Hakuei Residence

Hakuei Residence in Osaka was designed by Akira Sakamoto in 1996. I don't know why but I love modern japanese architecture and always admire their minimalist compositions. For this reasons, I decided to recreate it and this one is an exactly "a tribute to Akira Sakamoto".

Scene was made using 3dsmax with a photo reference. (Link: http://www.akirasakamoto.com) Modeling of the scene took half an hour but lighting and material editing took a whole day :) Trying to create burning sunlight with reflective caustics coming from the top left and blue environment from the bottom right side was a great challenge with Vray. Rendering took approximately 5 hours at 1600 x 1100px but final output didn't satisfy me too much so I rendered an occlusion pass with VrayDirt and also "reflection" and "raw lighting" passes helped me a lot in post stages. At last post production was completed using by After Effects.

M. Cihan Poçan