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Thanks for the advice. I only used 2 lights in the renderings. For commercial exterior renderings, I think the quality of Vray with 2 lights or even 1 is not bad. Maybe it's the post touches added that make some shading appears incorrect.

Roads and cars are models, trees and people are pasted in Photoshop. Make sure the shading of trees coordinate with the light source.

This is a busy year, because the housing market is hot. But with the increase of interest rate, I don't think it'll keep this strong. Hope it'll not collapse like the .COM bubble 5 years ago. Some of my renderings this year. I know they're unnaturally saturated. But the purpose of renderings is for marketing use, to make clients satified is most important.

Thanks Fredi for your advice. I think sometimes I oversaturated colors. Brian: the grass is a pasted photo, I rendered the mask of the lawn and paste a photo into it. For stills, I always do like that. I've tried different ways I think this is a relatively better choice, save a lot time. Mark: the cars were rendered seperately with mask and then pasted into the image, I think it can save some time. I usually collapse or group the same material objects and render the masks individually. In photoshop you can have a better control over each object.

C & C are welcome. Add a bit glow and blur to the third image. Thanks.

If you're using 3ds Max, I suggest using Intel CPU instead of AMD's, because 3ds Max and Vray has been optimized for intel CPU (from version 6) and it should be much faster than AMD when using these software. Also there seem to be some problem with AMD's new 64 athlon CPU, lots of tests show when render a image a AMD 64 3000+ is no better than AMD athlon 2500. But if you're using MAYA, AMD seems to be a better choice.

Hi: Adam, hope you get your project done soon. Recently more and more architects are having renderings done in house. Don't know if I can still make a living by doing renderings. Most of my works I didn't calculate the time I spent. Because a lot of stuff the client didn't decided yet. Such as materials, landscaping... Rendering approval images is neccesary. For this one, I think I spend more than 30 hours.

this is a Florida project, not in Canada.

Thanks, Tim. The glow may seems a bit too much. My thought was in florida it's sunny and humid, the glow may convey that kind of atmosphere. Maybe too much. Hey Rob, I duplicate the layer and blurred it and adjust the contrast, make the layer mode screen. May need a lot adjustment on brightness, contrast, saturation etc.

Hi: Jeff, I used shadow/matte materials to render the masks that I need. In this one, the group of chairs, lawn,roof,etc. I did spend a lot of time on this rendering. Some of the tropical plants are cut in photoshop myself. The retouching took much more time than modeling and rendering. I think if I work in a firm, the boss wouldn't like me to do this way. It is time comsuming.

After effects is like a dynamic photoshop, it mainly deals with video "retouching". It's more like "vertical" editing with using a lot of layers to create and animate what you want. I think the color correction is extremely useful. Also try to learn some plugins After effects is like 3dsmax, a lot functions and effects are achieved using third party plugins. Premiere is for editing, it's like "horizontal" editing, mainly deals with a bit longer composition of videos, (the way is a bit like power point). For short ones, you can just use after effects.

Hi, this is my latest work. I used a lot of entourage to create the atmosphere. I think for some work, photoretouching is more important than rendering. C & C are welcome. Thank you.

read the help files about the map channel, and also use mix or blend materials,and remember to assign the mask a different map channel ID. when you apply multiple UVW modifiers, assign each different mask in the material editor and the UVW modifiers different map channel ID.

TMPGEnc is definitely the best tool to compress your video to MPEG1 or MPEG2(dvd), very fast, and the quality is much better than the mpeg compressor premiere has.