Unrealistic look

[Nacho Angulo]

Hi again,

I've been working in this mountain house, but I can't get a decent sunset ilumination in my opinion. It looks a bit cartoonish.
Do you have any suggestions??

Also, it looks like there is a glitch in the glass just in the middle. Do you have any idea on what it is??


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Thanks.

[Corey Beaulieu]

I think the glass issue is from the max depth value on your refraction. You have 3 windows stacking up right there. Try 10 instead of default 5.

As to the lighting... It's not that bad. I would raise the skylight intensity to really push the blue and then raise the orange intensity as well, but keep the blue dominant and the orange very directional. In my opinion, you want the almost exaggerated lighting from your render and then darken and control it in post. The things we do in post to shape the render into a photo real image tend to darken and wash down the lighting so its important to start with direction and general intensity as your focus.

I think you have a solid directionality and need the intensity.

[Nacho Angulo]

I just found out that the blue thing was the blue vray light that i had placed outside the window. Is using them for the blue tone a good idea?

[Corey Beaulieu]

Yeah, that idea is fine. You may have a more thorough blue, (GI Blue) from a skylight, but the vray plane is fine too. Just un-tick the "Affect Reflection" in the light.

[Umesh Raut]

To me, it seems like you are not using GI at all or may be very little/low settings. It looks to be solely dependent on direct lighting only. Then may be I am wrong because my displays are not colour calibrated.

[Nacho Angulo]

I think its getting better, even though this one came out a bit too dark. But why the outside of the building is so bright??? I'd like it to be less white and more of the tone of the wall at the end of the room.
How can I do that?
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[Corey Beaulieu]

I think you have great "magic hour" style lighting starting to happen. I personally don't think it's too bright at all.

I'm starting to think you want a rendering as if the sun already and all you have is atmospheric light. Try adding a skylight with a nice midnight blue color and an intensity that seems unnaturally high. Then take your direct light at a low angle and really warm up the orange. Reduce that intensity and try to kill the hot spot by angling it over you building or something.

The interior though is going to be pitch black... What's the plan there?

[Adam Hockley]

Yep, that interior room is incredibly dark....you need some indirect ambient light in there....or like they do in the movies, have a blue light cast into the room and get some cool moonlit shadows coming in...

[Nacho Angulo]

Ok, I lost the north on what i was trying to achieve. I realized that if I was making the interior lightning so dark I had to focus on where the light is, the exterior. But I don't know if it's too obvious that thats a HDRi or if I should add for example a christmas tree on some corner with its lights .

I think I should go for a walk and start again with the illumination.

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Edit:

Probably, this is better.

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[Fox Hound]

For me it looks like your sun is too high and power of sun is too high, try to low position of your sun (like sunset) and low power of the sun with warm color like red or orange, in real life sunset is dark so everybody turn light on so I think your primary lightning need to be in your house not the sun. Sun is just for effect of sunset, that is what would I do