Critique my rendering

[Anonymous]

I would like some constructive criticism on this rendering I produced with lightworks. I modelled this scene very quickly just to play around with lightworks (I have nothing better to do in my holiday). Any advice on how to make it better would be appreciated.
I feel like I'm starting to get better using lightworks, although its proving to be a pretty hard lion to tame. Perhaps when I get a job, I'll be able to buy Dwights book - but until then, all I have is the forum.

[Anonymous]

I live in LA

[Dwight]

Oh. You missed me in November.

I will return in the spring, but Los Angeles is the least defined right now of all the upcoming seminars.

[Anonymous]

Actually, I was tried to go to class last Dec., but at that time I haven't got enough money to attend the lightworks class. I was wondering if seminars is as the same as lightworks class. Ant that's why later on I decide to buy your book to learn lightworks.

[Dwight]

Good for you.

The "class" or the "seminar" or the "Day of juggling flaming chainsaws with Dwight" concepts are all the same: Eight hours of mind-bending LightWorks training combined with several Photoshop techniques to put ArchiCAD users at the forefront of what their software can do for quick illustrations.

The day is divided into four parts, like the book on which it is based:
1: Rendering: all the features of the new rendering engine.
2: Surfaces: material behavior relative to light, alpha channel masking, the archives - what they mean. Building a surface with shaders and textures.
3: Lighting: lighting development and scene lighting. Settings for illustrations: interior and exterior.
4:Tricks: Context insertions, Photoshop texturing and "PhotoDream" comcepts comgining sketchy textures and photoreal rendering.

This course has been a big success wherever it has been offered. I am just back from a dip into the Excited States and a month in New Zealand.

Upcooming Seminars include: Vancouver, Calgary, Austin, Dallas, Houston, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, Detroit and Cincinnatti. Call your reseller for details. Or call your reseller in other cities and ask for the seminar to come.

Later in the spring, I have Australia and Scandinavia in mind. Definitely the Netherlands.....

BTW: if you are in Australia, please e-mail me directly to see about doing a seminar in your city.

[Anonymous]

I am glad book and class are the same. This way I won't feel so bad for myself about missing the class. I'll read more and ask questions later. :wink:

[Dwight]

The course does go into more depth on the flummery agitator object and does correct the error in the book where certain settings make your computer smoke.

That would be the refractive glass issue.