A little cottage

[robk]

This is one of our latest pojects for a local cottage designer. It was done by Jeff and Nicolas from our office. Nicolas doing the final render setup. We are 3 strong now with Nicolas (Nj3design) joining Jeff (Jeffnet)and myself (Robk) at Liquid Light 3D Graphics in early February.
Crits and comments welcome as usual.
Rendered with Fprime.

[robk]

106 views no comments! Just about as effective as our last direct marketing campaign. I guess it's time to start posting shiny spheres in a checkerboard room.
I will try to post something better next time.

Yeah I got one reply!!! oops I guess it was mine:D

[Haven1000]

Nice composition, I like the foreground, sets the scene nicely.

The only thing which stands out to me is the paint surfaces on the building, they are very flat and seem unfinished, some diffuse variation, bump and reflection would go a long way to merge it into the image.

(107 times lucky:D )

Stuart

[petebeat]

Ok, the composition is good, the lightning straightforward and the design of the cottage is nice. I would like to have a place like that. And I agree with Haven on the painted surfaces. A little to clean compared to the roof etc. But otherwise, the stones/rocks in the foreground looks polished and smooth, that is what disturbes me. It stands out from the rest of the otherwise nice picture. Maybe bumps would be sufficient, or maybe a little negative smoothing.

[robk]

Thanks for the comments. Sometimes you get too close to a project and can't see the forest for the trees. I agree the building looks a little flat compared to the shingles and we will try to rough up the rocks.
Again thanks for the contructive crits

[robk]

Here is one that might be more interesting.

[kopperdrake]

Hey Rob :) For the first image I'd say get some XFrog trees - billboards always seem a bit flat to me! Lucky you getting a waterfront image to do - I'd love to have a crack at something like that :D

[BigHache]

The indoor gym image is pretty good. How was is presented? Printed, and if so what size? Or screen?

Many times when I'm done with a rendering and have done any needed edits in post, I'll go over the whole thing with just a smidge of noise filter and then maybe SLIGHTLY gaussian blur. The noise helps give a film grain-ish look and the gaussian not only takes the edge off the noise but on the image helping to look just a little less digital.

[robk]

The indoor gym image is pretty good. How was is presented? Printed, and if so what size? Or screen?

I did it for an Architect in a different city so I don't know how they printed it. It was presented to the city council and school boards for review, since it is between a public and Catholic school. It has some large indoor pools to the right of the picture the render is just of a really long lobby for the pools