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Virtual visit of the Vaillant House

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:46:41 +0000

Pixelab rencently did for Luon some CG stills and wireframe animations of key rooms of a contemporary house for a Vaillant marketing campaign.

Virtual visit is here (French or Dutch)

Images rendered with V-Ray and in-between animations with V-Ray toon, enjoy !

Frosted Mirror

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:21:10 +0000

update / 04-nov-2009 added material details

After making a quick test for a frosted mirror material (sort of frosted glass in front of a mirror) I couldn’t resist making a nice studio render with heavy post production :)

Material of frosted mirror consist of a pure mirror behind (inside on [...]

Displacement and Gamma issues with V-Ray

admin — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:10:40 +0000

This might intrest thos who work in Linear color mapping with a gamma curve (like the so called Linear Workflow LWF with 2.2 gamma correction). I recently bumped into an annoying side effect of putting an input gamma for bitmap files other than 1.0 in Max : Diplacement maps gets corrected aswell…

But [...]

Sandsculpture image, sunny style

admin — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 13:40:45 +0000

This illustration was fun to make, great client, thanks to the trubosquid community for the (not so cheap :) models!

Final brochure here : http://blog.luon.com/dblog/articolo.asp?articolo=763

Raw final image :

OSB material

admin — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 14:16:35 +0000

Here is a simple OSB material I did for a recent project. Just one texture, I was lazy to do reflexion + bump and the result was already satisfying. Original texture is from cgtextures, was tweaked to be huge, square and tilable…

Enjoy ;)

Fog Bias parameter test in Vray Material

admin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 21:34:18 +0000

I did notice this new parameter since the 1.5 Service Pack 1, and decided to make some test. Actually, this parameter does exactly what I need… but it’s quite hard to explain and an image will be clearer than thousands of word :

Let’s say that it quickens the darkening of the [...]

Vincent Callebaut Lilypads

admin — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:58:17 +0000

New set of images added on pixelab main website. This project has ready been covered in a national newspaper and on multiple blogs but credits for the images are often missing. I’ll do a more complete article with some wires of this project but … I’ll have to find time for this ;)

Click [...]

Opacity map performance tweak in VRay

admin — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:45:01 +0000

I recently did some test to confirm that disabling the map filtering op an Opacity map in a VRay material improves performance. This is a well know trick that can save you some time if your scene contain a lot of these kind of maps. All following tests are done with the universal settings described [...]

Tutorial/Making of Vincent Van Duysen Tower in Beirut

admin — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 22:22:32 +0000

I had some request on how this tower image was done so here is a small making of this particular project. Even if VRay is not really required for this tutorial, it will be explained with some of this wonderful render engine functions.

Basically the skin [...]