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Hi Maxwellers!

Here a simple little job I just finished up about 30 minutes ago. I had fun with Maxwell!

Comments are welcome for everything except the repeating bushes!

Jason

Jason,

Looks really good

One comment: The grass on the right of the stepping stones (entrance to porch) looks different from grass on left.

Jason
Really like your roof texture! Maybe add some expansion joints into the concrete driveway and maybe add a texture to it. One other thing that I see is maybe add a reflection in the windows or such… overall great work.

Regards,
Mark

Good job. Are your trees added in post?

Good work. I like the grass. Is it a repeating texture or is the environment a complete frontal projection texture?

My hint: the background shadows are much darker as the shadows of the house. For me, background and house lighting dosn't match. I would try to make the house darker in photoshop.

... and the way in the foreground is to clean and perfect.

:: Bravo... loks great... but make some of the changes already suggested::

Nice. Unlike most maxwell exteriors ive seen, the grass in this one actually looks pretty good. Did you paint it in?

This is great! one of the better house-renderings i've seen on here.
Good job on this one Jason!

/ Max

Hi guys. Thanks for the great feedback! I appreciate the comments.

I did not see that the grass changed height to the right of the steps. Really good eye abgrafx3d! Thanks. That's not a road in front, but a half-circle driveway, and yes, it would look better with a texture or expansion joints. There's actually a texture there, but it's too washed out. I could have spent more time on it. The roof texture was done with the tiles procedural in MAX and rendered to texture. I added some dirt to the roof in Photoshop with the burn tool just to give it some randomness (is that word?). The trees and grass were added in Photoshop. I used an eye-level photograph of a grassy area and cloned it in. I created a nice mask to make the cloning easier; I turned off the ground plane in MAX and rendered an alpha channel. This made adding the grass as simple as a large brush swipe. The only bad thing is that this method made my driveway look as if it were "above" the grass. I'll have to rethink it a bit. See the original image (below) - notice that the driveway rests below the grass surface - as if the grass were sodded.

Thanks again for the comments!

Jason