comments please

[jdomingo]

just doing some exterior rendering...i still feel not satisfied with them, any comment for me to improved? i know beauty is subjective

[nthused]

Of all the images, I like the bottom one most. The foreground of the render looks finished and the grass is soft.

The only thing that bothers me about the 3rd image is the glass - there doesn't seem to be any reflection. Use an environment map to give the glass something to reflect or use a quarter sphere behind the camera mapped with an image containing trees, buildings, and sky (whatever you want reflected) - this would add a lot to the realism of the glass.

Work on your lighting to soften the images. The shadows are all very hard and the light looks very white. Remember that during midday there's a lot of ambient blue light cause by the sky - so your shadows should never be too dark but have a blueish tint to them.

Lighting is one of those things that all of us continue to work on - after a while you really start "looking" at everything around you as a scene - noticing ways to mimic lighting effects in your LW scenes.

Check this article out: http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm

Your modeling is great in all of the renders. Just need some work (as all of us continue to) on textures (tiling) and lighting.

[jdomingo]

allen,

thanks for your views.....the grass was done as clone in photoshop. i cant do it realistically in lightwave. the article on the behaviour of light and how it affect the scene is great. what i learn is, to achieve what kind of mood i want for my scene and from there a lot of tweaking of light to be done...i like it. thanks

[tonsofpcs]

They look great! The modeling is great, the one thing that could use some improvement is texturing (just a little, not too much, its much better than what I usually do), most noticably the tiled look of the shingles in the houses. The grass looks great. The glass looks good in the houses, maybe you could use this texture/color for the glass in the last piece rather than the greenish look it has.

[adrian]

You've got a hell of a repeating texture on the roof of the house in the top pics as well.

The scenes are very good other than that.

Adrian.

[gaushell]

A few things, most already hit on:

1. better grass textures
2. fix repeating roof shingles.
3. soften up the buildings with landscaping next to them. study several good landscaping books, photos, etc.
5. be careful of repeating textures of landscaping too - third image especially.

great start.

[jdomingo]

thanks guys, i appreciate all your comments.........i will not disappoint all of you on my next post (hehehe) thanks.