Rendering Nightscene with ocean + boat ?

[percydaman]

well to each their own. Its just a quote from a movie. Its all subjective.

[simonreeves]

Dead in the water

nice pun

[natty]

Happy new year folks ... ....

evelyn im sure you wouldnt like it if i controlled what you said in the forum .... chill out ..

[evelyn]

Natty,

You are out of line with that comment.

Evelyn

[simonreeves]

eh?

[natty]

looks like im offending you ? would you like to explain

[Syclone1]

I wasn't trying to be an a** in the last statement just a general observation that there is no way to please everyone all the time, and Im actually offended by your sarcastic responce to me Evelyn. This is the last Im talking about this in this thread as I have no intention in getting into a pissing match with anyone in here on this silly and pointless sub topic.

-dave

[natty]

im sorry guy's but if there's anymore reference to this rubbish im going to delete your post . ... lets keep it to the question in hand and try not to get personal please !! ..

[plastic_]

hey,
nice to see other satanists on this board.

[just kidding, hehe]


to answer the original question,
try hdri-only lighting and stay in 16bit mode for post. contrast is very important..it's easy to turn a sunlight scene into a moonlight scene as long as there is enough headroom for adjustments.

here is one testframe of an animation project that died before it was finished.
i don't really have settings to share because it was heavily comped in post and the original layers look totally different (and crappy).

[OmeN]

Thanks for the advice people.


plastic_:
Thanks for posting a nice little render there for me, I'll look into it, what sort of render times am i looking at per frame [pal resolution] - at a pure pure rough guess ?

Actually you've also helped in another way to, since both of my shots are actually same kind of angle you have, so there isnt any need for me to show the sky !

[Syclone1]

Actually come to think of it there is also the "old school" method of using a dark blue filter in post over the entire frame. how they used to fake night scenes for old horror scenes that were shot in the day time.

-dave

[OmeN]

Yeah I've actually got a filter set up for it already - lol

[Trapezium]

Don't forget all of the lights on the boats. These can be an important visual cue that it's night time also. You don't want all of them tinted blue

--Jon

[Syclone1]

hmm forgot about that, good point Jon.

-dave

[OmeN]

haha - yeah something soo simple I would definatly forget !
Many thanks for that reminder !!!