Arch Viz Study - The Farnsworth House (Updates with settings)

I would like to start a WIP on how to make photorealistic architectural visualizations using any available techniques imaginable. There are a couple of works I had seen that are very hard to distinguish from actual photos. Making these renders to look so believable has already become an art in itself.

I chose the Farnsworth house because there are a lot of very nice renders of it and photographs to compare with. The model of the house I am using was made by Peter Guthrie and it can be downloaded from his blog. My heartfelt thanks to him for sharing such a wonderful detailed model. He made a number of very realistic visualizations using the same model.

At the moment I'm using Sketchup, indigo renderer, GIMP and Motiva Real Camera. I maybe switching to other software packages if necessary.

Some initial renderings, I prepared yesterday:

(Reserved for final renders)

Some links to renderings and photos of the Fansworth house. These would be used as references.
http://www.pushpullbar.com/forums/showthread.php?9713-3D-Farnsworth-House
http://www.mentalimages.com/gallery/architecture.html
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pg/sets/72157622626579436/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/suttonhoo22/tags/mies/

good evening sir i like your images for the fansworth house...just like to know sir if the grasses and trees are also part of the 3d sketchup that you made with the house like there is a material to create those grasses and vegetation or are those done in photoshop...and is indigo renderer is a better software than vray for sketchup because now im using that software and right now i can't make a presentation as good as those of yours with the indigo render....thanks and good luck.....

matry nga din yung free model...
salamat po

@ archki_rain
Thanks Sir! Ang grass and trees sa scene are all 3d models. It may look impossible to do in sketchup because with all those 3d models it would definitely crash. But there is a method I'm using to scatter thousands or even millions of objects in a scene without crashing sketchup. It is called instancing. Information about this method can be found here: http://www.cgpinoy.org/environment-landscaping-f50/massive-environments-in-sketchup-t11267.htm

Right now I cannot say if Indigo is better than VRay. Both are capable of producing really good images. Since I used both software, the only difference between them is that the default settings in indigo are already set at high quality. So when I click the render icon, it will produce the same quality of renders seen here.

@ jarul
Maganda at high quality yung model. Sa tingin ko mas high quality siya kaysa sa GH house.

nice start bro..ganda pala ng indigo ngayn..hope to see more progress soon!!

wow....mukhang gamay mo na ang Indigo...first time ko nakita result sa Ronen GH challenge and ikaw yung second na best user keep it up bro.

ortzak wrote:nice start bro..ganda pala ng indigo ngayn..hope to see more progress soon!!

Thanks Sir!

Galaites07 wrote:wow....mukhang gamay mo na ang Indigo...first time ko nakita result sa Ronen GH challenge and ikaw yung second na best user keep it up bro.

Salamat Sir! Hindi pa naman masyado, I am still in the process of learning the pasikotsikot of this software.

This is promising sir
Looks real...
Can't wait the final renders bro...

@rangalua - Maraming salamat Sir!

Kanina nagpractice ako ng post production using Picassa photo editor. Nakikita ko kasi na parang medyo blurred or sinasadyang gawing blurred yung ibang renders ng mga masters. Tapos yung iba naman sobrang linaw. Di ko alam kung alin yung dapat na gawin kaya ginawa ko pareho para makita ang resulta.

nice update,,,niluluto ko pa yung version ko,,heehe

@ jarul - Thanks Sir! Si ME_nesperos_27 gagawa rin ng rendering nitong Fansworth house.

ang bangis. great contrast. parang totoo sir. ask ko lang kung ganun ba talaga ung stair? nakahang sya?