Exterior Renovation

[justinj2525]

Studio/Institution: JAJ Visual
Genre: Commercial Exterior
Software: Sketchup/Maxwell Render
Description:

First post on the forum.

 

Here is an exterior renovation project I am working on. All comments are welcome. Simpl evening exterior with HDRI lighting.

 

Justin

[mfured20]

Hey Justin

 

I am not fluent in the sketchup/maxwell workflow, so I will just give some overall impressions.

 

- Light up the windows. Make it look like something is happening inside. That will help get some color into the image, and a little life.

- The exterior fill light, the blue, is good, but very flat. I would consider trying to localize it, as if the moon was just peaking over the horizon or something, and have just a touch more light coming in from either the right of the left. that will help accentuate the shadows on the model and give it a some depth.

- Make sure that, in whichever windows are dark, you have something across the street behind the camera that can be reflected in them. Just a photo on a plane would be fine, but you need to give this rather austere building a home with some real surroundings.

- Think about things like Streetlights. You don't have to put them in, especially not with a building framed like this, but their lights will probably have some sort of impact on the building, bouncing light off of the sidewalk and up onto the walls.

 

Good luck!