The Phoenix Flowers is a new public realm intervention by 7N Architects in Glasgow, Scotland. I worked on the 3d visualisations in September last year and was very interested to see photos of the completed project by my ex-colleague and friend Dave Morris. At the time I remember being happy with my work but not completely sure how 'real' the images looked. As it turns out, the red carpet and flowers are even more intensely coloured in reality! Take a look at the full set of Dave's photos here, below are a selection for comparison. When I saw Dave's photos I felt I had to go back and render a couple of extra views, so the 2 below were done to try and match his compositions.
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For me, the interesting things to notice were the relative intensities of the highlights (how the Canon 5D dealt with them compared to vray), the colour of the lighting behind the grilles (goes towards yellow in reality despite being red) and that I was pretty lucky in getting the flower petal material looking about right.