Personal Practice

[jinsley]

Lately I have been trying out a different workflow, instead of modelling 100% in CAD, I have been trying to clean up the drawings and then model in Max. Not sure which I prefer yet, both have strengths and the CAD approach is nice because of the file link manager. In the end, I kind of see myself using a blend of the two approaches.

 

Model is based on a sketch I did a while back... don't know what building it is. If you do, I wouldn't mind knowing. Modelled 100% in Max for practice using editable polys, modifier stacks, etc...

 

Also practicing my foliage creation and rendering.

 

Let me know what you think!

 

Thx!

 

-JI

[Tommy L]

Its an architects country retreat. Oh yeah, thats right, architects dont have country retreats. They cant afford them and they dont have days off to use them.

[easy3dsource]

The terrain looks great. The grass looks very natural, and the trees blend in very well.

[Gary Ledgerwood]

Very nice image. Are all of your trees and plants added post pro?

 

The sky looks a bit funny to me. As if the clouds were hand painted.

[jinsley]

Tommy, you're right about that... although I will say that they seem to flock to Florida and Arizona... at least from the Vancouver area. Must be sick of the rain by the time they retire...

 

Trees and plants are onyx, rendered in max using proxies. Tree models are around 1.5 million polys, bushes are around 60 - 80 thousand, and the grass is 2000 polys per proxy. Used around 80,000 proxies for the grass...

 

Clouds might look funny because I painted them with my tablet in post... still trying to find a suitable photo in my stock... I have time this afternoon to look a little more, maybe I will update.

[harryhood]

The one thing that caught my eye right away was depth of field, or lack there of. Everything in the foreground is as sharp as the background, and midground for that matter. It looks like you might have blurred the perimeter of the image?

 

Also, not exactly sure what that object is standing on your slab in the corner near the bottom of the image, but it looks like it was added in post (it doesn't cast a shadow).

 

I like where you're going with the building materials but IMO they need to be varied a little more. While there aren't any obvious seams, it does appear repetative.

 

I like the sky, and great job with the plants. Something looks off with the grass though. It almost looks like its unevenly cut. It also appears to be repetative with the dark/light patches.

 

Keep up the good work.

[Jonathan Sanchez]

Very nice dude... especially the grass. Only thing i see kinda off is that white post looking thing by the pool porch (looks fake)... as well as the large floating thing on the pool.. makes pool water look very dirty.

Can I ask you how long the render took with all this foliage?

[neko]

nice work james.

 

you're struggling to leave autocad modeling probably because you had such a rigorous and thorough education on the concept.

 

the bollard in the foreground by the pool has no shadow...lose it.

 

otherwise excellent work.

[jinsley]

Very nice dude... especially the grass. Only thing i see kinda off is that white post looking thing by the pool porch (looks fake)... as well as the large floating thing on the pool.. makes pool water look very dirty.

Can I ask you how long the render took with all this foliage?

 

Geez. I didn't even notice that the light post wasn't casting a shadow. Funny though, it looks like it is casting one on itself??? Will check that... lillies on the water were done in post. I thought the pool looked too clean so I added them, maybe I will re-think that or re-render this when I find time.

 

Render time was about 6 hours, after calculating the Fg map at 1/3 the final resolution of 3000 px wide.

 

nice work james.

 

you're struggling to leave autocad modeling probably because you had such a rigorous and thorough education on the concept.

 

the bollard in the foreground by the pool has no shadow...lose it.

 

otherwise excellent work.

 

Haha... no, I still love modelling in CAD. This was just for practice, in the workplace where no one else uses Max, CAD is still the best option for me... I don't know if the education was that rigorous, it wasn't really hard work, because I really enjoyed it, and still do... but it was very thorough and complete. At least as much as you can fit into 6 week course...

 

I miss those days, go to school, hang out and do something you enjoy... go to the pub after.

 

Seems to be the consensus that the bollard is voted of the island... so I will remove it next time around.

[Greg Law]

I really like what you are going for here. The bollard likes like one of those things the client added when the Architects' back was turned.

I think ground level lighting shining from the garden across the pond would be more in keeping with the rest of it. Using a hidden fitting set between the shrubs.