WIP - Two current projects

[paulison]

These are images from two current projects i'm working on. After thinking my work is improving, I come on this forum and see other people doing much much better stuff than me. Any help or tips much appreciated. I always try and incorprate peoples suggestions in following projects so even if i dont post updates, the advice helps a lot so thanks in advance.

[stephan_MA]

hi!

there are some nice materials in you scene!
The interior is far better than the exterior. it does not match the bg and is a bit too flat and dark. try a better asphalt shader !

the interior looks a bit blurry.

keep up posting the results!

[paulison]

The interior is a bit blurry because following the suggestion of someone I work with, I copied the layer, desaturated, lowered the levels so only the bright areas were showing, used a 4 pixel gausian blur then use screen blending to create a glowing edge kind of effect. This seems to add a bit of contrast to the scene without effecting colours too much

The exterior is something im still struggling with. My first go was actually a lot darker but i've removed the HDRI skylight and am just using a light blue colour with multiplier of 1.5 instead. I realise it looks a bit flat...but not sure what I can do about this. It could be that the camera is too far away from the building to show much of the depth details very well? I agree the background goesnt tie in very well. I should probably go for a less saturated blue color ?

The asphalt has no texture on it at the moment. For the final image I think i'll crop the bottom off which shoud loook better. I need to find good 3d trees for an animation but my first concern is getting the lighting a bit better looking...any suggestions?

Oh, lastly, notice on the left, some of the glass with glass behind is showing as solid grey. Im not too sure why this is happening but I am also confused by the new fog/glass settings.

[tom182]

I think the exterior is not far from being very good. You should change sky image, waaay toooo blue, the ashpalt needs work (use photo, or something with bump/minor displacement.

cheers,
Tom

[deflix]

Really like these render's - for my money the external feels great. All I'd do is crop in and lose the bottom, whilst replacing the lost space with more sky above. .......... just an idea.