SU and twilight, Laketop Villa

[7homuz]

Hi!
So I'm all new to this modelling and render thing......so please be patient with me if i sound stupid!
Actually I started to play around with Sketchup a month or so ago, but i havnt really spent too much time on it until the past few days.

I modelled and most of the things inside, but i took the dining table/chairs and the bar stools from the 3D warehouse.
I realize i forgot to model the lights. What else should I be doing to make it look better?
Hopefully I will have some more presentable renders soon =D

this was after 1hr 25 mins, still rendering right now but I couldnt wait to put this up and get some critics
I will upload another pic once it reaches 3 hours or so

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[solo]

Thomas, firstly welcome to SCF, I saw your first gallery image at the Twilight forum but will reply here instead.

Good first start, I do not want to give too much advice straight up as I believe one learns one trick at a time.
I will start with the lights, they are too close to walls, or to intense, try moving them or adding more at a lower intensity, that should take care of the glare/burns on the walls/ceiling.
I would also add a light behind camera, that will give the table and chairs some light as they look very dark, and it will help with getting better reflections.

[7homuz]

Thanks solo, i have seen your work (I do stalk this forum quite a bit - the the TR one for the past few days)
I will correct that along with making the light fixtures.

You are right, I tend to try to learn too many things at once and in the end get mediocre results i everything
Hopefully this time i will do it right and learn things step by step hehe

[7homuz]

I tried to lower the brightness of the light strength, went from 1.5 to 1, is it still too bright? I notice theres still glare on the cabinet shelves... the cabinet material is 'shiny' though, maybe i should change it to satin or matt?

this was with easy preset 4, 1 hr 17 mins.

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[7homuz]

oh and i gave the light a tad of color to make it warmer...although i feel its a bit too yellow, got to whiten it a bit next time

[Frederik]

@7homuz said:

oh and i gave the light a tad of color to make it warmer...although i feel its a bit too yellow, got to whiten it a bit next time

I agree with this, but it sure is a great improvement you've made...
I'm sure you quickly will learn and adapt render techniques with Twilight...

[7homuz]

thanks frederik
I updated it a bit more with some suggestions from the TR forum, it looks a bit better now, but i still need to work on it quite a bit to look presentable!
I never thought rendering was so hard =P

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[7homuz]

try my hand at some PS pp

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