Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-55090776

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-As the challenge says; “The image should be natural and realistic rather than over-stylized”.

-So I satarted to look out photos of the city of Stockholm, Sweden in a normal and natural ambient.

-I just loved the way the sun was there before the rain; Stockholm is a cold city and with some rainy days,
I just wanted to implant that story in my render.

-The first thing to do with the 3D model was modeling the specific details that wasn’t there,
like the lamps inside the building.

-Looking forward with the images. I put the sun in the same orientation.

-Making some test of illumination and just founding what I wanted to represent,
I started to place textures to the entire object that was on my scene.
I don’t wanted to make so a super realistic textures, just the important, and then in postproduction I would do the rest.

-Before I go on postproduction I like to make some drawings of where is going to be the people and
whats the story they are goingo to tell, and how it matches with the ambient.

-I just wanted to represent a normal day after rain, and then after a few hours the people enjoying the square now that the sun came out.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-16180394

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There’s no secret to how I did the ground, really. The herringbone pattern was done in geometry and then all the individual blocks were attached together into a single object. I used the modifier MaterialByElement to randomize each of the blocks’ IDs and used VRayMultiSubTex to vary the colors between them. I also added VRayDirt to the ground material to get some dirt in the cracks. Max’s procedural map “dent” was used in the bump slot to add some variation to the concrete. I feel that’s the appropriate amount of detail I needed since that part of the image would be a little out of focus due to the camera being focused on the building.

I also painted and added a map on a separate channel to simulate the wear of tires and cars. I created a brush in photoshop that would simulate the oil leakage of cars over time.

The ground near the arch school was also worked on. I ended up making it way more detailed than I needed given the camera angle and distance.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-10281381

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While searching for an idea and inspiration for the challenge I’ve came up to a decision, that cloudy reportage shot is what I miss in my regular archviz practice. In general, all the process went vice versa: instead of starting with light and composition, the first thing I’ve done, was search of an image with people, that could determine my further camera angle, light and mood. Next step was to pick up correct light, camera perspective, distortion values and gather all this into an interesting artistic reportage shot.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-16180394

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Like I mentioned in my original concept post, my goal was to show the new architecture school building in its context, so it would be necessary to show some of the other existing KTH buildings too. I chose the camera position to be in a place where, even thought most of the image is not showing the main building, everything in the composition is pointing to it, forcing the viewer’s eyes and attention always to fall where it should be.

In the beginning I was thinking about placing the camera far away and using a lens like 85mm (on a full-frame camera) in order to compress the space between the buildings so the arch school building would look bigger in relation to the other buildings, even being farther back. As I was working on it though, I felt that at 85mm the image was looking flat and lacking dimension. Plus, a narrow FOV like 85mm is not very common in architectural photography, so a view this narrow wouldn’t help make the image look photoreal. At 50mm the vanishing/perspective lines started getting a little too extreme for me, so I decided to settle on 60mm.

Tomorrow Challenge 2018 entry by User-18744033

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Architecture as a shelter.

It’s winter time, and the storm is coming….. Architecture since day one has been source of shelter for humanity. It doesn’t matter how cold it us, always a good design contains and protect people from nature, specially in countries with hard winter like Sweden. The image reflects that issue using cold tones for exterior (blue and white), and warm tones for interior (red and orange), achieving an opposite situation, highlighting the building as a warm and comfortable space to use and live.