Render Disappointment, please help

Hi all,

this is my latest work. I am very unhappy with it’s looks.
Any ideas how it could be improved to look nicer. I am trying to think, but got no idea so far. Any C&C will be appretiated.

Regards
Srdjan

Think in real world terms, and up the level of detail in your model a lot for starters. How have you done the interiors and (what I can only assume is) glass up the side?

Would you be able to post up an original render with no photoshop done?

if you see the people and the flowers, humm… some scale problem here the flowers are too big (like a head).

some definition of whether its day or night would help. if its a night/dusk. take a look at some real photos to get quality of light. need more model detail, as the gangster has mentioned. tiled maps, and glass need sorting.

overall its the lack of direction with light and mood really. looks like a scanline render. hope this helps. p.s there are simple things you could fix in photoshop without re-rendering. like adding teture detail by hand, sorting the sky, some cc in places (well alot).

Hi all,
thank you soooooooo much for the nice crits :smile: :smile: :smile:

cubiclegangster,
original render I will post tomorrow, I did not do any interior, about glass I know, it looks quite bad. I made plane and bend it, applyed background picture, for the reflections. I am doing reserch to see how should I do it, but still no good reference :cry:

priad,
I agree flowers are enormous, I was affraid that they will not be seen from the great distance, but as soon I photoshoped people, you can see immediatly that they are not proportionally done.

unknown,
I am still looking for the good reference. Although it looks like scanline, I rendered in Vray.

Once again thanks to you all, and please keep it comming

:wink:

This rendering is gone to client, but I would like for my sake to do it much better for the future projects.

Regards
Srdjan

i realise it was done in vray, so thats why i mentioned your scanline efect., but it looks like you have lots of non shadow casting lights that are bleaching away the light detail, did u use GI? if your in doubt, post the scene or your settings so we can pick over them and let you know where you can change things.

as for reflections. well they are best done in photoshop, especialyl in the case of tal buildings such as this.

Helooo all,

is there any good free site, where I can upload my model. It is ziped and it is very small 324kb.

Regards
Srdjan

Also move your camera down to normal eye level. That will help it not feel like a scale model as much.

Hello Tim,

Thanks for your input.

I have tryed to do that, the only problem was, if you want to show whole building, as my client wants, and at the same time you want to put camera down, to sort of man height (or woman 8) ) you lose ground and fountaun water surface. To be honest with you, I also prefere that view :smile:

I am trying to found where I can upload my model, and if somebody like to try, you are welcome :smile:

Regards
Srdjan

why dont you try the vray physical sun & camera (see vrayelite.com for a tut)
develope the detail on the windows and wall panels etc.

Tom

www.rapidshare.com plonk it up there if you want.

Hmmm scale problems, lighting problems, detail problems. Still needs a little work dude.
That glass is pretty bright for a night time shot too.

Hello tom182,
Hello DaForce,

Thank you guys for comments!

Sorry I did not get it how to improve details on walls and windows :cry:

Here is my file: http://rapidshare.com/files/15469886/Srdjan\_Hotel.zip.html if you would like to give it a try.

Regards
Srdjan

Cool.. got it.. Will have a look tomorrow when I get to work. Going to bed now :smile:

Cool my mate!

Sweet 3D dreams :smile:

Regards
Srdjan

Very curious what your render settings are, will have a look over your model in a bit and post some pointers.

I agree it is looking very flat and the lighting needs a bit of work.

PS this is my first post, nice to finally get on the forum.

Unfortunately I couldn’t open your max file, what version of max are you using?

HI Jonferimonic,

I am using 9.

Regards
Srdjan

Might be worth posting up a wire and screenshots of the settings, I’m still on max8 too.

Hello cubiclegangster,

Finnaly I found little bit of time to upload some settings and images.

I also tried to render with irradiance map setted to high, but with no much improvement.

Any suggestions?

Regards
Srdjan

to start: turn of default lights