#REALISTIC RAINDROP PHOTO FREE#

There is nothing to say about the render settings, as nothing is changed from the default Corona settings – goodbye to tweaking material/light/shadows samples! It’s almost there! Now time to add more details: With those props added, it was time for another test render:

#REALISTIC RAINDROP PHOTO FREE#

Some street props I modelled myself and others were modified models from various websites that offer free models: In this case, the interior is just a texture map on a CoronaLightMtl:Īdditional lighting was added inside the buildings to help the water reflections on the street. The Costa store was modeled from a reference, as seen below: I started off with the 2 foreground buildings. Now it was time to start populate the scene. Here is the first test render from this stage, where I also added some trees to get a feel of the atmosphere: Here’s a look at the texture map for the road: There’s not much modeling on the road other than moving some vertices down to create the pools:Īll the details are in the texture, which was 20000 x 6000 to get the fine details:

The curb was done in the same way and rail-cloned along the road: The foreground materials also have displacement for the fine details: All the textures needed to be saturated and darkened – the key here is to add reflection to everything with an appropriate glossiness. A plane with water material was added on top to fill the dips with water:Ĭreating the materials took up the largest part of the time. I first found a texture and extruded a plane with segments that matched the tiles, then added noise to give some slight irregularity to the tiles. Since we want to have pools of water, the pavement needed to be irregular. The main source of light is just one ‘overcast sun’ HDRI map.Īs I usually do, I started with the foreground, which is the pavement and the road. Without any plan, I quickly blocked out a narrow street with buildings on both sides and set up a camera and the lighting. Googling “after the rain street” gives lots of beautiful photos, as well as other 3D renders. I started collecting photos of European streets. With the inspiration in place, the next step was to gather some references. After doing some simple scenes I was impressed by the workflow and quality in Corona, so I thought “Why not tackle a technically demanding scene?” That’s how these images made their way out of the “to-do” folder. Recently, I decided to test drive Corona Renderer. I thought it would be nice to make a work with a similar ambiance one day, so I put their images into my “to-do” folder where I collect references for later use. The “after rain” concept is nothing new – I had seen images from Zhang Naigang and Marek Denko on the CGSgsociety forums years ago. I have to say that I’m glad and honored to do that, so let’s begin! I am a CG artist from India, and lead artist at a British construction consultancy company in Qatar.Īfter my post “Morning after the rain” on the Corona forum, I received a kind proposal from the Corona team to write a ‘making of’ about the scene, to share knowledge with our community. Read how Shabeer created ‘Morning After the Rain’ Back in December 2016, Shabeer posted his “Morning After the Rain” image in the Corona forums, which proved very popular in the community! We spoke with him to learn what went into making these photo-real images.

Realistic raindrop photo