I am rendering some exterior scenes and the just look blah. I don’t have any materials on the surfaces but the overall scene looks washed out. I want that bright vibrant look!

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stck2mlon 30 August 2011 04:15 AM

… I want that bright vibrant look!

Assign interesting materials, find more impressive background, make the windows reflective, and you will get it.

ivan

composite in an AO pass....

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when you render daylight you should think like a photographer.
go home and come back later in the day when the light is warmer, or get up early in the morning
first thing change the time of day in “date, time and location”
uncheck “inherit from sky” and put something like
red/blue tint 0.3
saturation 0.5
in “non-physical tuning” change to something like
red/blue tint -0.25
saturation 0.2

you can also lower the horizon ad some blur
soften the shadows samples

then you have the environment control
change the exposure values and the values in the image control

and off cause ad some materials and a background image

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