Housing - 5 days work

[ml-a]

This is a housing complex visualisation finished recently. Modeling, texturing and rendering was made in 5 days. Critics and comments welcome!
Cheers

[chris-x//]

Hi,

Here are my comments, the images are lacking a little contrast, maybe some post prob would do the trick. But the trees haves no shadows and some shadows are too dark. The bricks are too "pinky" which in my opinion gives a lack of contrast. I like the design, and the 3rd image is my favourite. The grey brick texture seems too stretched imo.

Overall good work, but i'm not a master and here were my comments.

Regards,
Chris

[jacksc02]

You might want to consider changing the sun direction. At the moment all your images are looking at shadows. Turn your sun around so that your direct sunlight is coming from either the left or right side of your view. By doing this it will add some needed contrast to your images.
You have done really well to crank this job out in 5 days!

keep up the good work
Chris Jackson
cj@arcad.co.nz
www.arcad.co.nz

[dejaVu]

I think the main reason why your image lacks contrast is because you are using Exponential or HSV Color Mapping. For exteriors I prefer to use Linear instead as it retains nice contrast between light and shadows.

Vu

[ml-a]

Thanks for the comments, i appreciate this.

chris-x// you are right about the texturing problems, I was in a rush.
jacksc02: The client wanted to see this sun direction because of the building plot situation
Deja vu: I used linear color mapping.

[ultra]

great stuff Mark, specially for the 5 day limit, i'd agree on the pink, the shadows and the gray stretched map, but overall they look good, congratulations !

[ultra]

just noticed the extreme slope of that street in the 3rd image, try that on a bicycle

[Viscacha]

The grass and ground textures are kind of weak, not enough variation across the whole image. And the usual comment to all people using RCP trees, if you have to use them.....make sure they have shadows and that they look like they meet the ground. Also in some of the images your edges don't look crisp, maybe the images are scaled down or check your Antialiasing settings, I like your stone material
Just my thoughts.......