hi guys,
I am doing a project on a ghost house and now I need your opinions. Aiming for photorealism, allthough I know its still a long road to it.
I deserve your suggestions, just 1 day left !
thanks
besides : do you know where to find a wood texture with bump and spec map, cause mine is crappy
Is the attachment a photo or a render? If it’s the later it doesn’t look too bad at this distance. If it’s a photo, the could you show us what you have so far?
what is on the edges on the roof?
Softer shadows and a good sky texture would help, but decent modeling so far.
Yeh, the white seem really out of place - they look to new and bright for a ghost house… also the scene doesn’t give that impression. In the happy setting it looks more like an old house than a haunted one… also the grass seems a bit flat…
good modelling though and a nice composition so far, keep it up and you’ll have a really good render here 
oh thanks guys thats all very nice cmmenting so far, I will send an update in “one luxrender hour” which is 12 real time hours ^^
no serious, will take into account everything you said so far, besides the wide things should be things that prevent dove or so to sit (and shit) on the roof
AND ITS NOT A PHOTO ! (but thx^^)
Looks good, great work, but like Dakka said, the white steps looks out of place… A bit more to add if it was me would be, a night sky, full moon, moon light effects, some torch/candle light, some vines, and mud/dirt on/around the house. To add some more effects I would say create a ‘mist’ form near the door or any other focal point and make a couple ghosts… Maybe even some broken glass in there, and a couple borded up windows. Also to add some more photorealism would be to add in some latice where you could put vines, I think you need a bit of brush or at least an “overgrown” look to it.
Hope it helps 
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your all right with the mood effects light night and moon (maybe some wolfs and so on) but its for a private contest and my opponent would /will win even easylier when I do it all too morbid and dirty cause he has a clean modern bla bla bla house like all these modern minimalistic interiors that kind of style and this is what the audience likes the most. Our voting people also automatically think that modern and clean is better. They like it more and so I have to be a bit inconsequent. But I also think like you all do, it doesnt really provoke emotions but I also want to win >.>
update coming in some hours, texture work imo
Just a dumb suggestion, but why not make it a renovation? Just tack on some glass atrium to the side and repaint the boards. You get some modern for free. I too thought it was a foto reference.
As Dakka Dakka said, it looks more like an old house, rather than a haunted one. I would suggest you to make some broken glass, and the wooden texture should be a little darker and more contrast(to add realism and haunted effect).
As for the bump/spec maps for wood.
If you have photoshop, you could desaturate it completely(Ctrl+Shift+U) and play with curves(Ctrl+U) and/or levels(Ctrl+L), until you get something that’s pretty (conrasty ?). This could work for both, the spec and the bump map.
If you don’t have photoshop, I’d be more than pleased to help you out.
If you have photoshop, you could desaturate it completely(Ctrl+Shift+U) and play with curves(Ctrl+U) and/or levels(Ctrl+L), until you get something that’s pretty (conrasty ?). This could work for both, the spec and the bump map.
If you don’t have photoshop, I’d be more than pleased to help you out.
thx Warius, made a few tests, if thats the way you can do a bump map I will try it with Gimp and when not pleasing I will send it to you ;-
ok here is an update
now with a little bit ivy action (http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/), darker stone, better gras which is hard to be seen at that render level, cracks in the glass, a sky, an hdri map and refinded textures.
hope these triangles at the top vanish after a while …
counting on your crits
