American cinema

[xonpt]

this is great!

but if i may point out 2 things that would make it even better:

1. no street lamps; by 1930s all these busy streets had street lights

2. cars in the middle of the street with no drivers; maybe darken and add some reflection to the windshields, so that you cant see that there is no driver

but those are just "moddel" issues... the rendering and post-processing are very good

[Daniel]

Beautiful renderings, sir. A theatre would not have trees in front of it, though, as they block the marquee. Not only from a visibility standpoint, but for changing the letters on it.

[davidh]

You are right about the trees,but I wanted to bring in some natural elements to the images.

I have attached a recent Thea render of the street without artistic impression,although the foreground planting is post processed in photoshop.

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[Tobobo]

Very Nice!!

[davidh]

Attached are 3 images from the same main street but from a modern, more cynical point of view.
Like before all models for the buildings are from 3D warehouse and the cars are Dosch cars.
I think the tarmac area is too wide, maybe it needs something running along the diagonal but I wanted to get as much reflections as possible.

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[davidh]

One more with added glow to the lights to help accentuate the damp wet evening mood.

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[jo-ke]

Wow, perfect as always!

[davidh]

here's a view from the other direction.

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[cuttingedge]

Awesome as always.. YOu know how to liven up a raw render ...How do you do the wet concrete,and road? must be a big hi res map? where can I get this?

[davidh]

The wet asphalt is a Thea Render material available at :http://www.thearender.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=5263&hilit=wet+asphalt

I use it a lot particularly in my night renders

[olishea]

There's something a little bit "Edward Hopper" about these images, some sort of suspense. I love them!

[davidh]

I really, really love Hopper and what I get from him is a perfect stilness.

I actually had some low polygon people in my Thea set ups but forgot to turn the layers on.
When I did,the images became something else,so even though the cars are there,I much prefer the sense of stillness but without human interaction,if that makes sense.

[olishea]

@davidh said:

I really, really love Hopper and what I get from him is a perfect stilness.

I actually had some low polygon people in my Thea set ups but forgot to turn the layers on.
When I did,the images became something else,so even though the cars are there,I much prefer the sense of stillness but without human interaction,if that makes sense.

Great stuff, Hopper is one of my favourites. Yes I agree, a perfect stillness but with undertones of something imminent.

I think the people would have made it more arch-viz instead of impressionistic. I really love what you've done. Keep it up David!

[davidh]

A version of the old main street with the carnival in town

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[pbacot]

Thanks for posting these. Really like the old cars and truck! And ditto on the mood and rendering comments. All great!

[davidh]

Most of my images are about empty spaces , i.e. no people - a moment caught out of time
Here's 2 more NPR images, concentrating again on light.

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