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Goldroom tiles
The Goldroom was one of the most time-consuming sets to build, but also one that was most satisfying.
Most of the work is in determining the scale and dimensions of the Goldroom. Now that I know how big Stage 5 was, it’s clear to stay within these dimensions. Stage 5 was probably 30 × 25 meters.
The decision to make real tiles in different shades instead of a texture of the tiles makes the render time considerably longer, but has a great result.
There is a nice interview with Ron Punter in “Staircases to Nowhere – Making Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” in which he talks about painting all those thousands of tiles.
The Goldroom Sign
What I have been able to check so far, the board is in 3 different places and also seems to have 2 different kind of stands. This can be seen in the beautifully shaped and gilded curls.
The sign is of course in the lobby, both to the left and right of the door and of course in the hallway to the Goldroom. When Stuart and Bill give Jack and Wendy a tour and arrive at the entrance to the Goldroom, there is a completely different board stand than all the other board stands featured in the movie.
This render does not show a beautiful gilded curl yet.
The Bar
The bar is a project in itself and is far from finished.
The biggest challenge is determining the size. One way to find out are the bottles behind Loyd. The size of these bottles is known and so it can be calculated how wide and high a section is.
The two cash registers in the bar are striking. They are two old and classic cash registers during the ballroom scene and two contemporary cash registers during the Goldroom tour. On my list are the making of the cash registers and all the bottles and glasses.
Goldroom ball
Smoking policy has changed quite a bit since decades ago. Jack passes 14 smokers of the 25 people on the way to the bar, excluding the waiter at the desk and the people at the bar.
Hi Deltabuilder,
This is exactly what I have been looking for. We’re hosting a Shining parody event and I am hoping to display these images in our theater where we will be hosting a murder mystery party. Is this something you would be okay with? These are the best renders I’ve been able to find and far beyond my capabilities.
Hello Felicia,
No problem. You can use all renders for your murder mystery party.
They are easy to download without watermark.
I would appreciate it if you included a reference to the website.
Good luck with the murder mystery party!
Hey, I find this work absolutely amazing. True dedication. I’m an individual actually looking for images I could edit into a creative project of mine that would also do a parody of The Shining. I’d need two, three locations at most out of the above and image + panoramic material made available on this site would work just fine (I’d need to alter them of course, but as bases I mean). Could you perhaps contact me about it via email? Thanks in advance!
Hi Inky,
Thanks for the compliment.
I don’t quite understand what images you are looking for. All images can be downloaded from the site in the highest resolution. (right click – save image as)
Let me know if it works.
Hi, deltabuilder. Thanks, that’s what I’ll do, I just wanted to ask your permission to use the mentioned images, altered, for a creative project. Giving attribution of course, on the website.
You have full permission to use images, Inky.
If you would like to mention my name on the website, please do!
I’m generally of the opinion that if you can’t pull off a given surface with textures, then you’re not using your textures effectively enough. Now, I won’t pretend I know anything about VRay (more of a Cycles guy myself) but I’m convinced it’s totally possible to recreate those tiles as a texture and have it look almost identical to what you’ve done here. You’d use the same texture both as a bump map, and to modulate the gloss/roughness. It wouldn’t have quite the same depth to it, but you’d still get that shimmery look. If nothing else, I hope it saves you some render time in the future.
Thanks for the good advice, CubiApoc !
I’m already in the process of replacing all displacement V-ray materials with bump maps. One of the things that actually causes the long render time is that each panel and tile is rendered separately. There are hundreds of tiles. My next step is to replace all gold tiles/panels with proxies and see if that saves time.
Soon I will publish a video clip on my Youtube channel with a trip through the Red Bathroom into the Goldroom, through the hallway to the Lobby.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWUEhkVB02ww4uS8wmSKx6g
Cheers, CubiApoc.