High-rise renderings

[glorybound]

And you guys thought I only did cheesy American crap homes!

[philip kelly]

Verry good.
I would say the books are too big in the widow, and the brick it too defined and the lighting is almost too yellowish.
But apart from that, very nice.

[glorybound]

What about the color here?

[fixeighted]

The optical illusion of it flaring at the top is a bit intense for my liking. Did you already try it with v shift or a different lens?

EDIT: I see now that the verticals are just fine but wow it does odd things to my eyes. Just to see if there was a difference I made some compensations, which are minor but make the 'distortion' go away.
Optics are strange.

[glorybound]

Yeah, I did notice that. The lines are straight, just an optical illusion.

[Franx]

Regarding the verticals on these high rise renders, I tend to add a little bit of vertical shift to mitigate that annoying optical illusion.
Oh yeah, great render btw...

[glorybound]

IDK, I think it adds to the realism

[trick]

As Franx says: it is never a good idea to use a strict 2-point perspective in skyscrapers, unless your viewpoint is a lot higher. The windows near the top seem to look larger, the upper floors seem too distorted and the top also seems wider. By slightly targetting your camera over the horizon (or changing vertical shift) you push these distortions back. The added benefit is that you may be able to push your lenssize up, which lessens the distortions even more.

A simple way to make a realistic impression is to make a rendering without any perspective correction and then make a rendering with the correction you think is OK. Compare these two renderings and see if you think the building in the last rendering has the same realistic appearance as in the first.

[Luma3d]

Looks good... a bit sharp. Maybe more peeps and some motion blur on the cars that are supposedly moving. As for the camera correct, I always use it. Unless I'm above eye level. Not sure if you're using chromatic abbr, but if you are maybe make it more subtle.

[DanSHP]

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