!Restored: Critiques Wanted Please!

[Anonymous]

This is the courtyard entering a dentist office I have just finished. Let me know what I can do to make it better. I used Artlantis 2.0, and a couple of touchups in Lightroom.

Justin

[Anonymous]

My first attempt a few weeks ago - minus 4 hours (export AC + render Artlantis 1,5m x 1,5m 300 dpi + Photoshop).
I was hoping to find a good tutorial before summer holiday but I'll have to wait for Dwight finishing his beers...

[Anonymous]

This is my take on exterior lighting of the courtyard. I am not convinced, though it will do for now.

Dwight,

Is night time lighting going to be in your book?

Justin

[Dwight]

Yes. But I will only show neighborhoods where it is safe to go at night.

[Anonymous]

Great rendering but a little spooky in my opinion. Have you considered a bit more lighting inside to keep the home fires burning? There is nothing like internal lighting to warm up a night scene. Maybe some low intensity window lights shining out?

HTH,

[Anonymous]

What do you guys advise to improve realism except of the kitchen that still needs some refinements?
Render total time : 23 min.

[Dwight]

• sky image not plausible given sun angle
• chair backs in foreground repel the viewer - closer or higher camera
• image has no subject - adjust composition to capture the eye.
• collision of plant leaves with seat cushion at left is hard to understand and detracts from impact.
• too much ceiling - in reality we rarely look up or even across - inside, we look more downward.

Otherwise:
good exposure

[Karl Ottenstein]

Joeri wrote:
What do you guys advise to improve realism except of the kitchen that still needs some refinements?
Render total time : 23 min.

My first reaction was that the sky was too grainy - image used did not have enough pixels to be used with the rendering settings, and so was probably stretched?

Sky image not particularly believable given the angle and color of the sunlight.

Magazine/book is great! Would some noise help the chairs/sofa shaders?

Some interior fill lights?

Nice.

Karl

[Anonymous]

Just a few small suggesstions.

Play with the textures more. Use more bump and reflection in your textures. The floor appears way too flat. The metal objects in the room hardly reflect.

Just remember what Dwight says, "Think like a photographer".

Justin

[Anonymous]

Thank you all for the accurate responses.

A series of images like this will do for now because client isn't paying for extra time.
I'll take a closer look at shader creation soon because it seems to make a huge difference.
I've tried interior lighting and bump before but I was too enthousiastic so the scenes were overacting... I need some more disciplne

[Karl Ottenstein]

Please see comments about the new Heliodon Sky feature of Artlantis 2 here:
http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?p=122777#122777

Might be useful here, even though reflections are not an issue...

Cheers,
Karl