Belfrutta

[jonnybefree]

Hi There,
i'am not realy satisfy'd with it, client changed it nearly dead. but would like to hear your C&C's anyway on it.



http://www.jonas-balzer.de/VRay/Belfrutta.mpg

best regards

Jonas

[hellobard]

Beautiful render, very nicely modelled and textured! Very well made!

But the lens flare kills it for me though! it would have been much nicer as just a shimmering rim light...

[Saulman]

I like the animation. The textures are great and the strawberries look like you could reach in and eat them.
I agree with hellobard about the lens flare. It is a little overkill, but without knowing what the brief was, maybe the client insisted?

Great render though. Works really well against the black.

[jonnybefree]

thanks.
ja the lensflare was one of the big client "killers".
we had another earlyer version with a lot of water splashing around and nice wet floor wich looked pretty nice. all killed by client...

[Phalconheart]

Ah! If only clients would leave it all up to us! I feel and share your frustration.

That said, great job on the mood of your mise-en-scene. I agree that the lense flare just doesn't work here. The movement of the flare implies a movement in the light source when the rest of the scene clearly doesn't seem to reflec this.
Also, in the still image, the lense flare causes a "halo" effect around the forground strawberry drawing your eye to it. This amplifies the depth of field effect making it too noticeable.
I hope I'm making sense?