exterior still

[louis.cho]

Hi, I finnaly deceided to post here since my thread in the finished work got more comment that I imagined. You can see pics and comments with this link

 

I sleep on these comments last night. I decided to change the camera view to center the look on the house and insert one big tree behind the house to add organic element without getting lost in a big environment.

 

what's tickle me is the jonction between the house and the ground. I wanted to add flowers but I don't know how to do it. Any suggestion?

I use max 9 and mental ray 3.5, light is a mrSun/mrSky with myPhysicalSky in the environment slot.

 

thanks for help, any comments is very helpful.

[mikedeerf]

I like the change - you can definitely tell the subject is the building. I like the tree better than the X-trees, too.

 

I do have to say that I really liked your 3rd shot in the other post. I agree with the others who said it was hard to know what your subject was. But it also has a look I haven't seen a lot. Hard to explain, but it's as if the subject matter is about to enter. Like it's the opening of a scene in a pixar film - I expect any second to see a CG character come bounding down the hill, or pop out from behind the building.

I guess I'm saying your environment had a nice "feel" to it, whatever that means.

[louis.cho]

Updates to all images. You can see I add some bush and improve the base of the fondation. Hope you like it.

 

As usual, thanks for your help

[3dSol]

great progress! the wood reflection looks a bit plastic on the shade side

good luck, keep posting!

[mikedeerf]

Coming along nicely. The bushes help a lot - what are you using to create them? Also your tree is looking a lot better at that render quality. Nice work.

[tanni]

What type of glass you ate using on doors and windows? This look too solid like LCD monitor...

[louis.cho]

yeah, it's look like LCD monitor

 

I wanted tinted glass because I didn't want to see the interior in this view and let the viewer concentrate to the exterior shape and materials. Also I didn't want to make a hight gloss reflection liek a mirror or a 'real' windows because my environment is so simple that there is just nothing to reflect and it's looks strange. This glossy LCD material add a kind or NPR look to the image. Am I right?

 

mikedeerf: I use Onyx trees (boardleaf) to create my vegetation and most of the time I change textures and colors of leafs.

 

I lack of time, so I think I will go with the animation and see what it's does. I will return to improve the scene later.

 

Anything else?

[mikedeerf]

Man, I have GOT to find a way to finance that Onyx package. It's such a tough sell here without a trial version - hope they someday add that option.

 

Anyway, yeah, I kinda like the black windows for your NPR look. But that's just me talking.

 

Thanks

[louis.cho]

thanks for your comments mikedeerf

 

The complete onyx trees package reach 500$US...it's worth the price since it's one of the best plug-in for arch viz.

 

You can begin with just Boardleaf pack, it's will be a nice add to your pipeline.

 

The only one I can't access is the garden suite and I want it for christmas!

 

here's the update for the daylight image, I added for with the haze/visibility control. I think I am one the way

[louis.cho]

I made the animatino last night and some composition test in combustion. telle me what you think and sorry for the poor quality

 

PS: Do someone know if I must raise the FG setting of Mr 3.5 when I use low visibility like 75m? I noticed some flikers in dark or detailled areas. thanks

 

you can see the anim here:

http://s51.photobucket.com/albums/f398/docmeduse/?action=view&current=Sq1.flv