That's some attic ! Well done.

The first one you've seen before, just updated. The second one is the reverse view on the same floor using the same time of day light. [image: 6RD8_Lakehousediningfloor.jpg] [image: 1Xzw_Lakehousediningfloor2.jpg]

Nice!

Likewise, thinking this was a photo. You have an eye for setting a scene and framing a render that is just special. Yourself and John just make my jaw hit the floor.

Excellent renders!

Superb.

Great render.

Another hit, good enough to stick on a wrist and go.

Seriously good, needs a bolder strewn floor though.

Excellent!

Yes Brett i think your right just slightly too chunky. Thanks for the comment.

@firstliight said: I love using sketchup and lumion, lately I have ideas of shapes I want to try that I don't yet know how to create in sketchup, more organic type buildings like Zaha Hadid. I have been thinking of trying FormZ 8 to model with because its something like sketchup but with nurbs tools. Aaron, you don't need FormZ or any other more robust programs like Maya or Max because you can virtually build anything in SketchUp, including organic shapes like Zaha Hadid's architecture, by using plugins. Check out the Plugin forum (http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=323, as well as the Extension Warehouse and Extension Store (you have to install it) for all the Plugins available. Some are free and others cost a bit of money but it's all worth it. Some of my favorite are from TIG, Fredo6, Chris Fulllmer, thomthom, Whaat, just to name a few. If you want to do organic shapes, check out SUbD by Thomas Thomassen (http://evilsoftwareempire.com/subd. Best of luck! _KN

Much classier design than the current. As always, excellent modeling, render and pano!

I went to a Turkish Barber in Riyadh and he used the straight razor on the admittedly few occasions I had shave AND haircut, him I trusted, me I am not too sure about The string thing for stray hairs on the face, neck and sideburn region I did not get used to and strikes me as being like waxing. Something I could not get over was the fact that we had Greeks and Turks working over there and they are some of the nicest, most genuine people I have ever met. Put them together and it was like oil and water sometimes.

Thanks Mike!

Very nice job. Light looks great!

Thanks John!

Thanks Mike and Pbacot. Raylectron makes these small scene renders very easy. All I really have to do its use pre-sets for the materials and minor adjustment of the light and it's done in 5 minutes. This model uses just 3 materials: wood, metal and black. I tell Raylectron to make the metal chrome, the wood shiny and then just use Sketchup's sun and Raylectron's default environment.

Thanks Paul. Some good things to consider. I appreciate it. The design of the kitchen was pre-made by Kitchenmaid and is a model available from the 3D Warehouse, but without lights and refrigerator. I didn't modify it much except to add the refrigerator, microwave, the fruit bowl, cutting board, coffee cup, dishes, lights and cutting board. All the other counter things were already in place. (wait, that sounds like a lot) The model geometry itself is a mess. I spent some time cleaning it up, but just gave up after I found more and more things wrong with it. Materials especially. This really wasn't a design exercise so much as a render exercise. The track lighting on the cabinets is a good example. It should be glare. That was the effect I was trying to achieve, not as a wanted effect, but to see what the render program would do, yet the render program didn't do it. The lights over the sink are strange too. They should light up the interior of the metal shade, yet they barely do. I think his is why several people have asked about the light sources. I need to look further into that. Material settings are all me. I did not spend more time with the pre-set materials that came with the model. All that said, I really do appreciate your feedback. It's those kind of tips that will help me avoid future mistakes when I start to make my own interiors. This is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for. (as well as compliments of course ) So again thanks for the critique and let me know if you see any other things that can be improved in my future renders. I'm really trying to move beyond just lighting. I'm trying to achieve an "atmosphere" effect, but I know that just comes with practice.

I like the design of the main home/cabin. In my opinion the garage and free standing... garbage can hut...? do not fit style-wise with the home. That is just an opinion and of course everyone has their own:) The thing I notice about your render is the composition. It feels a bit flat. as if the building were sitting on a perfectly flat plane and just rotated a bit. I would suggest rotating the view a little so you are looking slightly up at it. It feels almost as if a 2d view was just spun on the vertical axis. Nice curb and driveway. Although I think the asphalt is too light. Another thing that would help the composition would to be to add some foreground plants or bushes and plant some trees behind the camera to cast some shadows on the lawn. The lawn as it is, is too flat and too lime green to be convincing. How about some furniture on the upper deck? The roof texture is not great. The bench is kind of in an odd place. Would you be staring at the garage wall with your knees under your chin if you were sitting on it? The bushes look like photos of bushes sitting on a flat plane. If you add some bushy small plants at the base of those bushes it will help them feel grounded. Do not be afraid to add some more plants and shrubs. The very limited amount you used feels like the home owner ran out of money before finishing the landscape:) The planter thing hanging from the deck looks lonely. Such a symmetrical form, one would think maybe hanging two of them. I have never been a fan of cars parked in front of houses, unless I am selling cars, not homes. I hope you take all of that as not just criticism, but as a constructive critique. paul