@focpt said:

Excellent lighting, and I like how the entourage doesn't distract from the subject (building). One thing that bothers me is the perspective, the vertical lines on the building all aren't vertical. Maybe try two point perspective.

The three point perspective bugs me as well...almost always. Though I believe that Podium cant render a two point perspective.
Thanks for your comments!
~e

Hello All,

Back to rendering days (for a bit) after a long time. This time I tried Podium v2. Love the program for its simplicity!
The images below are 'SU native', 'Podium Bake' and 'Photoshoped Final'. I rendered using the night style and exterior_QMC. It baked for 16h45m at 5028x2097. The images here have been reduced for web viewing. Thanks and C&C welcome.

Best,
~e

@landie said:

I go by first reaction. In this case I was impressed. You've hit on a light wash look which is exactly how watercolour can be used. The line work sits well back and the stylised trees work really well. I think you got it right. As for the sky, you should fade to a pale yellow in the far right...have a look at Thomas Schallers work
I do agree with Davidh about adding more to the foreground and creating that dark/light/dark/light layering with shadow. But you're well on your way.

Thanks for your comments and suggestion. I was trying to achieve an evening scene hence a brighter yellow in West (far right).

@davidh said:

I think what you really need here is some shadowing.It can help break up large areas of colour into different tones of the same colour.For instance,some foreground shadows on the road cast from trees behind the camera.This will also result in the foreground being darker than the middle ground where you want people to focus(in this case on the building) Remember shadows are not simply ‘black’. Use darker tones of the colors in the objects, or dark complementary colours.

I would also add some texture to some of the materials,maybe a bump map or even some paving slabs to the pavement.This will also help break up areas of continuous colour.

Finally,and this is just my preference, I would increase contrast and saturation in order to get the image to stand out.Dont be afraid of having dark areas in the image,thats the only way for the light areas to really work

here is a tutorial I did last year on post processing
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=31369

Thanks for your suggestions David. I have been following your inspiring work here.

An attempt at NPR. Various_SU_styles>photoshop_layering>Fotosketcher>photoshop_adjustment. Critique please? How can I improve? I have stared at the image long enough and it seemed a bit flat to me. I struggled with NPR sky as well before settling on this current version.

yeah I believe they are going to show the recording. dont know what time...it'll be 8:08 somewhere

@unknownuser said:

Sweet model... Bob how did you watch the opening ceremonies? I thought it didn't start until 8:08 pm tonight

8:08 pm Friday china time = 5:08 am Friday US pacific time

Something is messed up.
The slider is around 'Noon' but the display is showing 7:50 AM??!!!!
...and the cast shadow is neither like what is expected to be at noon or 7:50 am on a June morning in Portland, OR?!!!

thanks! should have looked around...

Thanks for the ideas Jean. always helpful...

I guess what i'd like is something like in AutoCAD.

• there is osnap toggle (on/off)
• you can set what all you'd like to snap to....endpoint, midpoint, intersection etc etc
• and at the same time you can force it to snap to anything (by context clicking)as well...