Making Of ' Harbour '
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by Aleksandar Jovanovic |
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The lighting was very simple: I used HDRI and one directional light, with Final Gathering turned on. The first idea was to create a completely diffused environment, with no direct light, but I realized that a bit of a light would give some dynamics to the image as a whole (Fig.14).
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I rendered out Beauty and Ambient Occlusion passes and compiled them in Photoshop with all necessary color corrections.
I rarely try to make a rendered image perfect; for me it’s much faster to do such things in post-production. I have much more freedom. Clouds, smoke, some dirt, as well as some water splashes were added in post-production. Small elements like the people on the docks were painted and I toyed with the idea of having a boat leaving the port, but then felt it would be overkill (Fig.15). |
Rendering an image of this size took me around 45 minutes. The final resolution was 1910 x 3000 and had around 4.5 million polygons. While this was excellent practice, one of the things I would definitely try in the future is to render it through Pixar’s Renderman. One of the reasons I want to try it out is its very quick displacement method. Mental ray is much slower, and one of the things I regret is that I wasn’t able to apply displacement on the building itself without sacrificing render time, so all the curved elements and irregularities were achieved manually.
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