House in the Woods

[glorybound]

Here is my current project. Like usual... any comments would be great!

[joconnell]

This is looking great. You know what'd be a perfect lighting reference for it, and something I always thought I'd have a crack at? Tony soprano's house from the sopranos - the materials and setting are very similar. Like this one a lot.

[glorybound]

I always enjoy posting here, but I never really know what to expect. I thought you guys would say it was way to dark, dirty, and scary. Anyway, I am glad you like it. I'll Google the Sopranos.

[andybot_cg]

way to dark, dirty, and scary.

I would suggest getting some warm light emanating from inside the house to contrast the dusk outside.

[rivoli]

I thought you guys would say it was way to dark, dirty, and scary.

I for one find it a bit of everything you said..
I'd probably try to grade it towards blue, and as suggested above would try a much brighter and warmer interior. that should give it a nice, vivid contrast. the image as it is a very good starting point though, and I can imagine getting even better with some minor work on the colour tones.

[glorybound]

something like this?

[snivlem]

I think that is still slightly underexposed. Here's a quick paintover. I think something more warm as well.



BTW, what program do you use to model your houses, they are always very nice and high quality.

[pailhead]

What trees are these, they look insane!

[joconnell]

Maybe a bit much on the wall but I agree on the windows. If you're shooting a house outside at night, there's so little light outside with the sun down by comparison to the brightness of the rooms inside the windows, the inside of the house is almost slightly burnt out. I can't remember what it was in, but I read a comment about an animator working for disney back in the cel animation days, and he was always afraid to push his movements too far. His supervisor liked the stuff he did a lot, but it was never extreme enough. The supervisor eventually told his animator, push it so far you think it'll annoy me, then it's probably enough!

What snivlem's done there makes a big difference to me - your version is quite pastel, chalky and "dreamy" looking. Snivlem's version has a higher contrast ratio which I feel is more realistic. It's a great sign that he only needed to do a bit of photoshop balancing on the image though, it was all there form the start.

[snivlem]

If i'm not mistaken, I think they are from here:

http://www.3dmentor.ru/shop.html
HQ Plants 2

[glorybound]

I used iTrees. I have all their trees, bushes, flowers, and cars (except for the snow trees).

[glorybound]

I like it! What exactly did you do?

I think that is still slightly underexposed. Here's a quick paintover. I think something more warm as well.

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BTW, what program do you use to model your houses, they are always very nice and high quality.

[glorybound]

They are modeled in Revit

I think that is still slightly underexposed. Here's a quick paintover. I think something more warm as well.

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BTW, what program do you use to model your houses, they are always very nice and high quality.

[snivlem]

Revit, thanks!

I like it! What exactly did you do?

I use Lightroom to colour correct instead of photoshop (photoshop is still useful to comp and fix mistakes , but I just find it a billion times faster/better than photoshop or magic bullets look for colour correction.

I can't exactly recall on your image, but I just increased exposure by a stop. Added two gradient ramps to darken the grass and sky. Changed white balance to bluer colour, added a hand paint yellow bursh to control the lights inside to a warmer colour then about 20% clarity. It takes about a minute to post correct in Lightroom.

Like PG's workflow pretty much:
http://www.peterguthrie.net/blog/201...st-production/

[flino2004]

The correction of the vertical distortion(parallax) is too strong in my opinion and I would take the only dark stone out of the texture. it makes the pattern of the texture very obvious..... I like the detail of the model and the view as well but I have to agree regarding the darkness of the rendering.