Thanks for the detailed and honest feedback Bagel, it's definitely appreciated. Wow a lot to unpack here haha: * The shading issues. Usually this happens with triangles at poles and usually I don't know how to fix it without adding in more geometry which I typically don't want to do for the sake of poly count. I've tried…
I think with the lighting you can use more spot lights than you currently are. A number of your lights have directionality-the ceiling lights and floor lights especially. Have spots shining down and casting the shadows and some small point lights up top acting as a fill if needed. That might create more contrast in the…
Let's talk about what material definition is, first. Material definition is being able to clearly tell the difference between adjacent materials, as well as being able to tell what each of those individual materials is made of. For example, I could look at two flat grey materials with different gloss values and assume that…
Hey Matt, I think your making some good progress with this image so far man. One thing I think you could do to really push this image (beyond what you have mentioned so far), is to really take the time to play with the intensity/color of the sunlight coming down onto the city streets. If daytime is your intended look to…
I'm not huge on the concept as I feel it's a bit loud and lacks focal interest. However, you've done a good job putting the scene together to capture its feel. There are some changes in your latest update that I'm not sure were for the better. There are a lot of little things that I think you can fix to push the scene…
Hi! I've started a new project and I thought I should post it here. This will be my first Pimping thread, but I've just made a model that I really like and thought it was time to post it for some critics and comments. So I've based my model on Stephan Martinieres concept for Frankensteins lab:…
Talking about lighting this tutorial might give you a good start, especially when using marmoset. Although the tutorial is focused on lighting for characters and thus not everything will be applicable or usefull for lighting hardsurface models (from my experience) it will be a good start with some valuables do's and…
The banners seem overly bright; a subtle normal map would also help give them a more natural cloth appearance. Also, replace the black in the texture with a very dark grey - in life, even the darkest cloth reflects some light. The ground lights in the first image are very bright. While this might be visibly appealing,…
Tried doing a paintover. Then rememberd "Oh, right, the only thing i can draw is horses" But basically i think it's mostly there. But i'm looking at wilf scolding's eyes and his left eye is droopier than his right and his nose tilts to the left. His nose is a bit wider at the base than you have it and it slopes a little…
good start. - There is a major problem with scale. The pipes and valves r too big which makes all the other objects (barrels and especially forklift) seem tiny. The foreground valve is especially huge by looking at which the ceiling height feels like an average human would touch it with the head. -Lighting. In a dark…