5. Concrete Cliff

30th December posted by Marvin

In this tutorial we talk through the steps needed to change a lifeless basic 3D render into a lively interesting final image. This is extremely useful for tight deadlines, or when there just isn´t enough time to model everything in 3D. 3D visualisation can be just as powerful when the majority of the work is done in post!

The project files are available exclusively to our facebook fans!
Project Files.

Check it out and let us know what you think!

27 reactions to “5. Concrete Cliff”

pep on December 30, 2011 at 9:31 pm said:

Thanks, rally useful material!! I “liked” in FB but can`t see the project files anywhere…

Best regards,

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- Marvin on December 30, 2011 at 9:39 pm said:
  
  Hey pep, glad you liked it! You should be able to see it when you go to our actual facebook page. It’s located under the section on the left called “freebies” . Here’s a direct link to the section.
  
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  - pep on December 31, 2011 at 1:23 am said:
    
    Got it, thank you very much!!
    
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    - Marvin on December 31, 2011 at 4:49 pm said:
      
      No problem, thanks for the support on facebook Happy new year!
      
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Sedat Bayrak on January 7, 2012 at 4:01 pm said:

This one is the best (and the most useful) architectural post production tutorial i’ve ever seen. Thanks.

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Lyle on January 9, 2012 at 6:47 pm said:

Great tutorial, and the other one on Ronan’s site is amazing as well. One question I have is in regards to the images you find online and use. Are these your stock images or do you find them on royalty free sites or are these found wherever? As they and your reference images seem to be taken from wherever online, aren’t you concerned about copyright infringement? You definitely do a lot of photoshop work on them, but still….

Thanks.

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- Marvin on January 9, 2012 at 11:43 pm said:
  
  Hey Lyle,
  
  A very good question that a lot of visualisation studios run into. We do have a large library of images we use taken from personal reference, but some just can’t be found. Then we try and find an image on google and change it a lot. It’s not great practise to do this, so if you can use it from a royalty free source or one of your own (even better!) then that’s of course what you should do. But we editted the images here majorly, not expecting any problems there. But golden rule, always take your camera with you! Glad you enjoyed the tutorials.
  
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Eugene on January 9, 2012 at 7:46 pm said:

Great tutorial. And it is very usefull as well as others.
But there is one thing. I understand that it is not your problem but I speak english not so good and your speach is very quckly. Therefore I almost not understand you ((( Just watching the vidio))

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- Marvin on January 9, 2012 at 11:44 pm said:
  
  We’ll try to keep that in mind before we do the next tutorial Eugene, thanks for your kind words
  
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- Mario on January 10, 2012 at 8:58 am said:
  
  I agree with Eugene…I’m Italian and sometimes the speech is not so clear to me…However great tutorial!
  
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Muktinsh on January 11, 2012 at 9:44 am said:

Thank you so much. For me this is pure gold.

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edub on January 11, 2012 at 9:22 pm said:

I’ve been enjoying watching these p-shop post production tutorials, and I’m really impressed by your workflow an organization. I noticed that you always have a normals pass in the masks, but you don’t seem to use it for anything – can you elaborate on the usefulness of this, if any?

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- Marvin on January 12, 2012 at 10:39 pm said:
  
  The normals mask is very handy to select lighting groups. Normals give the direction of where the lightings coming from, so you could potentially select one color in the normal mask, use it to brighten up your scene and you will have changed the lighting hitting the object from that particular side. Hope that makes sense
  
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  - edub on January 18, 2012 at 2:18 am said:
    
    yes, thanks – that makes sense. It was what I thought it would be useful for, but I was wondering if you used it at all, since I never saw it being mentioned in your video (but I noticed you had it in the psd file).
    
    Looking forward to more tutorials.
    
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m on January 11, 2012 at 9:26 pm said:

hi great and very useful tutorials especially for architects. have i got it wrong – are you going to release tutorials on a weekly basis? cause if this is true then this is going to be a very hot spot!
thanks for all you’ve shared so far!
m’

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- Marvin on January 12, 2012 at 10:37 pm said:
  
  We’ll do our best to release as often as we can, however this is all to give our two cents to the community – the majority of our time is filled with work. However like I said as often as we can
  
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oren on January 13, 2012 at 12:34 am said:

wow wow!! you are the hero of post production!!

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m on January 14, 2012 at 12:08 pm said:

hi,

can you make a tutorial based on the “landscape” scene?
http://www.pixelflakes.com/portfolio_category/3d/
first picture on the second row.

thanks!

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- Marvin on January 20, 2012 at 9:51 pm said:
  
  We’ll keep the suggestion in mind! Have a few things in the mix at the moment
  
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Omar on January 16, 2012 at 7:08 pm said:

Absolutely fantastic!

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nick on January 16, 2012 at 11:21 pm said:

Really useful tutorial, one of the best I have come across, thank you!!

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juan david on January 27, 2012 at 2:04 am said:

you guys are AWESOME!!!

thanks for sharing your knowledge

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oncire on February 29, 2012 at 3:57 am said:

nice tutorial… you have a very nice technique in post production.. from a simple 3d model, you make it dramatic.. how i wish i can be at your level

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steve.h on March 1, 2012 at 1:44 am said:

hi Marvin, really great work and very inspirational!!!

i much prefer Photoshop architectural visualization as it can become more personal and you can apply your own style to the visual… instead of the alternative spending hours trying to render in max and just hitting render and hoping what u want comes out!!! do u generally agree??

and i was a little lost on some of the use of masking and the organization!! lol will you be making a more in depth video at one point?? showing most of the stages in real time.. i think this would be really beneficial,,, then that could be used as a reference for the rest of the tutorials..lol
i know it would be a lot of effort…

anyway thanks for your generosity and good luck with your future work

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- Matt on March 23, 2012 at 5:29 pm said:
  
  Hey Steve,
  
  Yes we definatly agree, great suggestion also, we are actually in the process of creating ‘Visualisation 101′, a set of tutorials which will be aimed at less advanced level. Covering things such as masking, basic lighting and render passes in 3D, as well as compositing processes which all visualisers should know. ‘Like’ us on fb and we’ll post up as soon as the first one drops.
  
  Thanks!
  Matt
  
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Jakub Ulak on March 24, 2012 at 6:43 pm said:

phenomenal work! i’m an architect practicing in Canada. i’m wondering if you have architectural training. aside from the incredible images the buildings are fantastic.

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Jochen B. on May 4, 2012 at 8:39 am said:

I really love the work you guys create! The fact you provide these tutorials make it even more fascinating, because now folks like myself can get insight in this workflow of creating 3D-images. The image I linked below is inspired on this particular tutorial. It’s my first image ever done like this, so I really ‘dissected’ the .psd-file that’s downloadable on FB! Thank you so much guys, and keep it up!! Cheerz!

Image (copy/paste): http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/860/finishedv.jpg/

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