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falloffalot:
That darker pic gives convincing depth through the window. Are the trees in the window a flat image like the fire and the Christmas tree?

lynn22:
falloffalot, my apologies, I was not ignoring your question, I just did not post a reply immediately and then got caught up in other things   :-[

The trees are a flat image like the fire and the Xmas tree. After all, all we do is try to create an illusion for the viewer and how we did it is to them mostly neither here nor there.

However, it takes the strain off my old workhorse PC when rendering.  ;)

ENSONIQ5:
That image outside the window does work very well, appearing moonlit and really, really cold, which makes the room itself that much more inviting!  I also use flat photographic images whenever I think I can get away with it, although with animation it can be harder to hide the two-dimensionality than with single renders.

This is really nice work, great use of textures.  My feeling is that the fire could illuminate the room a little more, gently spreading a warm glow across the floor and the seat in the corner, but it is a minor thing.  The only other thing that I could make a suggestion on is the illuminated side table and light cone around it, which makes me think there should be a lamp on it, from which the light comes.  Excellent work though, I like it a lot.

Mactetra:
you should set the specular on the Christmas tree to 0. Because the reflection is in the transparent places as well.. You used transmap right?

lynn22:
Thank you ENSONIQ5 and a lamp it is !  You are right, the light needs to come from somewhere.

Mactetra, the specular on the tree is 0. Just keep in mind that the final viewers of the animation willl only see the tree and a few other things sort of from the corner of their eye because their attention is on what's moving. Viewers don't analyse single frames as we tend to do.

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