Architectural: a modern pond

[Guest]

hi

made this just for fun. a little side project on my own and for myself.
tell me what you think.......

[PATER]

WOW, I LOVE IT!

This is just wonderful! Beautiful Atmosphere and very "different" and simple.
staring @ it for a long time i think it still could have a few improvements...

Imo, the water in the pond is too reflective and not refractive enough.
Maybe some very subtle caustics? But careful... the scene has to stay that simple! Ther are some ugly artifacts in the backwall of the wall. How about switching to direct computation with simple two level AA cranked up to get rid of these and get some subtle, crisp GI shadows @ the same time. This should be possible in your scene.
Last suggestion: Add some little details in there... very little stones (dont know the right word in english) or some small cracks in the tiles.

I think this would bring your rendering from very very good, to absolutely perfect!

congrats anyway!

[Brim]

Wonderful image!! Have you seen the opening credits scene to "Cinema Paradiso"? Your scene reminded me of that. Would you mind sharing your water material with us? I can't get my vray water to look just right and I love what you have done.

[cpnichols]

you can also do amazing things to water by adding just a slight amount of refractive fog to it.

[andrius]

Very nice- are the plants and ocean 3d or 2d?

[bigcahunak]

looks very nice.
dunno if you noticed... but your displacement grass is growing through the sidewalk on the far left... that could be possible of course but not with such a clean scene with a new looking sidewalk. I'd dirty it a little regardless to the 'jumpy' grass. I'd also chamfer the edges a little - it looks somewhat too accurate.
Looking good nevertheless.
Congrats.

[Guest]

hi thnx for the replies....

Pater: i wil try it tonight as i am at work now......

Brim: havn't seen it, the water was the hard part and just one moment i got it. have put 6 ours in the water il mabey share it later on...

cpnichols: it has some refractive fog i believe... il check it up tonight.

andrius: plants are 3d, though i have got them from the internet because i didnt want to put to much time in it. oceaan is 2d

bigcahunak: ggras is goning to change..... about the cracks hmmm i dont know it wil change the whole atmosphere at once... il think about it...

thnx for the replies again.

greets niels

[restoeboemi]

nelis, where did u get the plant? is it free?

[sinner]

i like the water .)

material setings plz


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[Brim]

Nelis - been a while but was wondering if you could enlighten us with your water settings?? The water looks lovely!

[indigooo]

who, really nice, i love the water a lot. One thing between the background and the image that the render is very much defined and less saturated than bg, try to adjust a bit the exposure in photoshop and to add some grain too (filter/texture/grain), because i see that whites are very grey.

saludos

[cocolas]

very nice!!
I agree....the water looks just bit too reflective......

also, I'd like to know about those trees:

are they free and where did you get them??

keep it up.

Paul.

[indigooo]

seem to be onyx tree palms

[cocolas]

what's the site for onyx?

paul.

[indigooo]

www.onyxtree.com