Hacker's Apartment [WIP]

Synthet

Final images, more on my website. Please could I have some criticism of it, it'll save me starting a new thread.










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Hi everyone.

It has been a long time since I last posted, but I thought I should start a thread to share my progress with a new environment. This one is based of a concept I did a while back.

So far I've only made the main props, some are still a WIP and its still looking too clean and tidy.

What I have so far:

frmdbl

The concept is very good in my opinion.

In terms of the models though (the tv especially), I think you should subscribe to the bevel church.

EDIT: You have some lovely concept art on your artstation.

Har

The computer screens are too green (even for a TN screen), the tv's do look normal though.
The room looks a bit smaller then your concept.

Can't say much more since this is still a WIP, but your concept looks very promising .

Synthet

Thanks guys,

frmdbl - The bevel comment worries me, anything bad enough to scrap?

har - I don't think I will be following the concept too closely but I will try out a different scale. You're right about the monitor I got carried away.

frmdbl

What I meant is just use some more bevels,
a prop like that monitor would read much better
at a distance with more beveled edges,

and I think it would look better.

Synthet

Alright I will keep that in mind, thanks again.

Mr. Darko

Yeah, in graphics you often need to sort of exaggerate the degree of bevel in objects that you'd see in real life. It's technically less realistic, but it ends up making things look more realistic because it reads better. The way light hits beveled objects in your scene makes it clear that they're not just perfectly angled corners, which few things in real life have. And bevels that are too small, even those perhaps more realistically proportioned to the real life reference objects, don't read well enough in realtime graphics for the effect to be noticeable.

It seems counter-intuitive, but it's just the way our brains work. It could also be a technical thing that may be sorted out with higher resolutions, better anti-aliasing solutions, and larger polygon counts in future generations of games, but I'm not sure.

Synthet

Quick update on my small amount of progress.

Also, loving the site redesign!  

Synthet

Hey guys, semi final images posted. 

The lighting has been a pain in the neck, I just cant get it to show the materials off properly due to the placements but at least my concepts will prevent this in future.

If there's anything I can change to improve this folio piece now's the time to mention it. There are a few pieces of hardware like the mouse and police scanner I should do but I feel starting a fresh scene might be more beneficial now I know much more, and some of the older assets is holding it back.

Also cheers for the comments guys, they really helped a lot actually.

Synthet