Corona Workshop: 3D Rendering Course for Interior Designers

Design kitchens for efficiency and practicality by employing the work triangle—sink, cooktop, and refrigerator—and explore layouts like linear, galley, l-shaped, u-shaped, and island configurations with ergonomic dimensions.

Learn modular kitchen design with cabinet modules in multiples of 15 cm, standard heights of 85–100 cm, and 60 cm depth, including the toe kick, cabinet box, and work surface.

Explore three kitchen design styles—modern, contemporary, and classic—and learn how handleless push-up cabinets, material choices, and harmony with the home guide professional cabinetry decisions.

Design a small kitchen in AutoCAD using modular cabinet layouts, from a front elevation to a drawer-based layout, placing stove, sink, and dishwasher with upper cabinets.

Place cabinets from plan view using 60 cm, 30 cm, and 15 cm fillers, allocate a 120 cm refrigerator, apply the work triangle, and test layouts for efficient L-shaped kitchen.

Clean and prepare an AutoCAD kitchen plan by removing clutter and outlining wall boundaries, then layout 60 cm cabinet modules and a work triangle for 3D Max export.

Draw AutoCAD kitchen plan and elevations with ground lines, toe kicks, cabinet heights, and window placements. Move to 3D Max to present and refine, then sync changes back to AutoCAD.

Import AutoCAD drawings into 3ds Max, set units to centimeters, extrude walls, and model kitchen cabinets with shells and edit poly, then place them in plan.

Discover practical approaches to adding cabinet doors in a kitchen model, from basic modeling to importing ready-made doors, adjusting shells, textures, and hardware in 3ds Max.

Import high-quality kitchen objects, edit dimensions for proper fit, and place them in plan and top views, using Corona versions to enhance realism and consistency.

Import and position the hood and dishwasher, align pivots, and apply edit poly with TurboSmooth to preserve proportions. Cut sink space with Quick Slice or Slice Plane, avoid booleans.

Place and adjust the dishwasher and washing machine in the viewport, align along the Y axis, and fill gaps with cabinets and a curtain for a continuous kitchen layout.

Organize layers, build ceiling and floor, place objects, and prepare hidden lighting and chandelier while refining camera angles, lighting, and materials for kitchen renderings.

Apply Corona Sun and Corona Sky to shape shadows and illumination, adjust intensity and position, and use a mid-gray material override with ground and reflection tweaks for realistic lighting.

Adjust the sky and sun to shape shadows, then add three auxiliary lights—yellow, blue, and white—to create color contrast, refine with render angle, intensities, and lightmix for dramatic interiors.

Set up general materials and lighting for daytime renders, considering cloudy conditions. Place Corona lights inside objects, adjust position and size, and convert all objects to Corona for accurate previews.

Experiment with skylight and IES point lights to see directional effects, adjusting intensity and color, and rotating sources for precise illumination. Enable targets to shape halos and test IES patterns.

Learn to create realistic ceramic floor tiles using a standard pbr workflow, including texture selection, tile sizing 80 by 80, uv mapping, and subtle displacement.

Create and apply a navy high-gloss cabinet material in Corona, adjust color codes and glossiness, and manage multi-sub-object materials with IDs across doors, metal handles, and surrounds.

Select a marble countertop texture, apply glossiness falloff with minimal bump and scattering, and update UV maps with bitmap fit, rotating textures 90 degrees for proper alignment with navy cabinets.

create wall, floor, and cabinet materials using shaders and pbr textures, adjust colors toward gray and navy, avoid displacement and bump, fine-tune uv maps, and test renders for polished interiors.

Place corona lights in sphere or disk mode to illuminate fixtures, adjust intensity and size, and exclude objects to prevent overexposure. Then switch to HDRI lighting with color correction.

Explore HDRI lighting exclusively, adjust exposure, brightness, contrast, saturation, and gamma, rotate the HDRI to simulate sun positions, and balance sun and auxiliary lights for realistic shadows.

Apply two practical materials—wood and marble sheet—for floors and cabinets, ensuring correct UVW mapping, rotation, and vertical wood grain per client requirements to achieve a realistic interior render.

Create and apply customized wood materials for countertops and cabinetry, organize textures, map UVW coordinates, and adjust color with Corona color correction to refine realism before post-production.

Configure Corona final render: set size, aspect, time limit, noise, pass limit; enable reflect, refract, beauty, lightmix, shadow, setup lightmix, and apply LUT with highlight compression in tone mapping.