Sofa Visualization

Client requested high quality images for whole line of sofas.

Each sofa needed multiple variations. In total 28(sofas) 15(colors) 6(angles) = 2520 images. Some sofas also required different variations to show how mechanism works.

Usually these renders would be a big and complicated task, but using Houdini Solaris I was able to build a system that was easy to manage and make any adjustments for any particular sofa/angle/color configuration.

I had to rebuild low quality CAD models into high resolution meshes by using different workflows(remeshing, retopology, VDB conversion and vellum simulation).

I build a system to automatically assemble scene and center camera around sofa with proper parameters for each camera angle.

With this setup I was able to output properly organized and named files.

I was able to optimize render times by rendering unique part of the image only once and combining all parts in compositing.

Here are sofas with the same color and angle:

Let's look at few angles for single sofa in full resolution:

Example of switching between different models, camera angles and sets:

I also rendered top view for each sofa, so that it can be used in dimensions image: