Hillside Manor Mansion

[glorybound]

What a bear of a project. All hand drawings! These churned away in V-Ray for an hour, per image, so you'll see some noise. They are not as crisp as some images, but really; let's call it charm . I have received no client comments yet, and when done, I'll use Chaos Cloud for finals. I did the back lawn mower strips using Forest Pack Pro. The client chose the views, but I think I'll pull some more when I have time. These were so hard to do, with only hand drawn plans, and a loose landscape plan, I'll only take high praises . At least until I sleep for a week to recover.

[fixeighted]

Rubbish! Like cgi from the 1970s!

[fixeighted]

But seriously, these are excellent....really natural, realistic lighting, fantastic details in the textures, lovely variety in the greenery, great framing, perfect props.
I could offer other adjectives but I consider your demand for high praise to have been met

Special mentions go to the road treatment, the wonderful shadowing on the final view and the awesome black flamingo.

The single thing I would point to and suggest altering is the rather too bright wall ivy and the fact that it tiles a little. PS to the rescue for that tiny thing

[beenidp]

These are really looking good - some of the best work you've done !

As fixeighted mentioned, maybe just a small tweak to the ivy on the wall in the second image & also darken the very light green planting on the third image.

Looks like a great project to work on ..........Well done !

[AEBI_VINCENT]

Crystal clear, very bright, very clean. As usual, very impressive, I admire your streamlined work.
Just out of curiosity, what size is your Vray Sun? Because I noticed your direct shadows are extremely sharp. I "prevent" that by setting the size of the sun to 2.0. I say prevent because I don't like the very sharp edges a 1.0 sun gives.

[glorybound]

I did notice that the sun is super sharp and I am not sure why. I will look into that. The ivy is going, it didn't work out. Thank you everyone for the kind comments.

[glorybound]

A couple more for fun. There is so much in this scene I can pull views all day. Now, I am really craving for a more powerful PC, so I can render these out higher-resolution and faster. She only paid for four views, so maybe I can sell her on more.

[AEBI_VINCENT]

Last one is my new favorite because of the camera positioning.

[glorybound]

Some updates

[dayna_beaver]

Really nice images!

The only thing I would say, which is very minor, but the window headers would just be a brick...! Always great work.
What resolution are you rendering out at? Always so crisp

[glorybound]

Thank you! 4K and it took about an hour per view.

[AEBI_VINCENT]

I'd say that water shader on the swimming pool needs some love, since it's so close to the camera. It looks like a T-1000 in disguise. Other than that, these renders are amazing, as usual. Crystal clear and sharp, I love it.

[glorybound]

There are some updates. This was a tough project. The client was nice, but kept changing things. When I quoted the price, he asked for a discount. I said no, with no kind of CAD drawings, this will be very complicated and I am only taking it because it looks cool.

I have a theory that if someone complains about cost, they'll be more difficult to please. Usually I pass on projects when the person's primary concern is cost. I say this because the pool wasn't on any sketches and he made it up as we went, which I don't allow without charging. At this phase in the project (DONE!) I just wanted to get it over.

[Luma3d]

How long did take to complete?

[glorybound]

About a week