Posts made by davidh

From twilight to final image

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A further image,using a HDRI as the main environment lighting source and with 2 rectangular vray lights inside.As usual,all planting is entourage added in photoshop.

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Roger,thanks very much for your comments.I agree,the daylight vray is not as successful as the last watercolour image regarding depth,a good image should have definition between foreground,middleground and background.
I think that the house being almost pure white,without any texture,dosent help either(I will fix this and repost later).I find personally that dusk shots/early morning shots work so much better because you have more contrast with the light.My background is oil painting/acrylic painting and I am always trying to get the composition right,sometimes to the detriment of other areas.

Attached is a "summer" watercolour(again,a 10 minute twilight render taken thru fotosketcher and post produced in photoshop.)
EDIT- Shadows and colours revised

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2 more images from the same project.The vray summer garden needs to be redone because the brown on the doors and fascias are 2 flat.But because the planting and sky are set up on layers in photoshop ,hopefully all I will have to do is drag the revised render onto a new layer and it will be finished.

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Thanks for the comments guys.
Attached is a revised evening shot.I have added extra vegetation to the right handside to try and "close off" that side as to me the original image was slightly unbalanced.I also added a different sky and increased contrast.What I try and do for night/dusk shots is have a lot of contrast between inside and out,normally in an orange/blue colour scheme.

regarding the watercolour,that was based from a 10 minute render in twilight and brought thru fotosketcher.The time taken for that image was about 20 minutes in total(not including modelling time).The second image was 50 minutes to render in vray and about one and a half hours in post production.A lot ,if not most of my night shots involve some degree of dark foreground as I think it helps not only to bring the viewer into the image but also helps tie the building to its surroundings.
The glass is the standard vray glass but with fresnel reflection increased to 2.5

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Attached are 2 images of the same project,one a fotosketcher version,the second a vray render.I need to revise the lighting in the house and hope to upload some updated vray images in the comming days

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Attached is a work in progress for a recent project.Im trying to finalise the composition ,the vegetation and colours.There is still some modelling work to do but I intend to photoshop all vegetation and the sky,as done here.Hopefully in a couple of weeks I can upload the final image.

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An external view of a project I have uploaded previously.
The foreground elements are all originally .png photo elements brought thru fotosketcher and edited in photoshop.

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fotosketcher straight from sketchup,probably as pure a watercolour effect as I can get..In this image the house has a basic white colour only accentuated by the overlaying of colour.

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Fotosketcher again-Rendered in twilight(it could have been taken directly from sketchup but I wanted the lighting and some reflection).
Also added was a textured watercolour paper,slightly stained(not one of the default fotosketcher textures).

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Tom
Sorry for not replying earlier.when I say splatter I mean any image of watercolour drops or you can use any colourful image and blur it.I have attached one which i normally use as an overlay.the idea is that by blurring the image the colours bleed into each other and this image can then be blended using softlight
or overlay with opacity reduced to 40%.The way I use it is that if I have an area of red/orange in my original image i will use the attached image as is to accentuate the colours.if I have a blue/purple area i will invert the attached image.Sometimes I will use the blue/purple colour over a red colour which helps to add contrast.Normally the blurred image is scaled and positioned around the base image and also selectively erased.Finally once I have the image finished in photoshop I will then take it through fotosketcher a second time and overlay once more in photoshop.It sounds complicated but by having a base photoshop file ready with all the coloured blurred layers set up I only have to drag my original file in and most of the work is done.
I hope this makes some sense!

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Attached is a watercolour based off a twilight render taken through fotosketcher and combined with hidden-line(white,no shadows) export from sketchup.In photoshop I have overlayed multiple watercolour splatter images I downloaded from the internet which were then blurred,stretched and overlayed.This helps to suggest "bleeding" of one colour into another.In total there were 14 layers in the final photoshop document.
Like previous images of this kind I have uploaded,the twilight render was stopped after 10 mins and from render to finished image, time taken was just over 1 hour.

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Ive tweaked the scene slightly because there were a few things I wasnt happy with.Ive added additional trees to the left background,trying to bring in some of the darker reds that are visible in the foreground.I have also added some greener trees at the background base to give more of a contrast with the yellow and orange trees.
Additional leaves at the base of the building were added and the flying leaves in the foreground were cleaned up and cropped.The large overhanging branch at the top left was pulled back in as it looked to be cantilevering too much.I finally then increased the overall warm tone.they are small changes but I think they help for a better compostion.

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attached is the autumn scene.this again uses the same render as that used in the snow scene but with all landscape revisions done in photoshop.
Robert,the water is done using photoshop brushes.you can find them for free on the internet.
Richard,
Now that Ive done spring ,summer,autumn and winter the only thing left is to show it in ruins-stay tuned!

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attached is a winter shot using the same visopt as for the summer evening shot.the only thing difference is that I used a different treeline in the foreground to cast shadows on the house.But this didn't work as I hoped as the shadows from the trees still have a lot of foliage indicated.Ill do a re-render with more winter type trees.The real benefit is that all the snow,planting,sky etc is all on individual photoshop layers so once I have the new render done it is simply a matter of dragging and dropping the render image into the photoshop file,with some small colour correction.
I am working on an Autumn scene using the same elements and hope to upload next week.

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A small bit more water ...

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Attached are 2 more images,the first the original from VRAY.Post processing is a must with night shots in order to get the correct tone overall.As you can see in my night shots I like to ramp up the colour saturation considerably and I always try to get as much contrast between the internal lighting and the external lighting.

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I dont think I have ever used an image without some post processsing.I normally add all vegetation,people cars etc as well as usually replacing the sky.The image would also have colour,saturation,levels etc altered in photoshop.Without a doubt,the end result is always much better than what I would get directly from Vray.It is also much faster.Below are 2 final images along with the original render from vray.

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Hi kalu
I noticed the 2 images you referenced were 2 of mine.Below is a link to a topic where I uploaded the visopt and the background image.There is also a basic explanation of what to do in photoshop when you have rendered the image.Hope this helps.

http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=23130&start=15