Treehouse WIP

dbsboy

Thanks for any comments and critiques.




Reference/Concept


*Update*

se7ered

looks pretty nice..not sure about the color of the wood...and the wood along the steps looks a blobby

Andreas

Looks great, but whats up with the wood at the side of the stairs? Way too heavy. I say get rid of it and keep the lamposts, it should still look good. Great normals on the tree.

A.Kincade

I'm digging it. I like the style and the flow. Looks awesome.

The house seems slightly big imo. That would have to be a helluva strong tree to support what looks to be a normal sized house on it. (3 story tree house? pretty gnarly for a tree) With that said it still is a very interesting scene and I like where it is going. I like the idea behind it. Good effort thus far.

turpedo

I think some good support structures would be cool. As it stands right now the section of the house on the middle left hand side looks funny just floating there on that tiny branch.

crazyfingers

Good compisition. The grey background's really killing it though. Also the any flate color on organics is going to look a little cartoony, you should try to break up your browns and greens by overlaying some other hues into the texture (yellows and reds). The dark brown in general is a little too saturated i think and breaks up your sillhouette too much.

Once you get a little broader color range, flush out the grey, it'll look great .

Davision3D

I wonder why is nobody mentioning the wheel! What it is for, there is no water!?
Overall it looks cool! But what also bugs me is that the main branch is very thick and the branches that get out it are quite thin and too short and there is not much foliage.
Also better present it on a heaven blue background that would make it look lots better.
Should it be game art? That are much too much polys spend in it and they are also very uneven used!

dbsboy

Thanks all for the comments. Here's an update. I'll move on to my next scene for the while and come back later. Planning to do a night scene.

MartinH

Looking pretty cool. Maybe instead of having what looks to be a waterwheel under the building you could put a windmill instead.

SnarG

Tree cities? I'm digging it. Just two things that kinda stand out for me:

1) The lamps. The metallic look just doesn't fit the scene for me. Why not go with something more natural looking, for example: http://images01.olx.com.ph/ui/1/38/60/8293860_1.jpg

2) The modelled leaves. The leaf planes look great, why bother modelling individual leaves?

I would agree with MartinH about the windmill as well. It would make more sense and allow you to get a bit of colour variation in the scene with some canvas-like sails: http://tk.noblogs.org/gallery/5476/mill_2.png

killingpeople

Awesome

Ark

Looks good man, but there are some crits i have as well.

Theres some poly distribution problems on the large branch that is supporting the house seems to have much more poly's than the smaller branch that forms part of the walkway.

The house supports have way to many poly's in them adding nothing to the form, put the poly's where the camera is in your image.

I think you can remove quite a lot of geometry in your scene without ruining the forms.

BeserK

Looks really nice man!
There's way too much moss on that tree! looks like it was dragged up from under a swamp!
Hang on, it that moss, or ivy?

3DLee

This is fantastic, and I love the camera angle you chose! The bright lime green color of the leaves in the foreground is bugging me a little bit, maybe tone it down just slightly?

bounchfx

reminds me of the cg animated donkey kong cartoon, aha!

looks sweet dude!

OBlastradiusO

It's looks good but my eye is jumping around too much. It would be nice to have some contrast in certain places.

urgaffel

If you darken the leaves in the foreground you might get a nice framing effect going. Will also stop the eye from being drawn to them too much.

Matroskin

looks cool, but it is not for real-time right?

Is it for a pre-rendered adventure game sort of background?

jacob07777

I'm really diggin all the textures and the really organic feel to the whole thing. Real quick, but why are some of the leaves alpha'd while others are actually modeled out. When I originally looked at the scene I couldnt notice the difference between which ones were models and which were opacity mapped, I think if you opacity mapped more of these you could save a ton of tris and wouldnt loose any of the details.

That being said though, this is still a really great piece and its some very inspirational work

dbsboy

Wow thank you everyone for their very helpful comments.
I am probably going to do all the changes mentioned soon.
Polycount has the best c&c's, thanks again everyone!

dbsboy

Hi all,
I've tweaked the color of the leaves. Do they look more natural?

9skulls

jacob07777 wrote: »

I'm really diggin all the textures and the really organic feel to the whole thing. Real quick, but why are some of the leaves alpha'd while others are actually modeled out.

Same here! What's up with the modelled leaves?

BJA

Really like that scene since you don't care too much about the polycount, I would model some mountains for the background instead of having them in the skybox. Some more darker green leaves would also help I think.

You ever thought about making a nighttime version of this scene? I think it would turn out great with all those lamps leading to the building.

BoBo_the_seal

Love it!

I think I would elongate the bark on the limb in the foreground. I know it wouldn't "technically" be correct but the perspective has turned the bark detail into noise. Stretching(faking) it a little in that area would give it back it's bark feel.

- BoBo