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$imon:
Hey lynn, that looks a lot better already! I personally would rotate the light backwards a bit farther even, so that the left side really is all in the shadow, which would give a good contrast to the scene, with the fountain as the center piece.
As for the shadows, in the advanced light parameters you can put the 'size' to 10 and it will give a slight area light effect (watch out to put the samples a bit lower, like 3,4 or youll get longer render times)
floyd86:
--- Quote from: $imon on January 21, 2009, 04:21:23 pm ---Hey lynn, that looks a lot better already! I personally would rotate the light backwards a bit farther even, so that the left side really is all in the shadow, which would give a good contrast to the scene, with the fountain as the center piece.
As for the shadows, in the advanced light parameters you can put the 'size' to 10 and it will give a slight area light effect (watch out to put the samples a bit lower, like 3,4 or youll get longer render times)
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Ye i know everything about those render times ;D
Looking good lynn, very nice. Remember the suggestion about that Ambient map
lynn22:
Thanks again $imon, I've always put Size to 0.5 though I didn't know what it was good for, now I do ;D
I got it down to the last render. I didn't increase the shadows on the house side because too many details were getting lost. There's no point in building a fancy balcony when it then disappears in a "black hole" as did the chair and the paint can.
Steve:
This is getting really good. I like the light and shadows on the left side in the original post. It's a bit too bright, as others have mentioned, and distracts from the fountain. But adding a dim soft directional light that just barely shines on the wall would make it's texture a bit more interesting. It might add visible shadowing from the trestle and balcony though so it might not work.
Just an idea....
lynn22:
Thank you Steve and I agree with you, due to the shadows on the left much detail has been lost. I think I solved this problem with some tweaking in Photoshop.
I would greatly appreciate your opion.
To all; as a bit of background to this picture, I mainly model to make animations but this image is a challenge I set myself to see how far we can push our results compared to the big brand name modelers and renderers and the results obtained with those softwares at a combined cost of GB£ 1,000+.
I guess it's fair to say that you don't need a brand name to make a good picture.
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