That bothers me also in some images.
But this are clients demmands.
Once they knew that a little more can be seen, they ask for it.Even if the floor shows more distortion than I consider acceptable.
Those are the ones that I don’t show or use for my portfolio unless I render them again with the correct camera. It is a shame that your clients can’t see how it spoils otherwise fantastic work.
Top quality work. Most of our clients demand wide angle interiors too (80-90 degree spans), so we generally keep to no less than a 2.0 aspect ratio to avoid such noticable distortions. I’d say your second image could have been cropped in this way, but if I’d made a buffed marble floor material that nice I don’t think I would have been able to do it.
Same image -- I find myself staring at the two girls’ asses on the left, shortly before I get pissed off realizing that they likely bought those jeans pre-distressed. Totally emotes the same feelings I have for malls -- well done!
And for the record, I’m only 22, so unless they’re 15, I don’t think there’s anything creepy about oggling the clipart.
i don’t think the clients would really ask for such a wide angle lens, they just want to see more of their room. In normal “traditional” illustration where such distortion occurs the artist would correct the ellipses of the vases in the foreground of the image. Its a case of the artist accepting what the computer does, which doenst usually make the best images.