My first post and project - improvement crits plz

[KiwiMediaPro]

Hello all,

This is my first post here. Glad I can finally post something even though this render is a bit "boring".



Any siggestions on improving it are welcome. Be nice as I am rather new at this...

Thanks guys & gals

[werticus]

why the camera angle?
are they really going to have ONE colour for the whole building?
better trees would be nice.

otherwise pretty good lighting, and nice grass.

[DaForce]

Not bad. I would say your materials need abit of work.
The sky is a bit strange.

And i think the iamge would benefit from a different camera angle. So the store takes up more of the image. Otherwise you will need to fill in the empty space more.

[pixelstudio]

hmm same commenst are the other guys,

Better tree's, check you leave sizes. they are are a bit large.
try different camera setups
add allot more details, such as cars

[KiwiMediaPro]

Thanks all

Thank you for your crits. I was worried about the lighting.....

I will look into all your suggestions and repost a new image soon.

Cheers

[KiwiMediaPro]

Update to my image



I have not been able to find a low res good car yet.

Cheers

[werticus]

improving, i'd lower the camera to eye level.
put signage on the building since its commercial.

the sky is better but thats a lot of smog in the air for new zealand :P

[KiwiMediaPro]

Hey Werticus,

Oh yeah i forgot to reset the camera height as it has been set to look over and past a car i was trying but the car is to high a polygon count and render time went through the roof! from 5 min to 45 min

And actually that is not enough smog if this image was in Christchurch..........:P

As to the signage, well that is why this is so boring as the client has not given me any

To many fires going to keep warm........LOL

Cheers

[Joost Ink]

if you put some materials on the building and maybe something in the store, your rendering will improve a lot.
and I am sure you can find better trees than that, there are plenty free ones to find on the net.

[MoonDoggie]

Oh yeah i forgot to reset the camera height as it has been set to look over and past a car i was trying but the car is to high a polygon count and render time went through the roof! from 5 min to 45 min

I doubt this issue was from poly count alone honestly. I have no problems rendering a 1million poly model with full gi and a default gray material in less than 45 seconds on a dual core e6600.

Try re-adding the car, and assigning it a default gray vraymtl and see how the render time looks. If it renders reasonably, it's the material, check the subdivisions on your reflections and make sure no raytrace materials/maps are used as this often causes vray to crash.

[paulison]

I would expect a job like this to take about 1-2 hours to render with good settings and at a resonable resolution. I think that is partly where you can improve this is to raise settings and resolution. 5 minutes per render will only ever give you a preview quality image i've found on a resonable detailed scene.

For cars and trees and people id be looking at libraries from sugar3d, evermotion and axyz respectively. there are other sources but thats a start!. If you use a lot of the same type of tree, definitely convert it to a vray proxy otherwise you will hit memory problems (especially if you use evermotion plants/trees)

For the building i think you may want to see less carpark, signage detail and at eye level with the camera closer in. If you wanted to add a lot more detail and the camera was close enough id consider lighting an interior scene through the glass.

Anyway hope some of those ideas help!

[sea2stars]

There are also plenty of free tree generators out there to play with. For an example, I still use Arbaro from time to time.