New York (UDK). Need feedback!
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Hi all! I've been reading Polycount for couple years now and learning from all of you, been a absolute pleasure. Finally I am not ashamed to show my work in here, been a rough couple years haha.
Now I am trying to polish my student work for couple weeks before applying for jobs as I just graduated. Would love to hear c&c and be a part of the community from here on.
Would appreciate any feedback.
One of the projects, based on New York in the 40s. Textures are mostly hand painted but some photo textures (cgtextures.com) were used to get the final detail, in vertex painting and on the posters.
Normals baked from Hi-poly models.
Final Screenshots:
Closer shots:
Texture work:
Would love to hear any feedback, tips, comments, anything really.
Thank you for your time.
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Hi all! I've been reading Polycount for couple years now and learning from all of you, been a absolute pleasure. Finally I am not ashamed to show my work in here, been a rough couple years haha.
Now I am trying to polish my student work for couple weeks before applying for jobs as I just graduated. Would love to hear c&c and be a part of the community from here on.
Would appreciate any feedback.
One of the projects, based on New York in the 40s. Textures are mostly hand painted but some photo textures (cgtextures.com) were used to get the final detail, in vertex painting and on the posters.
Normals baked from Hi-poly models.
Final Screenshots:
Closer shots:
Texture work:
Would love to hear any feedback, tips, comments, anything really.
Thank you for your time.
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Your wear & tear is inconsistent; some pieces are well weathered, while others are pristine.
The sidewalks feel very wide - twice as wide as I'd expect. Were you working from a period photo?
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The lighting feels very harsh, and the white fog isn't helping.
The shadows seem to have some odd artifacts. Most notably, there's a significant gap between the buildings and their shadows in the first image.
Good thing that you mentioned the flag since that would have never crossed my mind! 50 star flag came in the 1960, so you are absolutely right.
With the wear & tear I thought that some would be new and thus pristine (Ford 1940 for example), but you are right. Maybe there is a too much of a contrast between the pristine and weathered objects, I should at least add some dirt etc on them to balance it out.
I was working from photo references and think that they were quite wide at the time (with some exceptions of course).
I was thinking about that and painting my own posters, but did not had time for that for now. Thank you for the tip.
Will definitely try to work on that, thank you for the feedback. If you have any suggestions when it comes to lighting and overall feel, would love to hear
I have set a time limit of couple weeks to finish this piece and my other one that is almost ready. So will try to keep everything within time frame if I do not spot any major flaws that will take time and need to be fixed.
My main crits would be the red and green color on the building and shop respectively. I think they are a bit too vibrant and it makes a clear contrast betwee them and the rest of the street.
There is something with the car that bugs me, I can't really point my finger on what it is, maybe it's the clean material or thos white window ( Have you tried darker windows ?)
The fog is quite strong ( why that blue color ? ) and we can't see the sky. Maybe having a nice blue sky would help with the overall ambiance. The lightning is a bit pale too. Try imagine a season. If it's summer for exemple, try having a yellowish lightning and with less fog ( don't oversaturate it with yellow either, it needs to be subtil). Right now the lightning is neutral. Where are those shadows coming from at the center of the street? they are not connected to any buildings?
Having some irregularity of height between building might help making the street more interesting, as right now from the screen they all seem to have the same height and every window are allined perfectly at the same height also. Try having some opens with carpets hanging at the window or something like that.
Other than this it definitly have potential to be ace stuff. Keep up the good work.
Will try to balance it a bit, but I agree, some of the colours are a bit too vibrant.
One option would be to play with the post processing and go for something like this:
No I have not, will have a look at it
I totally agree. Seems that I took the first shot from a bit too afar so the importance volume and lut was not properly on (kind of blending). But in anyway I still need to tweak the lighting a lot. The light in the center is coming from the alley that is in between the buildings.
Like DWalker pointed out, I seem to have some weird artifacts in the shadows as well, need to have a look at it as well.
Yeah you cannot really see the differences when taken from street level, so that could be an excellent idea to make the height difference more obvious! Need to add something on some of the windows as well. Just do not want to overdo the scene so need to find a good balance.
Thank you for the kind words, definitely will
*I did change the flag as well although it is hard to see from that angle.