Critique about render

[Anonymous]

Hi, so here it's my newest render work, i made it just to practice in my rendering skills in Artlantis, i've tried to make a good scene and well hope u like. Any suggestions, ideas or anything are must welcome

Wuxus

[Anonymous]

This is the second one, i still have to put some details in the scene, like some books, cups of coffe, and maybe some food on the table!

[Anonymous]

Personally, I'm not fond of the 60's theme. Besides that I think the renderings are very nice, well done.

[Dwight]

It took orange until the '70's to make it to Canada.

[Anonymous]

hi again, i've making some night scenes but some problems with the reflections have come. the aluminium parts reflects a lot! it looks to much shiny. Some advices???

Thanks

[Thomas Holm]

Wuxus wrote:
Hi, so here it's my newest render work, i made it just to practice in my rendering skills in Artlantis, i've tried to make a good scene and well hope u like. Any suggestions, ideas or anything are must welcome

Wuxus

About accamera_175.jpg (the first one):

(Edited) I find the modeling nice. But I think you need to tweak lighting and maybe reflection settings.

The red wall looks a bit oversaturated to me. And the ceiling reflection from it looks unrealistic. You could reduce its saturation, its reflection, change the color of the reflection to something darker, or perhaps try reducing radiosity.

There is a mysterious glow from downunder in the sofa and chairs, but the floor is dark? Do you have a non-shadow-casting 'undersun' like you would need in Lightworks/AC? If that's the case, turn it off, and try to rely on Artlantis' Heliodon in the first place, and complemetary 'real' spot- or pointlights only if needed. Experiment with different time/location/custom directions of the Heliodon. Test a setting where a little sun shines into the room.

Remember to set sunlight to something warm, yellow/orange, and skylight to cool, blue, and then experiment with their power. Artlantis tweaks the Heliodon's light color depending on daytime and location, but you often need to exaggerate a little.

And first of all. you should turn on the infinite ground shader (scenes panel), unless you want the impression of a black ocean outside. This will also affect the overall lighting, in a pleasant way.

The above is mostly learned from Dwight. Get his new book!

[Thomas Holm]

PS. Take a look here: http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=147346#147346

[Anonymous]

Hi again, so after a few time of testing with the light and the shaders i came with a improvement that liked me a lot. When i see the first render and this last one definitely wanna keep working with Archicad + Artlantis to get better results. Still have work to do with the night scenes. Hope U like it, Thomas thanks 4 the advices and Dwight thanks 4 the freebie's from Ur Book

Wuxus

[Thomas Holm]

Ahh! Now it looks realistic!

Next thing is to lie a bit and make it more attractive. You'll want to sell the design, won't you?

So it's a bit dark, and the outside is overexposed. You could try a number of things:
- perhaps increase radiosity 😉
- explore Dwight's Heliodon settings a bit more
- make the sunlight warmer
- make the glass transparency darker and warmer
- increase skylight power

Edited:
- I forgot - you can add textures to surfaces, walls, ceiling, floor, furniture etc and turn up their Ambient setting to light them up

I'm just suggesting - you need a little more light on the central sofas - a Photoshop lightening of the central part of the image might also cut it.
But this image is so much better than before!