Another Villa

[pailhead]

I'm still tweaking the colors a bit, i'm trying to match a different rendering but i'm not doing well at it.

The aspect of this image is kinda weird since it has to be printed on a 10' by 3' billboard, so i had to crop it in such a way to include a lot of the backround around the house.

The image you see here has a bit of that background removed.

For some reason i can't shake away the 'disneyland' feeling. Dunno if it's because of the house color, or the greenery.

[Joost Ink]

looks quite good.
the pavement has too much reflection, tone it down a little and/or roughen it up a bit more.
besides that you can do a lot in PS. first apply a S-shape curve color correction and then decrease saturation. hope you don't mind I did some correction, just to see how it came out.

[pailhead]

Now when i look at it, i'd say it lacks some contrast, it is pretty grayish, but you desaturated it a lot, it's pretty washed out.

I'm working on a dell 2407-HC screen which was not calibrated, and my image looks a lot better colorwise than yours. I'll have to take a bit of that gray out though.

[glorybound]

Villa

Something not quite right. You did a great job modeling so don't give up. It has some great potential.

[pailhead]

Something?


*edit*

background perhaps?

[glorybound]

Curve

I put a curve on it. Does it help?

[pailhead]

I think it maybe a screen issue then.

I was concerned about the proportions of the background compared to the house but it seems that it doesn't bother anyone.


Your colors are very similar to Joost Ink's, but look very washed out on my screen. Although the contrast may be a bit nicer. The face of the roof overhang are too bright in your version, they're supposed to have almost the same color as the wooden elements and window frames. I think the difference in my original rendering was present, but it was slight, the more it got edited, more pronounced it got. The same goes for the entrance tiles, they're almost white, while they should shift towards yellow.


But, i have to admit, yours looks much more real than mine. I'll try making something in between.

What do you think?

[glorybound]

Colors

I think you hit the nail on the head! There is a balance between making it look good and make it look correct. Sometimes I think my clients would like images that didn't have color variation. They want the images to match that little paint chip they give me.

Here is an example:

http://www.chaosgroup.com/forums/vbu...t=40840&page=3

The client says the back window wall in the second image is way to yellow. She likes the window wall color in the first and would like to use it in the second as well. They both are exactly the same color. I could, and will, cut a small section of the second image and lay it over the first to show her they are the same. This example shows that if I didn't have a image 1 she would have thought image 2 was wrong.

[pailhead]

I didn't really put too much effort into this one, but a friend pointed out that i've probably mismatched point black on the background and on the house.

By increasing the contrast you pretty much fixed this.

This is a quick edit in that direction. I slightly brightened the background by using shadow/highlight, and i've darkened the house.

I also added a slight hint of noise on the 3d part.

[pailhead]

Tad different roof.



And a tad different entrance (with a tad different overall color).

[glorybound]

Villa

Looking better, but it is missing the photo feel. Are you using v-ray sun/sky/cam?

[paulison]

i think the saturation on the roof tiles were standing out in the earlier versions but now this is fixed, its looking much better.

Is the light colour on the barges/soffit lining/fascia's a standard material? it looks a bit flouro to me and doesnt seem to be receiving shadows properly in places compared to the other materials.

i think the window surrounds and stairs to the entrance may be a touch oversaturated as well.

i think some of the plants look a bit washed out and look like they have standard materials applied or else are 2D cutouts and need a bit more contrast or something.

The stone tiling/ limestone blocks over the entrace look a bit smooth and too bright but its not really clear what this material is. It looks like a flat colour with max tiling. Maybe it needs a bit more texture or else some glossy reflection if it is a smooth tile.

I like the driveway, grass and main stone colour though.

Hard to say what the problem is (other than the design) but i think sometimes images can look like this at a certain distance from the building...i bet it looks much better closer in when you can see more of the subtle material effects more clearly.

Hope all of that doesn't sound too critical because i think you have done a great job overall

[pailhead]

So it's 100% a color issue? Angle, proportions and everything else seems ok?

[zoranm]

To me it's more an issue with colours. They look too saturated (at least on my monitor).

I don't know what materials you're using but you should check you colours and textures gamma.
For example: support rafters to lower roof at the right hand side of image are almost the same colour in shadow as in the sunlit side. Try dropping texture multiplier down .
Give some shine to the metal roof. COnsidering camera and sun position I'd expect quite a bit of reflections going there

Crop looks OK to me and background looks good as well.

Good luck

Pozdrav

Zoran

[paulison]

is that the house that you were working on or is that what you want to do to this house ? :P

Looking back through the thread, glorybound did a quick edit on your image and i think that one looks the best as it tones down the oversaturated areas a lot. My monitor isn't calibrated either though...