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Horo

19.04.2024, 12:39

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Afternoon Drive

Afternoon Drive
Description:	Time of day is around noon. The sun is high at 75 degrees in altitude. Direct sunlight provided by a dome of 80 lights positioned very far away. Skylight provided via IBL quality 128. Foliage transparency used for all leafy vegetation except the grass. Viper is imported, houses are downloaded or constructed by me. Victoria 4.2 drives the vehicle. Total Render time around 19 hours. On my single celeron system wthis scene would have taken almost 8 days. I realize this image bears many compositional similarities with the Perfectville scenes. This is a distinct scene and not a further development of the Perfectville. Sadly, upon save the file went corrupt so I do not have the final revisions. The most recent sucessful save stored 95% of the changes so I did not lose very much with this bad save. Lucky me for backing up regularly. Feedback is appreciated. Thanks
Added by:	rashadcarter1
Keywords:	Rashadcarter1, bryce6.1, truespace4.3, DazStudio, psp7
Date:	06.19.2008 17:48
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Downloads:	114
Rating:	4.80 (5 Vote(s))
File size:	673.4 KB

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Horo
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Join Date: 05.26.2004
Comments: 4721

Ah - this incarnation of (not, but almost) Perfect Ville is in the UK, Victoria driving on the left side. In the UK, the left side is the right side and the right side is the wrong side to drive a car. The houses are not very British, though.

This is a noon scene so we have no deep shadows. A photographer would chose another time of day but the paparazzi has to take the shot of the diva when she's there.

An excellent piece of work worth a fiver even though I have two quibbles. (1) our diva has a nice pose but somehow looks a bit wooden. Not your fault. She seems to observe something or somebody instead of looking where she drives and this is dangerous. This is a minor quibble as is (2) the haze. The colour is a bit on the blueside to be real. This is probably the HDRI's doing. I would expect it more colour neutral.

The other things are impeccable. The houses reflected on the car, a lot of work to pose objects that are not directly seen. No shortcuts, but probably the reason for an incomplete save (source > 2 GB, the true source size, not the compressed br6 file). The vegetation is as always very convincing.

06.19.2008 20:02

rashadcarter1
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Join Date: 06.04.2006
Comments: 2610

Thanks Horo. I am glad you observed her lack of attention to where she is driving. I wanted the viewer to actually experience a sense of nervousness and dreaded fear at her manner behind the wheel. I even considered having someone crossing the street a few yards in front of her but the drama was just too much.

I consider this to be in perhaps Miami, Florida, or even Los Angeles. Someplace where there are palm trees, big houses and alot of strong sunlight and fancy cars.

Her wooden nature is a posing issue. I admit that posing is very challenging but I refuse to believe it cannot be done convincingly. It will not be easy to get the poses as realistic as the rest of the image but like all things there are techniques I must learn and apply.

The sky color itself is a bit strong toward the blue. The hdri itself is almost completely greyscale lending no blue at this position as the blue areas are below the horizon currently. I used a white haze color with no tint. My goal was to give the sky a sense of depth and to avoid flatness. A little bit lesss saturation would probably look more natural.

06.19.2008 20:30

Render Man
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Join Date: 11.10.2007
Comments: 358

I just learned a very important lesson make sure you do the rating before you type in your message.

I think this scene is very good and love the viper and the reflection from the car body as well. I was wondering why Victoria was not putting on her makeup using the rear view mirror instead of staring at the postman on the other side of the road. Ha

I voted 5 as this had many nice things in this scene. Good lighting and shadows My one slight complaint is that I would not be able to find any work in this city or town. The roads are clean the windows washed the lawns all mowed and the houses have no need of paint. The trees are pruned. I wonder were Victoria works?

Very nice use of the 80 radials and your foliage looks very real.

06.20.2008 21:47

spektyr
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Join Date: 07.02.2005
Comments: 1010

HEY! What's she doing driving my car?! Get in the passenger seat lady! I'm driving!! LOL ;-)

This is a very clean and if it wasn't for her I'd swear it was a photo! The again it looks a tad too perfect to be real. ;-)

Adventures in Perfectville! lol
5/5

06.22.2008 02:39

Alexandr
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Join Date: 07.31.2008
Comments: 328

I like this picture. It's complex and,as for me, looks photorealistic (except Victoria :-)) Nice work! 5/5

08.05.2008 11:39

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