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Hello,

This image is 90% complete. I am ready to finish it. I need to add more plants and other landscape. I need to add some out door seating. I have used displacement on the slump block site walls to test it. I have not used it on the building yet. This image was created that way so I could see the difference with and without displacement. I think the building looks flat without it.

Any suggestions for improvement are appreciated.

Thanks,

Aaron

My opinion is that the sky doesn't look great. A less colorful daytime sky / lighting might help with the realism.

more work on the grass on the foreground and generally background looks too sharp and out of sync with the rest....

A little bit of blur and desaturation on the bg rocks might help.

The client wants a sunset rendering. That image I have in the background is a place holder. I went out during the day and snapped a pano to give me something to work with in the mean time. I cropped out the blue sky and put in the sunset image and darkened the mountains. The shadows on the mountains are wrong as well. We have a professional photographer going out this Saturday to shoot a high res image at sunset. I would like to try and use the photographers images as an environment light. But I have never attempted that before. I do not know if I have the time to investigate it thoroughly.

Thanks,

Aaron

It looks like the sunlight is coming form the left in your rendering. But the background shows sun coming from the right side...?

Yep. The background is a place holder. I took the photo around 11am. The rendering time is 4:30pm. So, I hope the professional photos will work better.

Here is some more progress. These are very grainy still. I fear these are going to take a long time to render because of all of the plant geometry. The client wants the image at 10800 x 5400. I will use Render Rocket most likely because they let me render on a select amount of servers for long periods of time. I estimated around 40 hours on the ranches 1500+ GHz farm. So I think 80 hours on Render Rocket. I hope my calcultions are wrong.....Crazy!!

It looks very good! Is it near completion?

Hi Brian,

Yea, it is getting very close to sending it out to render. The client is very opinionated about the vegetation. So, it keeps getting tweaked. For this client I building everything from his hand sketches. So there is a lot of flux in the process. I need to make the Saguaros look a little more natural they still look kind of fake. I am thinking about showing the cart path with a little reflection...maybe like it was over-sprayed from the irrigation. Or how photographers will wet a surface before they shoot just to add intrest.

Thanks.

It's getting better and better, congrats! And this is the reason why i see some things you carried with you from the early stages of your project that in my opinion could be improved:
What's a little disturbing of the saguaros and other plants is that in my opinion they are too bright and oversaturated, they look more like fake plastic plants rather than dusty spikey cactuses...i would lower at least 50% both brightness and saturation for the cactuses carters and only then evaluate if it's the case of adding reflections. I believe the corten parts are a little bit too bright and that need some tangent reflection....well actually also those green coated glasses are a strong choice but that's architecture and i can't put a single word on that aspect!
Apart from this it's a nice work, and i will be spiritually with you when you will have your 58 Mpixel (----crazy----) rendering to be completed

cactuses

"cacti"

40 hours on the Ranch? Sounds very excessive.....did you check the render times with and without displacement? Are you using it on both grass and the hills in the background? Perhaps you can use lower precision settings. You can do the grass using instancing instead of displacement. I don't know what it your main application but if it's Maya/Max/C4D/LW you could do some blades of grass and scatter them along a surface pretty easily. It will look better than the displacement grass too.

Bubbaloo wrote:

cactuses

"cacti"

You should know italians are the worst english speakers in the world...and didn't know you americans were more philologically correct than us using the correct latin plural!

philologically

Well, if it makes you feel any better, I don't know what that word means.