Any Final Adjustments?

[djohnson129]

Hello, I'm pretty much finished with this project. I just need to find a good image for the environment and maybe add a window frame to the rectangle window above the two chairs.

Does anybody have any final suggestions on what to add for the final renders? Do you like the camera positions I have? In Test22 I'm going to pan the camera a tiget to the left.

Thank you for your input ;D

[Ernest Burden III]

Its a picture about un-even lighting. Re-think the sun angle and introduce some interior lights.

[Aaron2004]

Yeah...I agree, you need interior lights. Right now the rendering looks slightly depressing...like the power went out or something.

[djohnson129]

Thank you for the help The evenness of light has been something I couldnt get right from the beginning. Where do you have in mind for the interior lights? Above the stairs? Are you speaking of spot lights or like a directional light going downwards just to brighten up everything?

[Devin Johnston]

Everything in shadow needs to be brighter but the one thing that's hurting your image the most is your background. If you don't have a good image then just go with a white background, the one you’re using just doesn’t look good.

[Koper]

all of the above, and i would make the floor tiles much smaller and mabye a bit lighter than it is now, thinking about it, maybe the carpet texture as well

[djohnson129]

Thanks again for your help. The first thing I worked on was the shadows; you guys agreed that they be lighter, so I tried doing that so I increased the softness by 15 units. I wasnt sure if thats what you meant or if I needed to changed the actual color of the shadow to a lighter shade. Well I couldnt find the setting that changes shadow color for the daylight system so I just changed the softness. So then I tried using a background image and it obviously looked horrendous (first time trying it), so today I'm going to spend some time in photoshop to make the perspective fit better and perhaps model a deck just outside the windows. O and I also changed the tile size ;D

 

My questions right now are: did you guys want me to change the actual shadow color to a lighter shade? If so, how can I using the daylight system? Also, I found tutorials showing how to load an environment map but those renders looked really bad and so I figure those are just bad tutorials. Does anybody have a more professional tutorial for putting environment maps in the scene? The tutorial I found suggested using a spherical map but it just looks so distorted.

 

If you read all of that then thanks a ton! :DDD

[andreg]

Here's a quick fix in photoshop. hope you don't mind

[manta]

Balconies would make it seem much more real...

[djohnson129]

Ok so I finally got the backgrounds in. Each one is a different look and feel, so please let me know which camera view is best and what I need to change about it. I may have went overboard in photoshop so if they look bad I'd be happy to hear about it

 

....and they're small cuz I had to resize them to fit the KB limit :/

 

Thanks yous!

[manta]

Sorry if I'm reading that wrong...but is that a door that people open and dive into the water ?

[kiittea]

My 2 cents - correct your camera angle first. I would be helpful in adjusting the perspective of the bg

[djohnson129]

Here's the finished one....or the farthest I got. There's a thread in the Finished Works forum I've been posting in, I havent been on this one in a while.