Patio cafe

Mike Amos

Another very nice render. Your renders return me to different times and places in my life which is something you get from a good scene and render. This one reminds me of a market held in a small courtyard in Greenwhich, back when I was finishing my army time in the military hospital. There was a French crepe chef who came over every year. He made the most wonderful culinary creations, I can smell them even now. Thanks mate, no idea how but you do it.

On a footnote, we held alcohol dependency courses at the time, the 'clients' would be practically in confinement initially and then be turned loose in groups on trust. You have to trust they will stay away from alcohol. Turns out the local ice cream seller became a great hit with these clients and they went out to his cart/van up to four times a day. Our consultant thought the trust scheme was going great until we found out that the rum and raisin flavour ice cream had real rum in it.

Bryan K

@mike amos said:

Another very nice render. Your renders return me to different times and places in my life which is something you get from a good scene and render. This one reminds me of a market held in a small courtyard in Greenwhich, back when I was finishing my army time in the military hospital. There was a French crepe chef who came over every year. He made the most wonderful culinary creations, I can smell them even now. Thanks mate, no idea how but you do it.

On a footnote, we held alcohol dependency courses at the time, the 'clients' would be practically in confinement initially and then be turned loose in groups on trust. You have to trust they will stay away from alcohol. Turns out the local ice cream seller became a great hit with these clients and they went out to his cart/van up to four times a day. Our consultant thought the trust scheme was going great until we found out that the rum and raisin flavour ice cream had real rum in it.

Thanks mike. That compliment gave me goose bumps. Evoking a feeling from art of all kinds is the hardest thing to do, yet what, in my opinion, good art should strive to accomplish. (and honestly, I don't think I'm that good... yet.)

BTW, my fiance helped me to pick the colors and textures.

Great story about the ice cream truck.

spoink47

That looks nice! Good job
But something seems wrong with the shadows...

Bryan K

@spoink47 said:

That looks nice! Good job
But something seems wrong with the shadows...

Thanks.

Yeah, the shadows just really aren't there and that's not right. I can't figure it out either. This is the only render I've seen this happen.

I need to figure this out.

Bryan K

I figured the problem out. The HDRI dome lighting was too soft, so I added the sun back. Also added an extra tree for more interesting patterning and the coffee sign and went back to a differrent brick.

Minor tweaks on some textures. Changed depth of field on camera.

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