First render in 3d max...

[Anonymous]

Hello,
This is my first render in max. Model is done in ArchiCAD 10, and then exported into 3d max, where are done textures and rendering...
Any coments?

[Dwight]

Very pleasing to the eye:

unearthly luminosity - good, entrancing
inexplicable lighting - bad

if you meant to show a photographer's stage set - okay
if you meant to be describing actual space - bad

The trick in making an engaging view is controllling the light to enhance a space's three diimensional form.

[Djordje]

Where is Bowman?

[Anonymous]

Well, this is my firs work in 3d max, so I have to admit that background is bad, maybe lighting...
But I have to say that I didn't understand Dwight's comment at all

Any other advice? What do you think of the quality of render?
And one more question(maybe little offtopic): Is the quality of the render the most important thing in architecture?

[Dwight]

To know if your rendering is good or not, I need your answer to:
"What's your story?"

The values behind good rendering are not obvious. In determining whether a rendering is good, we need to know the story intended by the designer.

Do you feel your image describes an architectural space? Or not?

What effect on the design do these factors present:

Time of day?
Weather?
Wall color?
Texture of the space?

Let me list some ideas about what makes a rendering good:

1: It actually seems like a real space where light behaves with correct physics. Yours looks like an oversoft photo studio with magic lighting.

I dislike this approach, but if it is the way you want to tell your story, then okay.

2: The composition captures the eye. Once you look at the image, it directs and deflects your eye path to a circular entrancement where you become enamored and hypnotically sign the mortgage agreement. "Composition" is as important as materials and lighting. Even simple exposure tests should show the effort of composition. It is like when I did my first prison. I asked the boss "What's the design theme?" He said "Kid: Keep 'em in!"

3: The story. Entourage and lighting should create a specific mood. You think like an art director to establish mood. Our work is not just a bunch of stuff in space. It aligns with people's life concept and to make good illustrations the designer must deliver the expectation.

4: Finally: Does it make people say "Yes?" Does a lay person engage with it?

So, to address your "is rendering everything" question, my answer is "Yes, rendering IS everything as long as it authentically shows the ideas and spatial qualities of your real design."

The reason I say this: architecture IS primarily about what you see, and the feelings produced from sight. I don't know of many conscious efforts to make architecture an auditory experience, except that big halls should echo to create awe and concert halls need precise decay rates. And the sensual? Touchy velveteen and swede-een stuff stays in the boudoir. Mostly we make slick, easily cleaned surfaces.

It is all about "story."

Assignment to students: Read Robert McKee's excellent screenwriting book "Story." Then 1000 words on "How modern cinema affects design communication."

[Anonymous]

The whole idea of this render was a test scean, just to try to get good quality of image. There are a few things in the sceen, just to make it more intersting
Dwight, thx for the comment...

[Dwight]

Sure,just a test, but now you'll want to bring some informative character to the lighting so that it begins to look like a real space?

[Anonymous]

Well, yes, but I dont have enought 3d expirience

[Dwight]

The art area I refer to is one of judgement, not technical experience.

So many of our users seem to have never looked at an architectural magazine for the composition and lighting effects the pros use.

It is one thing to control light, another to know when it is good.