Indiana Bones almost finished :) Please give some crits

I’ve been working on this for some time, textures are made with Mapzone 2.6, a free node based seamless brilliant texture maker :eyebrowlift:

Anyways, i have come to a point where i am stuck, and need some advice from others:

Its probably to dark, but if i give it to much light it looks wrong…

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/3101/indianabonesuh7.th.png

It is far too dark. I can only see faint shapes if I highlight the pic…so you’re gonna have to render it with more light.

Its possible your monitor screen is brighter than normal and that it looks ok to you, but not everyone else who has a normally configured monitor.

I can’t see anything it’s too dark.

Hm… I didn’t have hardly any trouble seeing it (after I clicked on the picture). However, I’d say it looks to peaceful. If the premise is that he fell down the hole and was impaled by some of the spikes, then it shouldn’t look like he’s laying down taking a nap. It looks like you tried to get one of the spikes (with the hat) going through the rib cage. Perhaps if you broke some of the ribs, and then had the skeleton not resting fully on the ground because it is stuck on the spike, it would look more like an impact. The same goes with the spike; did it really stay perfectly intact and not move even though it completeley ran him through? And you need to coat everything in a layer of dust. I’m not sure how to do that, but… Just things to think about, anyways.

Its an interesting concept and I like the feel of the scene so far, and really like the modeling of the skeleton.

maybe a shaft of light onto the hat? I think the scene needs to be dark, but maybe just some highlights

Sure it needs to be dark, but you can achieve a moody dark atmosphere and still have contrast. Look at the thumbnail.
All you can see is the title. A good composition should be able to be read at thumbnail size.
I would suggest that you fix the lighting so that we can critique the rest.

i dont see any bones hehe

Nooo! Indy mate, what’s happened to you!

It’s an interesting idea, I agree with what’s said above…

Im very busy at the moment, work and sailing, but as soon i get home tomorrow i’ll get back to it, i’ve been experimenting with the light and contrast, and im getting some really nice results… just hang in there :wink:

At last i got something worthy of posting, i have (almost) totally remodeled everything, tweaked materials, and lots and lots of other small improvements.

Sunday night i will be going to France, if you crits get to me in time i’ll see what can do, but dont expect me back in the seven days:)

Anyways here it is:
http://img61.imageshack.us/my.php?image=indianabonespv7.png