Empty bird seed boxes and cola tins are scattered around his chair.

Tweaky: "Just want to get that light cone down adjusted perfect. AAArgh!"

[Anonymous]

Little update, what do you think?

[Richard Morrison]

HUGE improvement! (Although I would be very impressed if you could get that degree of color saturation in reality.) If you're going for photorealism, you might want to de-saturate the red wall a little bit.

[Anonymous]

I like it. I have a similar red on a feature wall in my home.

Amazing how much difference changing the over-exposed window made. I'm not totally sold on the background image used, but a big improvement.

[Dwight]

Richard wrote:
HUGE improvement! (Although I would be very impressed if you could get that degree of color saturation in reality.)

I'm programming this today. Red enough for you?