AMSTERDAM CANAL

[tomasi]

Hi guys,

during my spare time, I want to recreate the Amsterdam mood and cliche : water, barge, trees, typical houses and lot of bikes.
All you see is 3D objects (from AXYZ, renderpeople, 3Dsky and myself). PS was used only for the tones and the style of the image.

Comments are welcome.
Hope you like it!

[Designerman77]

Cool !

the lighting looks a bit "flat" to me. (not criticizing in a bad way... just a suggestion :) )
Maybe a bit more contrast in the lows / shadows would already be enough.
I guess you used the "on-board" Corona sky and sun?
Me personally in 99 % of scenes, I use HDRs, since they give a much more natural lighting, due to color variations... like in real nature.

That slim house from sand stone is simply marvelous, dude!

Definitely a great scene, which deserves being taken to perfection. :)

What is "perfect"? In my opinion... what looks natural.

Cheers.

[tomasi]

thx designermann for your cool comment.

I  use an only HDR for the lightning. Your feeling "flat"about the image is maybe due to the LUT used . And I don't really like using the "shapperning and bluring" inside the Frame Buffer...neither the denoising.

cheers

[Nejc Kilar]

I really like what you got going here, the amount of stuff going on in the image is really nice!

I would probably agree with Designerman77, the lighting does seem a bit flat. Maybe something a tad more directional would look even more interesting. I'm not sure if its the LUT or the materials not being reflective / too color saturated but the image seems a tad too contrasty in certain areas - Some are ok but some just feel to CGI. I do like contrasty work though :)

If you feel like redoing it I'd probably spend just a bit more time with the materials to get them a bit more detailed.

All that said, I like the image as it is. You've put a lot of work into it and I think it shows :)