Lighthouse in a coffee shop - disappointment included

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I was pretty excited about this idea....


I doodled it constantly at by boring office job! Imagining how great it was going to look.
And even at this point:


I was pretty happy and excited!

I made some alterations and decided to render: 


EURRGHHH.

So this took me days to render (not even particularly high quality) because my laptops a bit crap etc.
I'm going to revisit this project because I just think its awful....

But any feedback and advice and comments would be greatly appreciated anyway; I'll add to my to-do list.

I think the main thing is the table and window need to look more like a table and window.... 

I rendered with renderman; going to switch over to vray because I had a lot of trouble with renderman, including artifacts in the final render, also the mesh light never seems to want to render properly.

Any tips to what you would alter?

Brian "Panda" Choi

So the idea is that it's a small lighthousue floating on a cloud that's raining above a coffee cup in a diner wheree it's raining outside?

Fluffy_hug_of_death

Brian "Panda" Choi said:

So the idea is that it's a small lighthousue floating on a cloud that's raining above a coffee cup in a diner wheree it's raining outside?

Hi Brian,
Essentially yeah. But its raining coffee

Brian "Panda" Choi

I'd look into how a slow drip animates.  I think it would make the scene feel more appetizing and visceral.

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Brian "Panda" Choi said:

I'd look into how a slow drip animates.  I think it would make the scene feel more appetizing and visceral.

Thank you, I agree, theyre far too fast. I think they might be too dark too - I really appreciate your comments