Double story house.

[werticus]

Love some feedback, especially regarding... grading, which is something i think i am having trouble with.




displaced roof tile, and rock wall.

[jophus14]

I think that the interior is way too bright. Maybe adding some window treatment (curtains, blinds, drapes,etc) would help. All of your windows have the same framing. Wouldn't the windows with the bow in them have framing to match? The materials are great and the environment looks good.

[paulison]

nice job on this style of housing (we do a lot of it as well). I know clients are looking for the bright interior look which i think you have done well but maybe its a bit too bright or washed out. When you look at similar photo's though, they do seem to look like this.

I'm no wanting to offer help to the competition too much :P. I think you could crop the image down a bit and get rid of the car (it isnt helping) and then finish the image off with some better foregroud plants and trees framing each side of the house. I'd look at evermotion library 31,41,42 and also one of the newer exterior DVD's which have some nice trees.

nice work though, i like the look of the image overall

[DaForce]

Overall the image isnt too bad.

However these things catch my eye.

The reflection on the side of the car Looks wrong, it seems like a sunset reflection but its on the wrong side of the card to the sun.

The interiors just look plain bad..washed out no contrast and sort of hazy. and they seem rather low quality.. like a bad jpg has be PS'd in. Looks like you have a bump on your glass?

The sky look fairly un-natural to me. especially on the right, but that could just be a styled option.

One more pickyness.. the front door.. the light that is shining thru that.. I would expect it to be more blured out soon.. more of an area light effect. Like its too sharp.

WIth all that said I do quite like it.. some of the nice light you have happening in the corners and under the roof line is really nice.

[Arkitec]

Is the light reflection on the car coming from the lights inside house????

The front door jamb needs to be wider... agree with DaForce on the shadows through the front door.

I think whats difficult to read is the stone wall below.... you kinda start seeing it and its gone.... dont know, maybe you need more foreground?

i think the biggest thing that JUMPS at me is the window sill on the right.... It just looks like its about to drop off... I like the shadowing underneath it though... maybe its the angle.... but the depth is pretty extreme....

And for that matter, why dont you have one on the window above the garage? same material? I say you add one above the garage or take them both out...

the contrast between the sky on the right and the tree makes it seem less photorealistic to me.....

oh - need door hardware on garage or at least an access control to get in from the outside...

I also agree about the window treatments and overall interior light, bump on glass.....

That said, I think everything looks really good....

VERY NICE WORK.

Arkitec

[werticus]

thanks for the comments guys, really constructive feedback I like it

I cant change the house's design, but certainly a lot of the points you've made would improve the image.

and i will be implementing a lot of these changes and post the result here !

[jacksc02]

are you 2 perth boys each others competition?

[giraffe]

hi
I have some little crits.
I think interiors are too bright too.
and plants are repeating. you need some variations.

brick shader looks flat.

[werticus]

I guess we are all in competition really - its a fairly international business. I have clients in Sydney too! :P

Do you free lance or work for a company paulison?

[voltron7]

picky but there really should be "something' under that mortar joint over the garage door. A lintel or plate, because there wouldn't be a mortar joint just clinging to the bottom of that header course. The brick mapping looks good everywhere else though...nice.

[werticus]

Updated!

I gotta say these evermotion tree's and bushes are NICE - no opacity maps, all geometry, so they render ~ 2 million times faster.

still have the door to fix, and the arch frames.

[DaForce]

Looking alot nicer, however inside still looks REALLY odd.

Take the top right window for instance, the right had section of that window look like its zoomed in. Or that glass is only single sided so its giving the fish bowl effect

As you can tell by the light on the ceiling doesnt match up and the picture frame seems to line up with the back top edge of the left hand side of the window... really weird.

Similar in the bottom right window. The first 2 rows of big panes seem to have the same fishbowl affect as they are more zoomed into the room as you can see by the lamp no lining up as with the wall edge.

[werticus]

hrmm yes its wierd that the effect is so strong - i was trying to simulate individual panes of glass that distort light slightly differently.

Of course all houses just use one piece of glass and stick on middle frames these days.

its actually a trick i learnt to make sky scrapers more realistic, you put a different glass map onto each segment of the pane.

[DaForce]

Yeah sounds like a good idea but way way to strong.

[werticus]

client mostly loved it - they just want a non wavy wall and its finished... oh well I guess I should have guessed that.