Had the lighting fixed for a while, but picked up Hunted and took a day off, then worked pretty hard on a complex flower, didn't want to go simple with it, suggestions?
This is coming along nicely. It's always great to see someone actually listen to critique and improve their work based on it. As for suggestions, I think smaller props such as the flowers you mentioned would be a nice addition. And if you are worried about reusing the same pillar, maybe you could have one of the pillars in…
No matter what you do to the pillar itself (it looks good) the image is always going to suffer because your composition is off. At the moment everything of interest is in the right hand side of the scene with nothing of interest on the left. Sephez's suggestion fixes this with the repeted pillars but you could always add…
Okay changes - painted out the seam on the main pillar, increased intensity/saturation on the colored environment lights, added light towards the back to match the sky, added to the design on the smaller stone, desaturated the sky, darkened areas of the glow, and probably more that I can't think of. I decided to stick with…
Still planning on adding some flowers but wanted to get this up here Changes: adjusted grass to match ground better, disabled DOF to see if sky looks better, added other stones, changed grass to a more patchy look (i'm happier with it now), softened fog edge. Overall a few things - I never planned to do a real environment,…