whaling Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 hello all, I render shop interiors at work, and always need something to cover the area visible from the shop window to the horizon line, for views from various positions in the (proposed) shop. There is hardly ever photos of the site that match the perspectives, and so I usually just do nothing, as in the example. I was wondering how other people deal with this, other than using plants outside the window to cover the view, or implying that the view is from high up and only showing an abstract horizon? [ATTACH]40738[/ATTACH][ATTACH]40739[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Ledgerwood Posted January 10, 2011 Share Posted January 10, 2011 I usually just go out and take a photograph of the actual background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaling Posted January 10, 2011 Author Share Posted January 10, 2011 i didn't mention that the site of the shop is often in a different city to where I work, so a photo is not possible then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 (edited) Why not use Google street map to see what's outside the shops and then model something up from that? *edit* I just had a look and it seems Google haven't mapped Greese yet. What a pain! Edited January 12, 2011 by Craig Ramsay Bad information Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVI Posted January 12, 2011 Share Posted January 12, 2011 It's one of those catch 22's - because the client will know what the correct context should be, so if you put in a generic mall you are going to get moaned at. I thin the best bet would be to put in a few tiles, maybe a very overexposed mall interior so at least there is something there. Follow that up with some bloom and bobs your uncle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaling Posted January 13, 2011 Author Share Posted January 13, 2011 The google maps idea is great! Street View, even better. I will have it in my ideas box for later use. For now I want to try and make a non-specific facade that I can use in any project. Yesterday I went out and photographed a row of shops just up the road from me (I was stopped by the police and questioned because one of the buildings I happened to photograph was a bank... !) I like this idea of the overexposed and bloomed photo as well, so I tried mapping the photos I've taken onto some simple geometry. However there were many cars in the photo so it didn't really work too well. So now I'm trying a kind of vague edge texture on the geometry to give just an impression of shop facades... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BVI Posted January 14, 2011 Share Posted January 14, 2011 The google maps idea is great! Street View, even better. I will have it in my ideas box for later use. For now I want to try and make a non-specific facade that I can use in any project. Yesterday I went out and photographed a row of shops just up the road from me (I was stopped by the police and questioned because one of the buildings I happened to photograph was a bank... !) I like this idea of the overexposed and bloomed photo as well, so I tried mapping the photos I've taken onto some simple geometry. However there were many cars in the photo so it didn't really work too well. So now I'm trying a kind of vague edge texture on the geometry to give just an impression of shop facades... Check out cgtextures.com - they have a large selection of shopfronts sans cars and people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaling Posted January 19, 2011 Author Share Posted January 19, 2011 Check out cgtextures.com - they have a large selection of shopfronts sans cars and people. Up till now I'd only associated CGtextures with bricks, stone, wood etc but now I've downloaded some nice shopfronts :-) So I made an abstract street and also one with the shopfront photos and materials. I should add some signs over the shops, but I think they are OK for a first try, and I'll test them out in the next project I do. Thanks to all for your input. [ATTACH=CONFIG]40916[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]40917[/ATTACH] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Thomas Posted January 19, 2011 Share Posted January 19, 2011 I think both work well, depending on the clients preference. Nice and generic and don't take focus away from the interior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whaling Posted January 20, 2011 Author Share Posted January 20, 2011 thanks Stephen :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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