Interior Scenes with Camera Setup, Lighting Techniques, and Composition in Twinmotion

Welcome back to lesson five. All right, in this lesson we're going to focus on creating, you know,  the strong interior scenes by combining careful planning, camera work, lighting. So in the first lesson we're going to be looking at planning our interior layouts and setting up the camera views.

We'll learn how to define the purpose and mood of your scene, create and save camera views,  adjust the focal length, height, composition. And then in lesson two we'll look at environmental settings and global illumination settings for the interior, looking at specifically in Lumen. In lesson three we'll do more environmental settings, looking at the sky primarily on the exterior, how the natural light control and shadows play into effect.

And then we go into kind of later in the lessons where we will look at interior lighting. We'll look at all interior lighting options that are available within Twinmotion and then we'll actually put it into practice and bring in lights and really bring the scene to life. If you look at the scene right now it's, you know, very flat.

There's not a whole lot of shadow play or depth into it. We're really going to elevate that with many settings and options and whatnot. We created these three preliminary scenes so we're gonna keep these but then we may modify them or duplicate them or remove them as we move forward within this.

So without further ado let's jump in to this first portion. When it comes to your interior rendering the planning and camera setup is just as important as materials and lighting. So like a well-planned composition can make a huge difference between a render that feels flat and one that feels immersive and professional.

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So let's start with the scene planning. So before placing the camera let's define the purpose of the image. Is this going to be like for a marketing graphic which is meant to show off the space and really sell it? Or is it a design study focused on the layout, right? What's the function? What's the goal? We also want to kind of see like when we think about our export settings we want to know what the end goal is, right? Is this going to be something that we're going to be that we will be sending the client or something that's more for internal use? All those will change some of the settings that we do.

We can make camera adjustments and image adjustments by when by clicking on these image in the image button here under media and image and then click on our image one. We will see that we have these five basic image settings. Two of these options we will go through in this lesson.

The camera and the image. So for the first one let's look at the image setting button right here. So composition is extremely important.

You'll hear like some basic tips, right? We think about aspect ratio. A good aspect ratio is 16 9, right? So it's like 16 width by 9 height. That's kind of our general aspect ratio where we see it for monitors and movies and things like that.

If you want to do things more for social media viewing sometimes we want to flip it around into more of the portrait format where it's taller on the sides and shorter on like the width and top, right? So that means we'll have maybe 16 high by 9 wide. That's kind of a good scenario for when you're posting on social media things of that nature. So in so under image right here we can see that we have our output size where we have options for full hd, 4,000, 8,000, and custom.

To click custom now we have the position to modify our width and height. So let's say that we want to do you know a 16 × 9, right? We can type in 16 × 16 by 9 as our oops so actually the lowest it'll go on here is 32. Let's say we do you know 1600 × 900.

So that's the aspect ratio that's ideal for media, screens, presentations. It's a good perspective where it's not too high top and bottom but has a good width to show kind of this good feel of view. When we want to export these sizes we want to think about what setting that we want to do.

If I'm going to be rendering out a extremely large image that I know is going to be blown up on a poster board or something like that I might render this at like 6,000 8,000 pixels wide. If I'm just doing this more for my print media I might only do it for 3,000. If I'm doing a test render 1600.

Right so for the case of this project and this assignment let's render this at 3200 × 1600. All right so that's that 16 by or 1800 here that's our that's our 16 × 9 ratio format. That'll give us a good amount of detail in this export settings.

When we do one of these modifications we'll need to modify each of these because you can't copy the settings you can only copy the ambient settings and not like the specific camera or image settings across. So keep that in mind as we make these adjustments that we may need to duplicate this view once we make these camera and adjustments and then match these perspectives with it. Otherwise we would have to go into each one and do all the same settings for each one.

So I'm just going to do it in this one and then I will copy and duplicate it and then modify the camera view for each of those. So once we kind of have our aspect ratio set now we can talk kind of talk about our composition and laying out our view. If we click into the camera the first thing that we will see is exposure and white balance right here.

So there's a thing called auto exposure and then there's some adjustments within this. So this is where you're going to be adjusting your general lighting and exposure for your scene and you may be going back and forth between your exterior lighting your on your environmental lighting and then adjusting this and then maybe you bring down the exposure once you add more lights or you bring it up. So for this let's set our exposure to 1.4. It's typically where I kind of find myself in this range of a nice general lighting for an interior space and then the white balance this is this is where we're running into this.

If I drag my slider if you go all the way up to the right we get very warm versus very cool. You know our typical kind of sun day lighting is between the 5,000 and 6,500. If you go a little bit warmer it really depends on the kind of the look and the mood and feel of your scene.

I will set this at 6,500 that's kind of where I feel is a kind of a good sweet spot within here and then your tint can be zero. Local exposure this just gives you more specifics on the exposure whether your highlights and shadows you know if you want to you can kind of experiment with this stuff that this will bring down some of that kind of contrast and brightness within it and shadow will soften and remove some of those shadows. We kind of want to stick kind of in that in that 75-88 standard range and we can always adjust that as we do more in our kind of our scene environmental settings.

All right so then let me close down this exposure. All right I'll see you in the next video.