old barn

[esilvis]

Old barn - exercise in fading paint.

all c&c welcome.

 

max

poser 5

xfrog

 

Good place to be

 

Thanks

 

Eric

[Andrew Schroeder]

Hi Eric,

 

Looks like you put a lot of work into the image. Things I notice right away are the people, the foreground leaves (sharp angles), grass, and sky. The faded paint though looks good! The other aspects though, could use some attention. Grass is a tough one, which renderer are you using? There a lot of resources for skies that you can track down through these forums if you do a few searches, and the foreground tree limb... I typically get better results through xfrog because the leaves are opacity mapped. Yours look like geometry here, and that's a dead give away of 3D. As for the people, well, I don't think there is a good solution at present, and I try to stay away from them.

[esilvis]

Andrew,

 

Thanks for the comments on the barn.

The trees are xfrog, might just do away with the closest tree??

For the longer grass, I used hair and fur modifier.

I dont mind the people (poser) gives some scale and personal feel.

The sky is a gradient applied to a sphere. PS sky image faded into, maybe not the best choice.

 

I live in rural Wisconsin, and used the old barns I see traveling to and from

work as a reference for the fading paint.

 

Thanks again for the comments.

 

Eric