After several times of reworking the scene I am relatively happy with how this composition finally turned out and call this finished.
Blender 245RC2 only.
Comments welcome.
Thank you.
Dierk
The red comet/ball-trailing-strings seems seriously out of place in an otherwise excellent composition. I wonder if this wouldn’t be a stronger work without it.
Thank your for your feedback Orinoco.
Actually I have never really thought about just leaving that element out to see how this changes the image. I’ll make a new render without the ball to see how it looks.
Here is an update without the ball.
Orinoco: you were right! The ball is out of place. Thanks again for that hint. To me the image looks much more “balanced” now.
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Well, now it’s simply an excellent composition. Five stars. I like it.
Thank you very much for the encouraging feedback Orinoco!
That is really cool! I really like it! Are you going to make more? Maybe in green or blue?
Great Work! 5*
Thank you very much for the motivating feedback Red Yoshi!
To answer your question: I had been vaguely thinking to create another image with different shapes and different colors. However I have not started to think about a specific idea yet as I first wanted to finalise this one (in the past I switched too often between different ideas and therefore never managed to finalise any of them…)
So in case I manage to make another one I’ll post it here so that you can have a look.
Dierk
Very mesmerizing to look at. It’s weird I stared at it for a whole minute (the average viewer spends 7 seconds on average looking at a piece of art). There’s something about it. It’s weird yet beautiful.
A little bland on the colours perhaps. Maybe some post pro would help. But still very nice!
Yeah, I like it a lot, too, though I probably miss some details in the brown area of the image…I’m not sure, maybe it is too reflective but something there bugs me. Nevertheless, interesting and fine piece with a quite nice composition. I’d like to see more like that!
redbyte, Myke: thank you very much for your feedback!
@redbyte: Originally I wanted to render the different elements on different render layers to be able to do some post pro on them if needed. As I need the world for the reflection and thereby need to render the sky I didn’t manage to get a reasonably sharp mask for compositing. I’ll give it another try and in case it works I’ll try some post pro on the colors.
@Myke: you are right: the surface is completely flat and has a reflectivity of about 30 to 40%. I’ll have a think about textures or additional structures which could add detail to the surface.
nice! much better without that strange red ball. I don’t really have a crit, just keep it coming…