my first professional work "Residential building" - gfx elite forums

ziko0 · #1 (**permalink**) February 11, 2009, 13:34

this is my first professional work , ie: "for money" but i did other stuff just for fun , so all feedback and critics bad or good are welcomed just hit me =] ,and any tips to make my work better , thx

about the project :
i used 3dmax and vray
gi with irridiance map and light cache and used an 0cclusion pass

By ziko0

ziko0 · #2 (**permalink**) February 13, 2009, 12:40

plz some one tell me how to improve the materials and the glass and how to make this scene look more realistic thx

DrNoXx · #3 (**permalink**) February 20, 2009, 01:56

ok... I might give you some tips... see, the material is too new... too fresh... you have to give it a slightly "used" touch at least or it will always be a sterile model.

to add some displacement is a good method to get rid of the straight lines which tell anyone that knows about the 3d modelling that this is a model even you age the surface (even new colors show differences, the day, the mood of the painter... the unlucky moment when something happened and you will have some failure in the texture... stuff like that...

most of the nature stuff is pretty good for use but get rid of the ones that seem to make the image somehow unbelievable if you get me right...

then... have you ever seen such an exact shadow under a car? or that the car yould reflect the surface of the house this way in rl?

bringin some colour... some variations... you can not paint a house all the same color - it will always look like a play-train model coloured with plastic paint...

k, for the glass effects you could go for "simian arch materials"... pretty old but good for beginners as it has a few adjustments you can make to the glass effects... works with vray only I think. otherwise there is the possibility to use thin wall refraction and make the effect yourself... (you can find that in the max manual if I am right...)

the person is dead... just a dummy... not in the scene... there is no life on the balconys... no towel... nothing inside of the rooms... it is dead... you have to copy life itself if you want to convince with such a rendering... this is art, not only creating but copying like van gogh showed us his way of seeing life or others... depends on your own taste and style... but see, such a big house for many people that has only one person showing up and that in a pose you just don't believe him...

maybe it is a good thing to tell you to make up a szenario in your mind... the children you hear are playing and leave a toy there... the dog, cat or whatever... a bird... can you imagine such a place without ONE bird? think of real life when you lok at it... imagine what will happen... maybe a plane fly by in far distance... maybe a bee somewhere... a bird or even a few... then see, on a cloudy day like this sun can NOT come straight to the object like this... you forgot to filter your light trough the environment or at least make some effects that seem to be shadows trown from the clouds... the sidewalk is as if it was bought today... no dirt - can you see such in real life? fresh colored borders... hard to tell if you have no idea... well at least this might have helped a little.

ziko0 · #4 (**permalink**) February 28, 2009, 17:03

thx DrNoXx f0r ur tips , they r g0na help me much later 0n
but thts a presentati0n 0f an architectural pr0ject s0 it w0nt be nice t0 make the building l00k 0ld and tht stuff and als0 it was the client wh0 ch0se t0 make the building all same c0l0r , and ab0ut the glass it was meant t0 be a reflective glass but i d0n0 why it d0esnt wana reflect the sky 0r anything ,

but anyways thanks f0r ur tips much appreciated , and im g0na try them 0n the render again =]