ACACIA CHAIR
Texturing, Rendering and Animation by NEUTRON HER
2020
Notes: rendered in Keyshot @ 40 samples/frame at 30fps
AN EVENING RENDER EXERCISE
I'd always wanted to render wooden objects, so I scheduled some time to setup a few renders, using a 3D CAD model from Poliigon to help expedite things. I was quite surprised at how realistic it turned out, with a few hours of tweaking the wood material. Below, I show how simple the general lighting and material setup was in order the achieve this look. Hopefully it can be helpful to some.
ENVIRONMENT SETUP
1. I added a round backdrop and scaled to an appropriate size
2. Next, I imported the 3d model and placed it in the center
3. I added a disc, scaled it to size and positioned it above the 3d model. It was then configured as an area light.
4. I then set environment brightness to 0 and background to black.
In the geometry view, I arrived at the setup illustrated below.
ADD THE WOOD TEXTURE
1. I found an acacia wood material finish and texture on the Keyshot Cloud library. Note that any high resolution wood image would have done well.
2. I then used the wood texture to quickly check the UV mapping of the 3d model by separating the 3d model into its respective parts, and applying the texture. I found that the stock 3d part from Poliigon was mapped fairly well, so I didn't have to use Keyshot's UV mapping tool for further refinement.
3. Lastly, I applied the texture to the rest of the 3d model.
FINE TUNING
Some things I tuned were,
1. The disc area light intensity and color (I just kept it white, at 0.5 watts)
2. The scale/size and angle of the wood texture image (I had to reduce the size down significantly until it looked like real wood)
3. The scale/size of the granite roughness texture (I had to reduce its size down slightly, and reposition it until I was happy)
4. The bump height (mine was - 0.5 mm)
Below are some of my renders (each @ 100 samples)
Thanks for viewing, and hope this was helpful!
3D Model from POLIIGON (https://www.poliigon.com/model/chair-makil-replica-001)
