Renzatic on 31/5/2018 at 06:24
I think I'm gonna stick a fork in this one, then.
Time to start a new one!
Judith on 31/5/2018 at 10:06
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When you post a picture of something you're working on, then you hop back in, make what you think's gonna be a minute change, and it suddenly looks so much nicer. What can you do? You've already posted the damn picture. You either gotta live with your decision, or quickly edit your post to update your new change before anyone sees it.
IMO that's mostly because you don't have conrete goals, story, or purpose for this image. There are many "correct" composition settings here, whether you use lighting, golden ratio, fibonacci's etc. The choice should depend on what you want to tell with this image.
Thirith on 31/5/2018 at 10:48
Yeah, but in a feedback thread it can really screw up a conversation if the things people get feedback on are edited. You'll read comments referring to a version of a work in progress that is no longer visible, but you don't really know. Better to see the progress and know what people are talking about, even if it means Renz posts variations of the same pic half a dozen times.
Renzatic on 31/5/2018 at 16:55
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IMO that's mostly because you don't have conrete goals, story, or purpose for this image. There are many "correct" composition settings here, whether you use lighting, golden ratio, fibonacci's etc. The choice should depend on what you want to tell with this image.
Right now, my intentions are centered around building assets for my project, designed with a specific style, and seeing how it all looks under semi-realistic lighting conditions. My two primary concerns for the moment are "does it look good", and "can I build it fast".
Though I am eventually going to come to the point where I intend for my images to tell a story or invoke a certain mood from the start, and these little exercises are good for practice and garnering advice to help me out, to better prepare me for when I do reach that point.
Judith on 31/5/2018 at 18:02
Then you can limit yourself to simple compositional goals, e.g. "I want viewer to start looking at the car and move towards boarded window". Even goals like having different parts of the picture on different composition patterns works pretty well. I often did it with photography and Lightroom's cropping overlays: starting with golden section and fibonacci, then looking at diagonal lines etc.
Gears94 on 1/6/2018 at 00:41
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That's an issue with rendering. I have lots of custom shaped lights in that scene, which means I have to jack up the samples to get rid of the grain they introduce, extending rendering times. The shot above was done with 800 samples, and took just shy of 20 minutes to complete.
I could use the denoiser option, but it produces what looks like compression artifacts into the darker areas of my image. All things considered, I'd rather put up with the grain.
Not sure if you have seen this before or maybe already know about whats being told in this video but if not then maybe this video could help lower your render time.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gSyEpt4-60)
Renzatic on 1/6/2018 at 01:09
I'm 10 minutes in, and it's already showed me some things I didn't know about. Thanks for the heads up. :D
Renzatic on 1/6/2018 at 02:33
Not only does it look good, but it's also topically relevant!
So are you drawing your own stuff now, Yak?
Yakoob on 1/6/2018 at 05:06
Haha, most of the stuff there is 3rd party either CC-BY or bought. The only original things I made is half of the BUY sign on the left and the text bubbles :p Plus, I had my environmental artist do an art-pass after I put everything together to make it look way better.
Took a few iterations...
Inline Image:
https://i.imgur.com/5576th3.jpg