Pearls on a regency side table.

Another quick render.  I'm pleased with the way the wood came out, it has a really nice glow about it.

The pearls took a bit of work.  I had to use a cauchy setting and mix that with a glossy material.

I might try a close-up of the pearls at some point.

A little detail from the bedroom scene

I thought I'd create a little scene that focused on the glass cake stand as I know how wonderfully Luxrender renders glass.

Unfortunately the necklace clasp lost it's silver material so it's imperfect but worth showing.  I might try it again with a slightly less contrasty  marble so the caustics show up better.

Bedroom lux source files

I've uploaded the lux source files to my googledrive.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJ0bBMVUUj7TEo2MXNhbzdlUUk/edit?usp=sharing

They are to be included in the Luxrender show-off pack.

Bedroom Progress

I've got somewhere to put my cups and saucers now.  There's still along way to go in terms of furniture but I'm hoping it'll speed up a bit once the rococo table is finished, building it was quite a challenge and UVing it is no small task.

I'm also trying some soft-body modelling which is fun.  Still not completely sure  which material to use for the fabric.

Some details of the breakfast room image.

So I've had a request from Amdcusa from the luxrender forum for more details of how I made the breakfast room images.

This is one of the most finished breakfast room images.

Here's the raw render.

Wireframe.

Solid viewport.

 I'm using 2 lights in this scene.

I did start by using the sun type of light but found I had better control with an area type.  This gives you nice shadows that the hemi with environment map lacks.  The hemi uses a hdmi image I downloaded from http://www.ronenbekerman.com/freebies/

The Ronen Bekerman site is a real treasure trove of useful stuff from textures to workflows.  I would personally recommend this article in the workflows section; http://www.ronenbekerman.com/photographic-approach-in-architectural-visualisation/ I found it very useful indeed.

If you want to know more about any of the materials used in this scene leave a request in the comments section below and I'll post a breakdown.

Cups!!!

Another year is upon us.  I'm starting another room of the house, the bedroom.  I'm going for a little bit of a style change with this one.  Here's a render of some of the clutter for the room.