Sci-fi Room Challenge WIP-A Space Bar

[Mark Smith]

good looking furniture in a good looking room

[Todd Sanderson]

I’m suddenly in the mood for some blue milk. This is looking fantastic Spikey!

[jammingammon]

Looking really cool. The lights really bring it all together. I could definitely see some aliens hanging out in here. Nice work!

[spikeyxxx]

Thanks a lot @euv , @acapier and @jammingammon !

I feel more confident about the lighting now 😀

[Adrian Bellworthy]

Looking fantastic @spikeyxxx , its really coming together nicely with the lighting.

Will there be any patrons in your scene?

Perhaps this is a place frequented by Kryten. 😂

[spikeyxxx]

Thanks @adrian2301 

I probably won’t have time to add any ‘beings’ in this scene, unfortunately (need at least a day for rendering…).

So what humans or aliens frequent this bar is left up to your imaginations 😉

[spikeyxxx]

Made some light improvements. Also, the bar now has an actual bar (accidentally modeled it on the wrong side, but I decided to see how it looks when I simply rotate the whole bar and I like it even better this way, lucky accident 😅) and the stools have foot support (might need to adjust the height, but that is for the ‘final tweaks day’…). Filled the first few some bottles to get a better idea of how it will look and rendered with less Samples (only 64, rendered in just under 40 minutes!) to see if I can get away with that.

And this is the result:

Happy where this is going 😀

Tomorrow the final modeling (mostly bottles) and materials and friday is for the final tweaks and fixes and to start rendering (hopefully).

[Tom]

Very nice lighting design! 

[Vue Thao]

Wow, that’s all I can say with my jaw left there hanging pretty long. This is some futurama bar I like to go and drink.

[spikeyxxx]

Thanks @euv ! I would love to welcome you as our guest 🙂

[spikeyxxx]

Still some modeling left (but not a lot…).

Accomplished the main materials, but I will have to tweak the Shaders a lot.

It seems like I can’t use the Denoising, at least not with only 64 Samples (have to test it with the Compositor Denoiser Node though), it completely destroys the SSS….

Another test render:

[spikeyxxx]

Did the final modeling today…still have to place a few ‘pistols’, but I paused that, because I started  to make stupid mistakes due to lack of concentration (also known as ‘getting tired’):

Did another test render (100 Samples, 2160 * 3840 pixels, about 3 hours), with compositor denoising:

I cannot get enthusiastic about it..there is a lot of glass and it just becomes ‘dull’, ‘dead eyes-look’ (it can handle one single glass, but those rows of glasses…). And the SSS is also mostly gone, although not as ‘splodgey’ as before, but that is probably due to higher Sample count and better resolution…

I will make the last tweaks tomorrow and then start rendering with as high Sample count as I can afford. Will try Cycles-X for this, but I don’t expect to get much speed-up  from it, because I can’t use my GPU (too old) and my CPU only has 4 cores….

[Tom]

Have you considered using a renderfarm for the final high sample count renders? I’ve started doing that for my final renders (I have an old GPU too), and it saves so much time and means I don’t risk blender crashing half way through!

[spikeyxxx]

@tomb2005 I actually have considered that (even have some points left at Sheepit), but as long as my computer can still get the job done, I’ll stock to it. I have to experiment a lot to get the best settings, so it’s also a learning experience.

Just started rendering, hope I didn’t leave any ‘mistakes’, that only show when the render is (almost) finished…that happens quite often, to be honest…Hopefully I can get 3 images rendered, but that should be possible, there is still some time left.

Blender crashing during a render has not yet happened to me (maybe I shouldn’t have said that…). I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

[Vue Thao]

I know the feeling: cycle rendering may not come out as we expected. 

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