Luxury Hotel critique

[wilky9]

This is just about done. I welcome any criticism you might offer. Not my design, so I can't make any structural changes, or change colors. Thanks!

Rendered in Lightwave with FPrime. Composited with Photoshop.

[dbarc]

Photoshop out the van - it's not in keeping with a luxury hotel (oh dear I appear to be getting as pedantic as my clients)

[Tony]

Nice job of matching the forground plate. I think the glass looks fine to me. I have seldom seen a building like this where the clear glass was extremely reflective. What with smog, acid rain and the like, most clear glass windows have a hase to them and don't reflect color all that well shortly after being built. That of course, is only my humble opinion.

 

Tony

[IC]

That looks really great. It could be a bit brighter but it's a very strong image.

The grid (watermark?) is a bit distracting.

 

Good to see another FPrime user

[STRAT]

i agree about those 2 vans though. i'd seriously consider taking them out.

[alfienoakes]

Reallly nice composition.

 

Perhaps the contrast on the new build needs to be raised a touch, as it is clearly a really bright sunny day on the original image.. new one just looks a bit to murky.. not much though!

 

Agree with the water mark as well..its all I saw at first!

 

Maybe the van is a contractor who has had to come back to fix something.. then again, its contractors that have most of the money these days, so maybe he is booked in..

 

Andy

[wilky9]

Thanks everyone. I screwed up my account settings, so I couldn't post a reply.

I didn't realize the watermark would have such an effect! I'll tone it down or remove it in the future.

 

I've added a little more contrast to the building, and increased the saturation. The walls are actually kind of a pink color, and that isn't coming across. I'll post a new version as soon as I can.

 

edit:

 

FPrime is a renderer for LightWave. The cool thing about it is that it makes incremental saves of your render. As soon as it gets the first one done, I can load it into Photoshop and start playing around, while FPrime is working. It keeps increasing the image quality until you tell it to stop. Also, it can pick up where you left off, so you don't have to start your render all over. AND, you can use it to reproduce your camera view, with real-time GI. As the kids say, it's tight, yo. One of the only features (although it is a commercial plug-in) of LightWave that I like better than MAX.