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First step is setting base colours of the materials, and boxes representing people to get better understanding of outcoming result. I realy didn’t like how the building looks with straight verticals so i decided to set camera near ground, with target pointing in the sky. Going to do day rendering because i think it the best variant of representing school.
work process
1 framing- to find the suitable angle for my render.
2 modeling – to breakdown the model and surrounding objects
3 texturing –
4 lighting – not yet decided if day or dusk scene
5 rendering
6 PS
After some hours spent looking at the bulding and at the building site i decided to work on the model and on lightning to define the mood of the work. My point of view is that i’ve a great building in a nice historical context and this is why i wanted to work as possible as i can on a realistic image according to the real materials.
As i said to define the mood i worked on lightning, in this case a combo of vray sun and a low sun hdri, i decided to use this combo because i wanted to underline the primary material, the corten facade, that have a significant role in this project because i think that it has to dialogue with the surrounding buildings.
I am exploring a new platform for this process. With the healthy base model to begin with, there is a freedom to try new technique.
Let’s start with the first shader: corten facade.
Based on the reference photos I tried to create a procedural corona material for the main building but with a less “grey dirty” effect than the existing one.
Well, even though i really like the corten cladding, it feels quite visually heavy. So i though to take advantage of the volumes/ forms that we have for the building.
The building has two distinctive forms and i thought i could explore with the top form and try and come up with an interesting contrast.
So here i got to play around with just plain colors and try to come up with a combination of contrast that felt desirable for me.
I felt that the yellow contrast works well for me because it’s closer to the red corten in the color graph and also brings an interesting warmth to the whole image.
