Busy night downtown

[alias_marks]

here's a shot I've been working on for a while. I say it's still incomplete because the design will still be changing quite a bit.

 

I really wanted to push the interior livelyness of this one. Up till now, for my evening shots, I've just placed vray plane lights at every floor.

 

I always wanted to see how I could get more unique interior lighting, so I custom made all the interior materials to try and populate it a bit more. What do you think?

 

I think the composition on this one still needs a bit of tweaking as well. It seems a little un-proportional the more I look at it.

 

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/aliasmarks/Panoramanight18thResidentialElevate.jpg

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

I think the composition on this one still needs a bit of tweaking as well. It seems a little un-proportional the more I look at it.

 

The liveliness is great, though it would be nice if there were a few more people around. The forced perspective is throwing the scale off for me. It is giving it a feeling that the building is bowing out slightly. Maybe try beringing it back a little under will correct this problem.

[Koper]

id say thats almost a wrap. the only thing i see is the street that should be behind the tree on the right, and the tree also motion blurred, and then, as it looks like a long exposure i won't add people, or very strong m-blurred people

 

your interiors looks gr8 along with as well as the light that bleeds outward onto the walls

gr8 image

[Nic H]

excellent interiors, definately worth the time detailign those up.

 

I agree with the slightly forced perspective comments though, I also think the base / podium could do with some more detail - otherwise great.

[alias_marks]

Hey guys appreciate the comments. I tend to over correct sometimes I think. This is an earlier version where I thought the top looked a bit too flat, so I forced the perspective to get a little more dynamic.

 

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b253/aliasmarks/Panoramanight18thResidentialElev-1.jpg

 

Probably somewhere in between the two?

[Billabong]

I think that first one is fantastic. Seriously, it looks great to me.

[gfa2]

I'm liking the 1st one way better. The perspective looks really off on the second and the bottom third is too strong on the yellow light. The corrected light trails in the second one is nice though.

[Swapnil Deshmukh]

Overall, an awesome work. Even I faced the same problem with interior so I used proxies to make it look real. I think the blue ambience of sky is not enough visible on the top side of building as it won't fall on the lower level. The light fallen on the building due to streetlight is good. one more thing. The fold where the walls meet perpendicular might look good if are shown prominently.

[Koper]

nah, I like the image you posted 1st, i like the huge-ness of it, the second one don't have that wow-factor. maybe just skew the vertical lines a tiny bit of the first post

[ApeiNe]

i prefer the 1st one too

Maybe you could composite a pass of AO, and add some more details in the background

keep it up

[mskin]

i agree with all others... nice image. but for a busy night down town, there are no cars, and no paris hilton?

[alias_marks]

Thanks for the comments guys. I think and AO pass is definitely in order. That seems to slip by the waistside in my workflow every once in a while.

 

I'll post an update as the design becomes more final.

 

M-

[aflack]

The image is looking great but to me it all looks over exposed, just playing with the levels in photoshop grounds the image much better giving a more realistic feel.

 

With these type of images it all about making the windows glow and I think you have done a good job its just the walls are too bright so its taking away from the work you have done on the windows.

 

This is just level adjustment in Photoshop, but IMO this looks more realistic.