Chaos Corona Online Course | Exterior Rendering Guide
The "Best Chaos Corona course" you've been searching for is right here. Get hands-on experience in achieving impeccable texturing, immersive lighting, precise volumetrics, and innovative decals. Our structured approach ensures that you grasp the nitty-gritty of final render settings, thereby guaranteeing optimum photorealism every single time.
- 3+ hours of premium content
- 8 step-by-step video lessons
- Future updates included
About this course
Our structured approach ensures that you grasp the nitty-gritty of final render settings, thereby guaranteeing optimum photorealism every single time. This isn't just about learning—it's about mastering the combined workflows between different modeling software and Chaos Corona for professional-grade exterior visualizations.
This comprehensive Chaos Corona course transforms your approach to exterior architectural visualization, teaching you to create stunning photorealistic environments that rival professional landscape architecture presentations. Through hands-on practice with advanced terrain modeling and environmental design techniques, you'll master the complete workflow from initial landscape creation through to final cinematic output.
The course emphasizes practical application of Corona's advanced rendering capabilities, including sophisticated lighting systems, volumetric effects, and atmospheric conditions. You'll learn to leverage Corona's streamlined interface and powerful Chaos Scatter tools to populate vast landscapes with realistic vegetation, creating convincing natural environments that enhance architectural presentations.
Advanced techniques covered include HDRI environment integration, complex material creation for natural surfaces, and professional post-production workflows. The curriculum focuses on efficiency and quality, teaching you to balance render times with photorealistic results while maintaining flexibility for client revisions.
By completion, you'll possess the skills to produce professional-grade exterior visualizations that meet the demanding standards of contemporary architectural practice. These techniques transfer directly to competition submissions, client presentations, and marketing materials that distinguish your work in the competitive visualization market.
What will you learn?
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This course will turn you into:
An exterior visualization expert
Create compelling exterior architectural renderings that showcase buildings in realistic environmental contexts with proper lighting, weather, and atmospheric conditions.
A landscape integration specialist
Master the art of integrating architecture with natural and urban landscapes, using Corona's scatter tools and environmental assets to create believable contexts.
A daylight rendering master
Understand natural lighting principles and Corona's sky system to create convincing exterior renderings across different times of day and weather conditions.
Syllabus
In the first lesson, we introduce you to the course, the precedent we're going to replicate and a quick overview of the SketchUp model we're going to use as our subject. A nice easy way into the lesson series to get you ready!
We then dive into 3D Studio Max to create our landscape, in minutes! You'll learn three methods; the first utilising the sculpting brushes, which can be used for completely bespoke solutions, the second is to bring in your own landscape maps using white to black tones and the final is the one we use for the rest of the series.
Using the correct settings to export and import your building is crucial to ensure a smooth transition from whatever modelling software you use. Here, we bring the building model in from SketchUp and we apply some simple, in-built textures to get us underway.
An exciting point in the course as we take our first renders. You'll learn to place cameras in two ways, one by dropping in a camera from the toolbar and the other is to create a camera from the viewport position. You'll master the relevant settings within Corona cameras and then we move into dropping in a HDRI.
Strangely, one key to successful exteriors is a convincing interior, so we use Chaos Cosmos to populate the interior of the building to give a realistic result when looking through the large glazed opening of the side elevation. You'll then learn how to create high-end bespoke textures and we finalise the water texture for a more realistic, varied result.
Probably the most exciting lesson within the course, as we populate our massive landscape full of trees, grass, rocks and more! The in-built library within Chaos Cosmos is all you need to create mega realistic landscapes. You'll learn to make the most of the settings list within 3DS Max and also utilise the spline include/exclude to accurately avoid the water.
Before we finalise render settings, we make some final tweaks to the colour grading of the shots within the frame buffer and enhance the overall mood of the scene by introducing Corona Volumetrics to the mix and a few other tweaks before we round the course off.
Chaos Corona boasts fewer settings than Vray, but there's still some critical moves to make the most of your visuals, we cover all in the final lesson. We then jump into Adobe Photoshop to make the shots look more crisp and cinematic before saving them off, ready for distribution.
Meet your instructor
Adam Morgan
Architectural Director
ThreeForm Architects
Hi, I'm Adam. I am the founder and director of ThreeForm Architects, a team of architects and artists in Liverpool, UK. The office is experienced in a wide range of building types and procurement routes, successfully winning projects with contract values of up to £20 million. We work for a broad spectrum of public and private sector clients across the country.
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