stefan,

wow the composition is good indeed. i dont have any comment on the modelling part though. the only thing is to increase the subdivision of your blurry reflection. your blurry reflections are very noisy especially on the angle that you have chosen.

very beautiful design. the presentation is WOOOWW

stefan,

actually its looking good. dont give up finish it. im sure you will be proud once you have done it.

@richard said:

Mate I can only see a bit of the pot, no towel but nice floor, wall in background is really shinny and looks way out of focus!

hi richard, thanks man. okie the towel or rug or somthing is inserted in between the slats. yeah i think i did put too much bump on the wall.

@kwistenbiebel said:

They should call you the 'romantic'.
Another lovely scene.

A full 3D bonsai would have enhanced it even more.

thanks kwist again. "romantic??" an old antic from rome? ask my wife if i am. and sher will say WHAAAAAAAAAATTTTTT?
indeed a 3d bonsai will be much better. any lead where to have free one jsut for this project.

@remus said:

Thats really good, the bonsai seems to let it down a bit though, it looks like a clipmap. Perhaps if you just model the pot then do the folige as a clip you'll get a more realistic overall finish.

the bonsai is indeed a clipmap. this is where i think xfrog trees has advantage.

@kwick7 said:

Looks fantastic!
thanks kwick

just finished it today.

the stones were modelled using bezier round edges. towel amd pole using Subdivide and smooth. the bonsai is just a clipmap.
Did some PS of some sharp edges and added diffuse filter for the bloom.
rendered in Vray for SU

thanks mark. yeah sometimes that rubbish fight attention with the main focue, nevertheless, i think ill just put it that way, perhaps just personal prefernce.
i think one of the power to quickly good realistic model is really modelling from photo and projecting the image with it. the only downside is when you see the projecting image on the side. but if you have another texture of the side it doesnt matter then. if you will view the eyecandy of silvershadow, most of the model was done on this same. Just look how he carefully traced the coble stones, shich he said he took him some hours of doing it.

one chair to philippines (but still stranded in vietnam)

I rerendered the image. this time added some floating rubbish. made the water more brownish.

actually the door was modlled from a photo and the texture was projected to the modelled door. i found sketchup really handy with that.

thanks guys from your comments and critics. really appreciate them. as for the modelling, indeed i still need to funnel my energy unto it.
just a background with the above. its my neighbourhood in hanoi. I stayed on this old village before in which the alley are like maze. during the heavy rainy season, all drainage go to this man made lake and sometimes flashflood. so some alleys were get inundated. lucky we have all this network of alleys and still manage to go in and out.

Those numbers. I took a lot of photograph, for me they are one of the thing that you can find in vietnam alone. They are actually advertisment. so if you need their service you have to call that number.

what is this all about. i should say, i am looking for an avenue to express my memories and my feelings towards some issues. I really hope that i can make an art thing out of it using 3dsketchup and 3d rendering engine as my media. in 6-8 months i am planning an exhibition here in saigon. i dont know if the above will be included. who knows they will be. for the meantime i am enjoying doing this.
kwist. you always motivate me with your comment, thanks.

its a continuation of my series memories of hanoi.

-the door was a photograph and i have to do the modelling in su direct on the photograph. then i applied the whole map (projection) on the modelled door.
i added bump also unto it.

• water: i used sandbox and smoove too. so that its not flat. i also used the water texture of silver shadow he shared in his eyecandy.
• broom was also modelled from photo. but i have to use post processing on the hairy part.
• finally the soft shadow is using sun vray physical size of 3.
• added a slight "diffuse glow" on top in PS.

inspired by edson comment "about digital still life". well my passion in using 3d and art parallel together has been awaken again. i planned this one for long time and only this afternoon i started and tried to finish it.

here is the screengrab.

maybe i will be doing series called : my "Memories of Hanoi" but direct 3d rendering output.

okay here is the firs rendered one.

@unknownuser said:

Thanks for the screen grab. I was indeed wrong. Thank God for coffee!

welcome back stinkie.. hehehe

@kwistenbiebel said:

Nice equilibrated scene Nomer. I always love your compositions and the subtle light you add.

A little question though: some of the objects are quite hard edged, maybe it is because of sharp AA settings (catmull Rom)?. Did you use Fresnel reflections on those materials?

fresnel reflection has been added. just 1.35multiplier.
.85 blurrr reflection for tomato
.95 fortabasco
.85 for plate

• the placemat is just texture with bump and clipmap.

lighted up with two rectangular light from the ceiling and another big rect light in front with very small multiplier, to smoothen the IR calculation but not really affecting the scene.

i reckoned the hard edge is more on unbevelled models pointed out by remus.

@remus said:

Nice render, although i reckon another level of detail (bevelling edges etc.) would make it a much better render...

thanks for pointing that remus. i am actually playing with that "round edge with bezier" but then i have difficulty in removing the smoothness when i want to add projected texture.

a closeup with tomatoes. vignetting effect has been added in photoshop.