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Viktor Fretyán
I am a 26-year-old architect from Budapest, Hungary.
I started using 3D many, many years ago when I was
in elementary school. I experimented with small
animations, effects and building primitive models.
Years later, while studying at university, I found it was
actually a good way of making money so I started to dig
deeper into arc-vis territory.
Material surfaces
Adding textures and materials
There are no
04 complex materials
in the scene. I used only one
concrete material, although it
appears as if there are more,
but those scratches were done
externally in Photoshop. It has
a VRayDirt map in the Diffuse
slot which has a Radius of 3
metres. The same map was
used for Reflection and Bump
in greyscale too.
Row House 3ds Max,
V-Ray, Photoshop (2009)
This is a small, personal
practice piece I made over
a weekend and it included
four renders of Tadao
Ando’s first realised project
in Azuma, Japan. I love the
raw concrete material and
it features everywhere on
these renders. I enjoyed
working on this project
especially because I did it
in only a few days.
The floor was
05 made in the same
way. It has a slightly higher
IOR setting to get more
reflections and the VRayDirt
is only set to 1.5 metres. The
same bitmap is used again
for all slots. I used colour
correction to adjust the map.
In waiting... 3ds Max, V-
Ray, Photoshop (2009)
This is one of my favourite
renders. It is the main aula
[atrium] of the Exchange
Palace of Budapest. I was
working on that project for
quite some time. The
modelling part was insane
as you can see on the render.
This altered version of the
original render tried to
capture the feeling of a child
dragged through a museum.
KUMU Art Museum of
Estonia 3ds Max, V-Ray,
Photoshop, After Effects
(2010)
This is the project I am
currently working on. I
started months ago, but I
just can’t seem to finish it
because the building has so
many great views. This will
be my most grandiose work
once it’s finished. I would
like to render daylight and
night shots as well as
interiors and exteriors with
different seasons.
A typical dirt map is set like
06 this. I added the dirt map to every
material’s Diffuse slot. I used to render a
separate ambient occlusion layer, but that
meant every object had the same radius
of dirt; this way, I can control each one
individually. Obviously, a 6m-high plane
wall needs a completely different radius
to a 15cm-high vase on a shelf.
The curtain is
07 made from a
translucent material. It is set
in the simplest way it can be:
using Hard Wax mode. It is
similar to using a two-sided V-
Ray material. It isn’t as nice,
but much faster and, for these
purposes, it is perfect.
My final advice
08 regarding materials
is always use Fresnel
Reflections. If you do just a
little research into everyday
objects around you, you’ll
figure that nothing has a
constant reflection but
depends on the angle you
look at it. And I don’t only
mean water or glass, but even
plaster walls or fabric.
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