The Den!

First off, I would like to thank the lovely Neutrino ladies for offering me the pleasure to work with them, and for allowing me to post my progress on their new web page. I'm excited to get this ball rolling!

First of all, I have 3 lights set up with mental ray. This gave me a 2.5 hr render time on a 1024 X 786 frame, about an hour on a 480 x 640. Needless to say I will have to adjust some light settings to bring this down a LOT. I'm happy with my start, overall, but here are the things that are immediately apparent:

1.) dark wood needs better illumination, possibly lighter color
2.) the 'magic' carpets are slapped on for effect, but some texture mapping is needed
3.) chair could be brought up to scale, along with wee side table
4.) lighting emitting from the fireplace will warm up the lower half of the frame

Once the miscellanea are in place, this scene will really start to hum...