Neat posts. Perhaps you can change the direction of the wood grain to go parallel to the long sides of beams etc.

Defense of the ancients, according to google.

perfect idea, thank you!

i actually like the way podium retain the sketchup texture. so projecting images + texture positioning is really great ease.
yeah thanks frederivk for liking those last images. 😄

Yes, you are right, it certainly wasn't giving Kerkythea a chance, but considering I didn't even know how to tweak the glass when I posted this morning, I'm coming along.

Kerkythea glass tweaked

Of the 3 id go for the 1st one, i find the linework a it overpowering in the second 2.

Overall i tihnk the linework could do with being toned down a bit, good use of colours though, very subtle.

I edited your post above (use the edit option to see the posting of a you tube video code)

As an experienced smoker I know that those lines on the cigarettes are toned down a whole lot more... well on my marlboros they are! You should've done a Bic lighter as well... we all know any other brand sucks... the spring always break! I agree with Modelhead about the subject... 😄

Thank you nomer.

They both look great, but for a retail shop I would go with the brighter of the two.

Yowzers! You are proving all those people who say "SU isn't good at organic modeling" wrong!

Pugs, great job so far. I would suggest upping the scale of the textures on the rock and roof, so you don't that repeat. Are you using seamless textures?

Alan, love your work! This is a very nice style and I like the added ground cover in the last one. I think the yellow in the foreground could be more subdued. It keep drawing my eye there rather then the pavilion which is the focus of the rendering not the ground.

Those are some ugly piggy banks, but great rendering 😛

Thanks everyone for welcoming me to the forum and for viewing and responding to my post.

To answer your question, Bytor, i've only used the kt point and spot lights (and obviously the sun). I light my scenes minimally and I use false emitters for the cans in certain situations to decrease my render times. I have toggled with IES lights, and actually like using them, but again, they increase the render times. So if I can achieve a decent effect, I just go with the basics. Thanks for your compliments- they're much appreciated.

I don't want school to start tomorrow- i'm not gonna have time to play anymore 😢

Dale, and others who are new- or still learning KT, I can't encourage you enough to visit http://www.kerkythea.com/joomla and start posting your works for feedback and instruction on your renders. The team, and other members there are tremendously supportive- i would have given up after the first day without them !!

Hope all of you have a good week!!!!

-Calvin

Forgotten

King Kwistembiebel,

Willed body wars action.

This is Dr. Timothy Leary, no?

Are you into the action that he wrote a book on the Jack bird Tarot?

Yeah, baby, the Thoth to be specific...

Bring that.

A curved channel cheese gymnasium is my take.

Brain spark sequence initiated...

Assign brain waves...

Count down under way...

Bowels armed....

Discharge and launch...

Vectoring on target...

Spare no gas...

Durant "put it into practice" Hapke

Thanks again guys 😉 . The swimming 'man glue' is not my own unfortunately, it's an added segment I found on youtube and is credited at the end. I wonder what they used though..

The white walls looks plastis I think.

Looks cool Dolphus, I thought of helicopters from the firs moment i saw these cars.The Mark II reminds me a little of my Airdrop car, that red thingy that looks like a cute bug 😛.

jason,
Thanks! the glass part was a bit hard infact.. took me a lot of time and trials to get it right.
Tom,
Initally, the finish was supposed to be plain stucco with grooves.. later on they decided to go with stone cladding.. well i was in a kind of rush and couldnt wait to reimport the model again without those grooves.. but u spotted it well! 😉 thanks once again!