Renders of a Chilean Building (Finalist for Mies Van der Rohe prize)

tricky · December 17th, 2003

This was a college asigment (due yesterday) of planning/modeling/rendering an existing building and i choose this one, Manantiales Building, that was a finalist for the Mies Van der Rohe prize.
It was modeled using Autocad 2004, since the plans were done there and i needed the precision i cant find in 3DS (or that i dont know how to use yet...). Renders were done in Max 5.1.
Any critics/tips/help would be apreciated, since it's my first big rendering project, and i just started using textures and ligthing....

The actual building

Hall, with a marble? (marmol) wall

exterior views

monkeyboy · December 17th, 2003

is this a UFB? Unidentified flying building? watch out with those standard max skies, they tend to make a rendering immediatly bad... better use a good old home made blue gradient background, they are more nutral.

ShaMan2 · December 18th, 2003

Actually, I rather like the Magritte effect of placing the building in the sky. Sometimes I get tired of looking at "realistic" images. That got my attention.

--Lisa

Richard McCarthy · December 19th, 2003

Hi Tricky

I think it's a fine first attempt, the modeling is very good, and accurate from what I can see.
But I think you need to improve on your lighting /material/ texture handling. The textures are not what I would expected, and UV assignment isn't quite right (from the interior screenshot) The material properties wasn't set right either, it's either too reflective, or not reflective enough. (Compare to the photo)

But it's still a good model, lots of potential to improve upon it

happy tuning

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Richard McCarthy Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Australia Posts: 757 Name: Richard McCarthy	Hi Tricky I think it's a fine first attempt, the modeling is very good, and accurate from what I can see. But I think you need to improve on your lighting /material/ texture handling. The textures are not what I would expected, and UV assignment isn't quite right (from the interior screenshot) The material properties wasn't set right either, it's either too reflective, or not reflective enough. (Compare to the photo) But it's still a good model, lots of potential to improve upon it happy tuning __________________ Don't mess with my hat !!

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December 17th, 2003	#1 (permalink)
tricky Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: chile Posts: 4 Name: david basulto	This was a college asigment (due yesterday) of planning/modeling/rendering an existing building and i choose this one, Manantiales Building, that was a finalist for the Mies Van der Rohe prize. It was modeled using Autocad 2004, since the plans were done there and i needed the precision i cant find in 3DS (or that i dont know how to use yet...). Renders were done in Max 5.1. Any critics/tips/help would be apreciated, since it's my first big rendering project, and i just started using textures and ligthing.... The actual building Hall, with a marble? (marmol) wall exterior views

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monkeyboy Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Belgium Posts: 45 Name: Mattheus Vermolen	is this a UFB? Unidentified flying building? watch out with those standard max skies, they tend to make a rendering immediatly bad... better use a good old home made blue gradient background, they are more nutral.

December 18th, 2003	#3 (permalink)
ShaMan2 Junior Member Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Birmingham AL Posts: 4 Name: Lisa Albea	Actually, I rather like the Magritte effect of placing the building in the sky. Sometimes I get tired of looking at "realistic" images. That got my attention. --Lisa

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