Modeling, Lighting and post production tutorial for interior Visualizations (3ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop).

Modeling and post production tutorial by ADC Visualizations (3ds Max, V-Ray, Photoshop).

Hi, folks!

My name is Andrea, I am the owner of ADC Visualizations, and i'm gonna share with you the making of "Villa Bonafe - Living room" interior design concept. So let's start!

CONCEPT

This living room is a part of an interior design concept for a house located in Cortina D'Ampezzo (well known in Italy as nice location for winter holidays). The location has a nice mountain view outside so the main goal of the living room was to make this panorama the star of the house: cold outside but very warm and comfortable when you are inside the house.

So that was the main idea: a large open space for living/dining room, with a big window in the front to enjoy the wide terrace and nice panorama. So i decided for a double height room, wooden ceiling and floor. I put a modern fireplace in the center of the room. I'm not gonna go further on design choices because it's not the goal of this tutorial.

So, the first thing I did was looking for good references for inspirations. That's what I found

Vray Exterior Lighting Tutorial

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Well this is a exterior lighting tutorial showing how to set up the vray sun with the vray physical camera, and you will see some material setup for future reference.

Exterior lighting is pretty easy, but what makes an exterior looks good is the environment that you put in the scene, i normally do not create exterior scenes because it is not easy make great looking trees that you can share, but i tried with this one.

Vray HDRI Lighting for Realistic Rendering with 3ds Max

Well i have some tutorial about how to get realistic rendering using HDRI, but in this case this will be the only lighting source, this is the more simple way to lighting a scene without lighting complication but getting a really great realistic feeling in your scene, i have to say that i love to render with HDRI and for that reason i want to share my workflow when using just HDRI lighting.

Realistic Artificial/Night Lighting with Vray & Photometric Lights in 3ds Max 2012

Rendering realistic images using artificial lighting can be a tricky process, this require a good base of references and a little of creativity, in personal terms i prefer to use high contrast environment when using artificial lighting because it makes the space to look vibrant and emotional.

For get this high contrast environment you have to use a small portion of diffuse light and a high amount of focused lighting, if you see in my kitchen i have some diffuse lighting around the kitchen but i have focused light in the principal spots of the room, for example the dining table, the paintings in the walls, etc.

With this kind of focused lighting, your room will look more lovely and warming, well i have told you some principles about high contrast environment and how to create this kind of feeling, now let me show technical aspect of my scene.

Vray Tutorial – Lighting & Setting up a Realistic Render with Vray and 3ds max

In this tutorial you will learn how to lighting and setting up a realistic render with vray 2.0 and 3ds max 2011, also how to use ies lights, setting lighting with vray sun and vray sky and using vray physical camera, and see how you can set up your render.

This is the final render of this tutorial….