Earlier in the year we were commissioned to create a number of images displaying our client’s shaker cabinet doors in various colour finishes. We crafted a large kitchen-dining room, with a high level of detail which allowed us to create multiple camera angles. Given that a number of shots were to be created great care was taken to ensure accuracy with room props and styling.

The images were all created using 3DS Max and the final scenes rendered with Corona Renderer. As usual, finishing details and tweaks were made in post production with Photoshop for better accuracy to the product finish.

Our client wanted to make a statement with this interior by using a smooth slab-door kitchen in a vibrant blue. Our stylists contrasted this with gola brushed copper rails and accessories, a mirrored backsplash and used slice marble floors and marble worksurfaces for a luxurious but minimal result.

The brief here was to create a bold industrial interior with vast open spaces. By using on trend German kitchen designs in an interior with exposed brick, vaulted warehouse ceilings and dark metal frames our stylists and CG artists have created a magnificent industrial space.

We often get asked how we manage to get the lighting in our images looking so realistic. Each scene is lit in a traditional photographic way, no HDRIs or Sun/Sky systems. Bounce boards push indirect light into the scene and custom IES profiles replicate spot lights to imitate the sun and other internal lights.

We decided to use very clean and natural lighting in this set to create a focus area around the door set. We’ve used the window in the outer room to accentuate the elegance of the bevelled glass in the art deco french doors. As always our artists have created props and furnishings from scratch to style the room. Soft furnishings and botanical elements have been tweaked in post to add to the realism.

When working with our tiling clients we produce strong interiors packed full of detail to enhance the tiles in the best possible way. This beautiful bathroom set was created to be configured with a wide range of their tiles.

Internal doors are often overlooked as a feature of an interior, with many homes traditionally having white painted doors throughout. We wanted to flaunt alternatives to the norm by using an eye-catching pink finish for this door design. We set the natural lighting from one side to emphasise the raised and fielded mouldings and staged the door flat to the camera. The bedding was simulated with Marvelous Designer and botanical elements added in post production.

The challenge with our new door client was to make their products the centre of attention without the interior being too prominent. We used a flat on composition to display as much of the door as possible with the lighting and staging directing your focus in the right area.

A slick combination of natural light and under unit lighting have been used to add depth to these images. Great models and materials meant we didn’t need to do much retouching, although the lighting was quite complex in the end due to the dark colour scheme.

Great models and materials meant we didn’t need to do much retouching on these images, everything came together really well with a simple lighting setup. As ever we used our custom IES lighting profiles and reflector boards to illuminate the space.
A few bits of food and plant photography were then shot and composited on in photoshop.

We were commissioned with creating a kitchen space with an autumnal theme for one of our clients but didn’t want to fall into the trap of using too many obvious autumn references. Our designers have done a fantastic job of keeping this set warm and cozy with a minimal sprinkling of the archetypal autumn items. The kitchen remains light and spacious, even with the use of dark tiles, units and black crittall doors.
Using Marvelous Designer allowed us to create compelling, realistic looking soft fabrics and the room was styled using complimenting traditional furnishings, in line with current trends. We used Corona renderer to produce the final CG images with minimal retouching so this project is around 99.9% CGI.

Last years Christmas CG images went down so well that we created 2 sets this year. Both designed by our Senior Designer Tan, fully CG, no with no photography at all. We used photogrammetry techniques to create some really nice food models. Read more here http://www.pikcells.com/lab/photogrammetry-cg-food-tests/ Superb job on this project from Darren, Jordan, Rich Ip, Ben and Jon.