Exterior render practice

ambotnimo · 8 Nov 2008, 12:27

guys i need some comments regarding my render...thanks

remus · 8 Nov 2008, 13:07

For those to lazy to click:

As for comments, id say if your going to use cut outs for the people be consistent. Either use silhouettes or use pictures, dont jump between the 2.

If you choose to go with the silhouettes, id change them to a light gray, rather than full black, as the black seems to darken everything unnecessarily.

Anssi · 8 Nov 2008, 17:42

Quite good images. The sky backgrounds seem to be a bit inconsistent with the illumination (setting sun vs. sunrise, and cloudy or impending thunderstorm vs. bright sunlight).

Anssi

jenujacob · 8 Nov 2008, 18:14

these are nice!
though my current freelance employer would say it looks soo gloomy and sad!
which render software did u use?

akololo · 9 Nov 2008, 03:29

im using sketchup v-ray for this one..hehe

akololo · 9 Nov 2008, 03:39

so ill use light gray for people..thanks mate..

Daniel · 10 Nov 2008, 15:03

These look really good, in my opinion. The only thing I would change is the sky in the second and third images - they look great as they are, but I think a more sunnier atmosphere would make them look more inviting.

taber · 10 Nov 2008, 16:15

Great work!! My only comment would be to change the seating in the second image, as they look quite busy and distract from the rest of the composition. They're comming along nicely though.

mateo soletic · 10 Nov 2008, 18:49

Great images.Well done Ambotnimo.
But there is something about Vray that I dont like.
I know many are not going to agree with me but the
colours are a bit flat ,unreal. I dont mean on these
images but it is a consistent thing with Vray.

ehaflett · 10 Nov 2008, 20:33

Pretty nice, good detail and warm color scheme. I did notice that in the 3rd one the woman on the right looks like she's striding headlong into the pool.

solo · 10 Nov 2008, 20:43

I like the renders, if I was to make changes I'd remove the 2d photo people as the sky and people to me seem to conflict.

The water could use a bumpmap or if it does maybe increasing the bump value and texture size to give it more relief and obscure the reflections a little more.

The grass seems to be tiling a bit, possibly exchange it for a more procedural one.

Otherwise these are great renders and a good model.

Jackson · 11 Nov 2008, 06:10

I agree with many of the comments above, good quality renders, but it sure looks like there's a storm-a-coming. Sunnier background maps and adjusting the lighting would make sell the scene better, but perhaps just using PS to play around with levels, gamma, saturation and hue in these images would help.

akololo · 11 Nov 2008, 09:16

hey guys..thank for the suggestions..i really appreaciate it..after all it was a practice..thanks..ill just practice more...to make it better,,,thank you

Jackson · 11 Nov 2008, 12:10

If that's practice then it's extremely impressive, the detail, the modelling and the overall consistency of the render (which is often the hardest part to achieve) is good, but (as I've done myself) it looks like you made so much effort to get the lighting to match the sky that you didn't notice that the sky map wasn't so great to start with! Did you use a spherical texture or is it just a background?

I hope you don't mind, I did little messing in PS with Gamma correction, "replace colour" for the slightly green sky and just painted (very poorly haha) white over the grey clouds- as soon as the image looks a bit sunnier I think it really shows how good the "basic" model and render are.

akololo · 12 Nov 2008, 03:44

very nice!!..the sky was not just an image..it was a dome sky..i used it as a component in SU..hehe..and by the way..this one is a real project..and im still trying to render it as a real one..hehe..

Jackson · 12 Nov 2008, 07:57

@akololo said:

it was a dome sky..i used it as a component in SU
Really? How did you get the sunlight to come through it, did you make it 100% transparent on the backside? I didn't know you could do that in Vray.

A simple, but effective method would be to Google for some nice blue sky photographs and drop them into the alpha mask afterwards or my preferred method is to use 360° skymaps as a background in VRay so that no matter what angle you take your render from the sky will be perfectly aligned. CG Textures have an amazing collection of hemispherical sky photos, but I tend to use Vue to render out spherical skymaps as I can control exactly how much cloud I want, time of day, etc.

Hope this helps, I'm looking forward to seeing your stuff in the future.

p.s. it's a bit confusing when you use two different member accounts to post in the same thread.

akololo · 12 Nov 2008, 12:34

yah...im using CGtextures as well..so i can change my skies using dome sky..ive added a light inside the dome sky..and that would be my source of light..

actually when i render, and even i unchecked the default light and hidden lights from vray option..SU sky will still exist, and i dont know how to turned it off..thats why i did used the dome sky to prevent light coming in..and put a NEW light inside the dome..

hehe..