Soon to be interior...

[Jason Matthews]

Hey everyone. I will be starting my first interior image of a hotel lobby bar for a client iin a few days. They sent me a sketched plan and perspective and I spent all day retrieving models of the things that I will be adding to the scene (bottles, tables, chairs, lighting fixtures, etc). I meet with them tomorrow to discuss specifics.

 

How should I go about doing the job. I have only done a few interior renderings for my work, never for a client outside of work. Usiually I do my own designs and such. I use cad to model in and Viz4 to render (radiosity).

 

I will be using lights from the erco website. Here is the sketch. Any help would be awesome.

 

Thanks,

 

Jason

[kippu]

nice sketch

well i usually add the bare necessities , make it all white , then work on the lights till i am satisfied then add the materials and make adjustments to the lights and then finally add the props

good luck on your work

[Tony]

Same as Kippu. One step at a time. Save all the small props for last. The test renders will go much faster that way.

 

Tony

[Jason Matthews]

Hey Tony and Maria. Thanks for the advice. I will definitly save the props for last. I file link so that should not be a problem. I was also thinking about doin the materials per prop in different files and then xrefing them in. What do you think?

 

Jason

[trhoads]

What I do with a lot of my props and entourage, is create a seperate VIZ file for them, with unique names for their materials, and then merge them with my design. This frees up materail slots for my main piece. You have to keep the materials inyour entourage files named unique, so that they wont merge multiple materials within the design. Just one way of doing it.

[Jason Matthews]

Thanks for the tip Travis. That is a wonderful idea.