Gold Club Guest House

[glorybound]

Here is one, that I am working on, and thought I would share. The architect wants it to look like watercolor, but it was coming along so nice, i thought I would finish it, my way

[glorybound]

and here is the looser version, the one the architect requested.

[joconnell]

Looks great. What are you using to drive your glows by the way?

[glorybound]

I use the NIK plug-in for PS. This one was the glamour glow filter.

[joconnell]

Ah - it's a bit tarty alright. I'd look into something a tiny bit more subtle - really small amounts! I'd love to see this with the sky dropped a tiny bit more and the interior lights turned on - you'd get some nice lightplay on the grass in front of the house. Also is that fire a good idea by a timber house

[glorybound]

if I have time I'll make it less tarty

Ah - it's a bit tarty alright. I'd look into something a tiny bit more subtle - really small amounts! I'd love to see this with the sky dropped a tiny bit more and the interior lights turned on - you'd get some nice lightplay on the grass in front of the house. Also is that fire a good idea by a timber house

[joconnell]

The look of the filter seems to be something like a blurred version of the image overlaid upon itself using the brighter parts of the image as it's source but it's taking the source from too much of the image so you end up getting glow / diffusion on the boards of the house which diffuses the edges / internal detail of the house itself. I'd be inclined to set it up so the glow is only on the bright parts of the sky and the highlights hitting the window. A lot of compositors find that one glow isn't realistic enough either, so they use three - a hotter one at a very small radius and maybe10% strength, a medium one with a bigger radius (maybe 3-5 times the strong one) with maybe 4 % strength and then a really big one (3x the medium one) at 1-2% opacity - the falloff looks more natural.

[glorybound]

I actually set the layers opacity to 24% so, it is a very strong effect out of the box, otherwise. I'll play with it on the next one.

The look of the filter seems to be something like a blurred version of the image overlaid upon itself using the brighter parts of the image as it's source but it's taking the source from too much of the image so you end up getting glow / diffusion on the boards of the house which diffuses the edges / internal detail of the house itself. I'd be inclined to set it up so the glow is only on the bright parts of the sky and the highlights hitting the window. A lot of compositors find that one glow isn't realistic enough either, so they use three - a hotter one at a very small radius and maybe10% strength, a medium one with a bigger radius (maybe 3-5 times the strong one) with maybe 4 % strength and then a really big one (3x the medium one) at 1-2% opacity - the falloff looks more natural.

[joconnell]

Rob nederhorst did another gnomon video about the vfx shots in a short film called Archetype with a cg robot in it and his approach to a lot of these things is to "feel not see" so you're using things like glows and depth fades to a very small amount - if you can actually see the effect clearly then it's too strong.

[glorybound]

if you can actually see the effect clearly then it's too strong.

Good rule of thumb.

[flino2004]

between both renderings I prefer the watercolor one...the photorealistic one needs work to looks really more photorealistic....the color of the brick is very sutured and I would center more the view and I would add vertical distortion.
Fernando

[glorybound]

add vertical distortion

What do you mean. force the parallax?

[flino2004]

Yes, I do.... Only a bit
The camera is so far a way that it's diffult to see details.... And I would have treeline in front of the house to be reflected by the glass.

Fernando