Yeah it has a dolls house or claymation set style to it, I like it.
The lighting through the blinds is nice.

A helpful tip for lighting, which I think you have done anyway, light the scene in plain white or clay then turn textures back on. If the lighting looks right with plain white then it is right. If it then looks wrong with textures then it is a texture issue.

Also if you find renders are lagging a bit turn glossiness of reflections all the way up so it is like a mirror. Rough reflections are one of the most render heavy things early on.

If it's no matter give Unreal a try, I got some nice results from it for an AR industrial viewer prototype thing I did last year. RTRTFTW

Ambient occlusion map always looks lovely on relatively simple geometry.

Good work Temps! I'm working up the video after your description of it tho

Hey temps nice kitchen my dude, my only observation is that it looks like you're going to have some junk around the scene like the kitchen is ransacked or just dilapidated or something since its post apocalyptic vibe check time.

If so turn the reflection down on the floor a little bit to sell the grime/trashedness aesthetic. Imho hmv, etc.

I love how warm the lighting is though and I think it will play really nicely against the rest of the scene when it's all done.

True but whatever you're currently using in the scene has a very dreamy/syrupy golden hue on it and it looks like a nice idyllic morning sunlight coming through the blinds.

That is really nice man. Better than anything I did in the timeframe you have adopted 3D.

What render engine are you using? Are you allowed to do post processing (photoshopping) on stuff?
Obviously if this is for real time I can see why they may not allow it.

Your lighting really is nice. Lighting is mostly talent so you are onto a winner there.

Quick point. Your bump map seems a little extreme on the floor tiles. With bump maps I would always take it into photoshop and adjust the levels so there are no pure blacks or whites.

Although my prefence now is to change them to normal maps using a relatively cheap bit of software called CrazyBump.

Cheers! I’m super lucky in that my partner has already done all this, and because she booked our holiday the week before my deadline (by accident) she has helped em out by UV unwrapping everything, and generally just condensing all the stuff she thinks I need to know to get it finished on time.

I’m using Arnold, cos it comes free with Max, and Ev know her way around it. Textures are via Substance Painter which is a lot of fun, but I am generally just doing the most basic stuff. Definitely want to fool around with it more though as it seems really fun.

As far as I am aware we can’t post process, i’ll need to check the hand in docs. Essentially we have to take 6 shots at the highest possible quality, and also and submit our project files, so it isn’t too taxing.

I don't want to tell you what to do but I think you have a good eye for texturing and lighting. The fact you enjoy Substance Painter is a big plus.

Looking good Temps. +1 on the lower floor bump map severity. Someone get some tarnoff on that hotplate.

Slower day than I would have liked today. To ease the load on Ev I tried to learn UV unwrapping and man, I am not good at it. Ev just walks over and fixes everything I do without hesitation. Still, I have everything textured now. Just need to finish laying out my scene and try some renders.

Has some mishaps with HDRI maps too, just not able to get them to play ball how I want.

An hour is nothing mate. Trust me. Those dailys I am doing take an hour or two to render, depending on the scene. The brain one took 2 hours and I would have happily let it go longer.

Looks good. Loving the grimey tiles. Lots of chaos, chaos is good because it shows work, as I am sure you have learnt 3d is the opposite to reality, making stuff dirt and messy takes effort.

The grime on your windows will definitely be adding to your render times.

I think there is a clash somewhere in the project in that if you were working in realtime (games) they wouldnt expect active lighting through a dirty window. While if you were working in movies (high end) you wouldnt be worried about render times as much, especially if someone asked you to make dirty windows.

Scene looks good though, you should be well happy with that.

aha also also that reminds me, I was dicking about in Magica Voxel with the new interface and features and I also did a kitchen, it must be catching.  Note my cat on the bench.  Obv Temps' is vastly better but I got all excited about voxel play again.  I want to give the new cloud renderer a go and I tried the noise reduction feature but for some reason it wouldn't work.  Annoying cos the demos look good and as you can see it's super noisy.  ANYWAY

Another 1080p Test Render. Still noisy even though sampling improved! Probably too dark. Also bad Luke - leaving texture seams visible on bowls, and wtf is going on with that cooker hood? Edit: Wrong model with a texture applied, doh

Need to work out how to get rid of that border too.

First 1080p render. Took 5 hours! Yikes!

Tweaking some settings here and there, lowering the orange glow of the light and trying again whilst I am at work.

Looking good Tempy.

Yeah render times are a fuck and you can end up spending longer trying to get them down than the actual render would have taken.