Summary

Let's summarize the important elements of photorealistic rendering that we have covered during the course of our project.

First of all, we familiarized ourselves with the basic workflow in V-Ray by diving into a Quick Start tutorial that introduced us to camera composition, lighting, texturing, and then rendering an interior scene. We then set about using the provided scene files to create lighting rigs for daytime and nighttime interior shots as well as making good use of V-Ray's procedural day lighting system for an exterior set of shots.

We have spent quite a bit of time familiarizing ourselves with the texturing system in V-Ray, learning how to use a variety of materials, maps, and layers to produce realistic surface properties for our geometry.

Before moving on to producing our final output, we tweaked a variety of quality control settings in V-Ray, including Global illumination and Image Sampling settings in order to produce the quality level that our project required. Finally...