This is also Rich' virgin forum so easy with him!

Its pretty much about finding an image with the correct lighting for the snow.After that its a combination of cloning and distorting, copying parts around the image and blending them together.But if you dont have the correct lighting it will become very obvious very quickly. What you need to do is find images that have the same colour sky as the sky in the render.This way,not only will you have the correct lighting,but also the correct radiosity colour on your inserted elements.

Overall the best winter renders I remember seeing. Anssi

David, Thanks for sharing your thoughts. Some mind candy for the day. Peter

Like postcards .

A collection of the images for this project so far. [image: 8Vnh_Housemultiimages2.jpg]

i'm missing people or furniture into the houses. Like the final result. Good job!

Like this a lot. You could go for it a little more and loosen up if you really want to achieve the watercolour look. Reminds me of Thomas Schaller's work. good stuff

Alex Romax does model a lot in his scene, he also does a lot of post-pro-ing to set a extraordinary mood

excellent mood for the last. but i like the storm more.

David, send your email to r.b.hawkins@alumni.cmu.edu and I will mail you some sky files.

Masterful! What a beautiful presentation. This is one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing.

awesome - totally great stuff.

Many thanks for the mxm. I look forwards to using it.

2 more images,the second is a part post processed maxwell image,based on the villa model previously uploaded by Hieru. Rich ,currently I have a demo version of Thea.I had access to the full version a few months ago but the company I was doing work for at the time are no longer in business.From what I see of thea it looks great but as I have already purchased vray,twilight and maxwell I am not in a position to purchase thea (as of yet).Currently I'm just playing around with different presentation styles/lighting moods.The method for the polaroid images is quite simple,overlay an orange/brown colour,add motion blur,add gaussian blur,add foreground elements and a vignete and thats it. [image: SXk8_polaroid15.jpg] [image: 5oaN_originalmaxwellrender.jpg]

The new one is awesome. Great work. Especially on the roof. My critique would be the crop on the image is a little tight. Open up the view of the patio a little to add more of a "welcome to my backyard" feel.

attached are screensnaps of the actual resolution of the image,to say it broke my heart would be an understatment. [image: zwhm_ScreenHunter_001.jpg] [image: iMoa_ScreenHunter_002.jpg] [image: foVg_ScreenHunter_003.jpg] [image: jn4J_ScreenHunter_005.jpg]

Not that it really matter, but take a look at the dates... This thread is back from June 2011...

Nice work David! The forground especially looks TRICK! Looks like those shutters to the upper floor could use some damage though!

2 more study hall images with different materials [image: hQ01_studyhallARTLANTIS4.jpg] [image: ZEHc_studyhallARTLANTIS5.jpg]