Real-Time Interior Rendering Tutorial with Twinmotion

The Making Of “Kitchen” by Anthony Gutierrez

Lighting plays a key role in the realism of an interior rendering. In this ‘Making Of’ tutorial, interior designer Anthony Gutierrez reveals his secrets in creating photo-realistic lighting for an interior rendering in Twinmotion. The project “Kitchen” is featured in one of the latest Twinmotion Community Highlights.

Twinmotion architectural rendering by Anthony G-Torres

Anthony Gutierrez

Twinmotion is a fantastic real-time rendering program. You can work on your idea in ARCHICAD while keep visualizing in real-time your 3D model in Twinmotion…Comparing to a traditional ray tracing software, Twinmotion contributes a lot in model optimization. It is a veritable time saver.

Anthony Gutierrez

Project Specs

Project name: Kitchen rendering

Author’s name: Anthony Gutierrez (3D rendering), 3D model by BA 3D Studio – Bianca Atalla

Software used: Twinmotion 2019

Rendering time: 27 seconds in 4K

PC configuration: Intel Core i7 6700HQ, 12GB Ram, Nvidia Geforce GTX 960m

Introduction

My name is Anthony Gutierrez. I’m a bachelor student in interior design at Continental Institute.

Twinmotion is a fantastic, real-time rendering program that’s extremely easy to learn. Thanks to the ARCHICAD to Twinmotion add-in, the exchange back-and-forth between ARCHICAD and Twinmotion is easy. You can work on your idea in ARCHICAD while visualizing your 3D model in real-time in Twinmotion, make modifications, and visualize the result instantly.

Compared to a traditional ray tracing software, Twinmotion contributes a lot in model optimization. It is a veritable time-saver.

Lighting

I’m happy to share my rendering process in Twinmotion for creating this kitchen rendering. This tutorial focuses on lighting settings.

In general, I analyze how natural light works in reality and try to simulate the same lighting in Twinmotion. By raising the Sun power, Ambient, and GI level, Twinmotion intensifies the light bounces and lightens the entire scene.

To create a realistic shadow, I often use the Shadow decals provided in the Twinmotion library. Adding IES lights also helps to better project the shadows. By adjusting the attenuation of the decals, it’s possible to simulate the dissipation of the light in an ambient.

Finally, my trick to simulate the saturation of natural light is to place a primitive plane in front of the window with a neon material. Discover its effect in the ‘Making Of’ video below.

Clients are always fascinated by a live presentation of their project created with Twinmotion. They are even more impressed when immersed in a real-time VR experience. Twinmotion implementing Unreal Engine technology is definitely a great choice. I believe that Twinmotion will bring us many more surprises in the future!