Thought I would start an extra thread for the rest of the work
http://www.arcadbeta.co.nz:8080/upload/forumstuff/Wood-Man.mpg
http://www.arcadbeta.co.nz:8080/upload/forumstuff/Wood-Man-Rugby.mpg
http://www.arcadbeta.co.nz:8080/upload/forumstuff/Wood-Man-Toon.mpg
Very impressing
Did you use ppt ?
Tom
the pool areas are great!
how did you get this watereffect?
could you share your material, please.
best regards
themaxxer
nice images!
what kind of plants did you use?
regards
S.Wolf
Oh yes, I like the night view very much!
The gradient sky behind W1.jpg is nice! from W2 until W6 is the top a bit too saturated for my taste.
The water in the last image is great, maybe the shoreline/grass/path is a bit too harsh.
Great images. I like exteriors more. I tend to like more your images with not so dramatic camera perspetives. There is already enought drama with your lighting aproach. Adding to that more drama with camera somehow makes it a bit artificial. But that’s, obviously, just the way I see it. Hard shadows realy emphesize the hot sunny “scorcher” day. Great water on the last image too!
Keep up the good work
Zoran
Congratulations, the last one is very good, the rest incl. those in the 1 thread are also good. 8)
For the images shown in this thread, lighting quality is not enough in my opinion - most of them lack subtle details in dark and bright areas. So the images appear a bit hard and dry, or a bit dull to me. I admit that I favour those images which have wide dynamic ranges. I realize that probably time pressure is the major cause - an evidence is, in some some exterior renderings background has obvious white borders or the edge is too hard. 
Thanks for all the comments guys.
Stephen_ma-trees are onyx. Most of these images are grabbed from animations so all of the larger trees move with the breeze.
Keep the comments coming!
besides the lack of samples on the car’s motion blur, it’s all superb!!!
Cheers
Stunning!!! I love them all! Well done.
How do you find Onyx? Does it work well with Vray, meaning render times? I am thinking of getting Onyx.
Wonderful compositing too! Love the night shot!
nice images!
i was just wondering if you render the oynx plants out as a seperate pass with standard materials or just load them and render as-is in vray?
We tend to render the onyx trees in the scene. On jobs with quick turn around times it is easier to render 1 pass
That is just great…really really like it.
Would be good if th elighting levels were more even and less saturation in areas but otherwise a great render.
Well done
Nice work dude, that last one looks familiar.
Me thinks your getting v. good at landscaping.
nice one Nik,
Yeah, the landscaping has come a long way!
So have the computers we are working on
so far in only a year. you turfed those old black fridges then?
still got a couple of the fridges, some have been upgraded to dual opterons
and a quieter fan?
i hate landscaping.
we tend to re-texture with vray mats in max. They are very heavy though in a scene - they usually get some optimisation (multi res is good for this) and they do take a while to render. If you are at ground level a lot you can mix them up with dirty ol rpc for good measure.
I noticed that some of the images are quite grainy - i think this is a compression issue - especially on that car!
thanks for the comments
-peter
sorry, the water… it is actually a really simple material - it is what you do beneath the water that makes the difference. Most of the control as to the look of the image happens there.