A new project in my vizualisation gallery: Chelsea Square by Wilkinson King Architects. These images were for marketing purposes and were lots of fun to work on. The building was modeled in Sketchup and all textures were made from scratch from photographs. As usual with my projects, there wasn’t much post work in photoshop (apart from the cross section).
The caustics in the pool were calculated with all the glass hidden, saved and then the glass was turned back on for the final render. The actual water surface was modeled by dropping a ball into some reactor water, totally over the top I know!
I wanted the brick texture to match the existing building as closely as possible so I took photos of the end gable brick (in the shade) and then painted over every brick in photoshop. This was so that the displacement map worked correctly in displacing the bricks outwards while recessing the grout slightly, and also helped in the reflection map to make the grout less reflective. The traced bricks layer was used as a mask to lighten a greyscale copy of the diffuse layer. Painting over bricks in photoshop is as about as boring as it gets, but worth the effort.
Tags: architecture, archviz, sketchup, vray
wow, peter, pool looks totally amazing… nice interiors also…
from now on, all the water that I model, i will be dropping a ball into some reactor water.. whatever that means….
sounds like a science fiction, or something from nuclear fusion physics….
Sweet work. Great texturing and caustics. Are you going to make night version too?
What are your thoughts about VrayRT after finishing this project?
Beautiful set of images. Very clean, Very Clear.
Great to this update! These look fantastic. This pool looks like a monster of a mesh!
Brilliant renders. I love it when someone uses over-the-top physics to simulate a simple water surface.
super cool
If you don’t mind asking did you use Vray for SketchUp or you imported your SU model to Max?
Brilliant images! Clean & Sharp.
thanks for the comments! Night version is already done, will upload soon. This project was completed before vrayRT was released, it sure would have been handy, especially in setting up the lighting. Adam, it was modeled in sketchup and then imported into 3dsmax.
Beautiful renders mate.
I’m intrigued by your comment that you don’t do much post in pshop as it seems these days everyone photshops their renders to the extreme.
You ever consider doing paid tutorials?
Very clean renderings, well done with the water physics!
Very good work indeed.
I have a question about the operation method between sketchup and max. I´m working in an architecture bureau and some of my collegues still modelling with sketchup in various cases. So, I had to work with the exported modell (dwg) in 3dmax and this wasn´t really funny everytime. Tons of blocks, groups and layers. So, I want to ask you if there is a more practicable way to export a modell to max. How do you do this? Thank you for help.
thanks frieder, I recommend you take a look at Ronen Bekerman’s blog. There are lots of tips there on sketchup to max. Essentially though what goes in must come out. If you are serious about improving your workflow when working with sketchup models then its probably best that you acquaint yourself with modeling in sketchup and then train your colleagues to model cleaner and more efficiently.
Incredible work, the water is perfect. Thanks for your tuts on the grass !
i am sure we all appreciate the little details that you have put in for all of your works. no matter the size, you took the time and made the image just so much more. Of course, the final works are as fantastic as your usual; so, not much to say on that. Keep up the good work and thanks for the inspiration, PG!
WOuld you think you could tell us a small tutorial about how to make the caustics setup?