University Center

[scottwadd]

Hi all,

I'm an architect trying to get better at rendering; would welcome some advice on these images. Thanks!

-Scott

[paolo242]

nice work... but I don't like the people...

[scottwadd]

Yeah I always struggle with entourage. What about them don't you like?

[Pixelcon]

To my eye these are things that are bothering me about the entourage.

Forget about motion blur. They become so attention grabbing. Instead of being something that lets the subject settle in the image, they become the central focus.
Your aerial image lacks contrast. If you had much darker shadows, you could really enhance the image with entourage that throw nice lengthy shadows. I know architects are usually afriad of shadow but a washed out image just lacks oomph. The dude on the left in the red is attention grabbing in the wrong way as is the truck. if you put a bit of activity in the gym area, it'll help draw the eye to the building. This could also work well if you have some people sitting and messing about in the grassed area to the right of frame. These two elements will help lead the eye across the image.

As for the dusk image, as I said get rid of the mo-blur and think about a likely scenario. Do you really need this many people? Again architects like to have people people people but it breaks the believability of an image to have this many people doing irrelevant things. Perhaps clear all the people and start again. An eye catching figure up in the gym will draw the eye, as will a couple of people in the foyer and one really good fitting couple walking into the university. Your two groups of people closest to the entry and the person in white to the left (under the gym) are well lit and are the correct perspective. They work so much better than everyone else. Fewer people that fit better will give the building a much grander presence.

Good work.

[scottwadd]

James - Thanks! I'll try that.

[Morne]

I like the images in general. What bothers me in the 1st image are the 2 blurred people center frame. The moblur doesnt bother, it's actually fine, but their perspective is WAY off. They've been photographed from an elevated angle, but you're sticking them in roughly eye level. Looks way of. Just deleted them or stick in a different couple...

[scottwadd]

Actually those people were photographed straight on but they just have really, really short legs.

Heh. I was wondering if anyone would notice the perspective being off, and now I think if that is ever a question the answer is, yes--fix it!
I need to get my firm to buy more entourage collections. Any recommendations? Epictor?

[Pixelcon]

Epictor are the best in my opinion.

[Nicinus]

I think the dusk one is very good, but as mentioned above some of people catches your attention. The two guys to the utmost right, especially the guy in behind looks really sloppy. I don't think the problem lies so much in the actual figures as in the compositing. I would take them away completely, the rest of them look like typical architecture population so should be fine. There is a weird giant dandelion that also stands out a bit on the right.

Now the second image is much less convincing to me. First off it needs to be color corrected, way too yellow at least on my screen. Then I think you need to integrate the buildings in the background better with a slight z-depth blur or haze. You shouldn't be able to tell where the backdrop starts that easily. Sun is also perhaps a little too strong on the right compared to rest of scene.