Software Used:

Cinema 4D, V-Ray & Photoshop

Introduction:

The image was created to improve my overall rendering skills. Every time I have a moment to myself I like doing projects like this one to learn new techniques and watch how my work is improving. Since I've been working on exterior shots lately I really wanted to make an interior view for a change. After browsing a lot of architecture dedicated websites I came across the White Street Loft by WORKac. Clean design and unusual solutions immediately caught my eye; that was something I was looking for. I decided to render the living room area because of its interesting composition with the picture frames and column in the middle.

Modeling:

The basic model was done in Archicad, using reference photos from the WORKac website. It was a very raw model and it needed a lot of work in Cinema 4D (Fig.01) like chamfering edges and adding details such as window hinges, handles, lamps etc. (Fig.02).

Fig.01

Fig.02

The next step was modeling the furniture. It was all modeled by me using Cinema 4D basic tools.

Sofa:

To model one section of the column sofa I used the sweepNURBS tool (Fig.03a). Then the sofa section was multiplied around the column and, using the Brush tool, I gave it a more irregular shape (Fig.03b).

Fig.03a

Fig.03b

Chair:

The chair was also created using very basic modeling tools such as sweepNURBS and basic primitives. A more interesting part is the stripes on the chair. I made them from splines which were extruded with the extrudeNURBS tool. And finally I applied a MoGraph displace deformer with a simple noise in the shader slot (Fig.04).

Fig.04

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