Comments before it goes out the door?

[heni30]

Hi, I just wanted to get generic comments from y'all before this gets final tweaking and heads out the door (emailed actually).

 

General mood, feel, lighting, people, etc. This would be mostly for the interior.

 

Appreciate it!

 

thanks,

 

George

[sergiocaparelli]

looks nice! i like how you integrated the people into the render. The only critic i have is that precisely the shadows of the characters in the middle of the shot (the lucky guy getting a massage) are too weak, so at first sight it looks like they are floating.

[John Dollus]

not sure how much time you have so here are a few quick suggestions which can be accomplished without re-rendering:

1. vampire people. add reflections to the people that don't have them (majority)

2. stock the shelves (don't forget the reflections of those as well)

3. the scale of the people seems to vary - use height sticks in max to get the scale correct and biped figures for the sitting ones as guides.

4. remove the lady with the bright blue shirt in the background

5. the overall configuration of the space is difficult to discern due to the even shading. Introducing depth by applying different values to the wall surfaces as they get further away from the viewer will help that somewhat and is quick to do in post. It would help define the space.

 

all of that can be accomplished very quickly in post.

Edited July 20, 2012 by John Dollus

[heni30]

Thanks! Just the specific kind of comments I need. (so you're dollus from dallas?)

Edited July 20, 2012 by heni30

[heni30]

not sure how much time you have so here are a few quick suggestions which can be accomplished without re-rendering:

1. vampire people. add reflections to the people that don't have them (majority)

2. stock the shelves (don't forget the reflections of those as well)

3. the scale of the people seems to vary - use height sticks in max to get the scale correct and biped figures for the sitting ones as guides.

4. remove the lady with the bright blue shirt in the background

5. the overall configuration of the space is difficult to discern due to the even shading. Introducing depth by applying different values to the wall surfaces as they get further away from the viewer will help that somewhat and is quick to do in post. It would help define the space.

 

all of that can be accomplished very quickly in post.

 

Here are the items addressed - just need to stock the shelves. Thanks

[Ernest Burden III]

John pretty well nailed it, those were the things I was going to say.

 

But to go a bit further--in adding variation of value to the walls, try to darken the fore, as the eye is drawn to light and that will bring the viewer into the space. Maybe the walls are already dark enough and you instead lighten them as they go back, then have a somewhat darker (than the neighboring wall) back surface to arrest the movement.

 

I'm not in love with the frosted glass in the back, try blurring it and adding noise in Photoshop, see if you like it better.

 

The couple at the counter are good, but I would try moving the package to the other side of the sales person so she and the customer relate better. That may make it worse, so just try it if it's easy. If not, it's a minor point.

 

And the bare shelves! Product!

[John Dollus]

Looking better. keep at it. On an unrelated note, I dated a gal many years ago named Dalice. Now that I'm in Dallas, I should look her up again and find out if she wants to get married just for the tongue twister effect. We could go to Wash DC for the honeymoon and fly into Dulles.

[heni30]

John - 2 things

 

1. Do you have your company renderings on your website?

2. What kind of color mapping do you use? To me that's the most confusing aspect of Vray.

The fact that you have all these choices and THEN you have all these parameter within each one.

I used plain Exponential for this one and I like it Most people suggest Linear Multiply but Exp seems

to mute things nicely which you can then turn up saturations as needed.

 

Thanks.

[John Dollus]

unfortunately, I don't have anything out there that's recent. Pretty much everything I've done here is for private companies who keep everything confidential. I think there's one office bldg that has been built so perhaps I could display that one.

Most of my personal work is conceptual design so there are pieces and parts but once it gets far enough along to evaluate and build, it rarely goes any further. I'll see what I can dig up.

For color mapping, I use reinhard but leave the burn at 1.0 so it behaves like linear. setting it at 0 behaves like exponential so maybe you could look into that for your workflow. It provides some flexibility in case you need it but i haven't found that i have needed it probably because I prefer to tweak in photoshop.

[Playdo]

Hey George. Looking good. It's nice to see those models in action

[heni30]

Hey Oliver - great work! You need to be marketing your services! (amazing modeler - did the chairs and stools - highly recommend)

 

John - I can just hear the conversation at airport security:

 

First name, ma'am? - Dalice

Last name? - Dollus

And where do you live? - Dallas

Where are you headed? - Dulles

 

Step right this way, ma'm - this won't take but a second - as he presses the red button under the desk and reaches down for his Taser.

Edited August 6, 2013 by heni30

[Playdo]

Thanks a lot George. Always good to hear. Yes, I do need to be marketing more, and I'm open to any advice on how/where to advertise.

[John Dollus]

George, I tried to send you a message but your inbox is full

[eagle_ear]

 

John - I can just hear the conversation at airport security:

 

First name, ma'am? - Dalice

Last name? - Dollus

And where do you live? - Dallas

Where are headed? - Dulles

 

Step right this way, ma'm - this won't take but a second - as he presses the red button under the desk and reaches down for his Taser.

 

...pretty funny...