A long while ago i did a tutorial about making these balloons (back in blender 2.5)
recently I decided to try and make them better…
what do you guys think?
They look better than the original but, I think they’re too glossy, balloons tend to be pretty matte.
Thanks for the feedback! In the future I’ll remember to make it more like plastic.
I like the middle one. It’s not realistic and that’s why I like it. It has strong dreamy colours. The first image gave me idea of dream balloons. If you like, you could make balloons with dreams, each balloon reflect diffrent image. Great work. 
I remember this tutorial, it was the first time I ever used Blender. Very nice remake!! It would be nicer if you got a higher resolution sky texture too.
That would be really intresting I think I’ll give that a try! Thanks!
Yes I agree. I used the same image from the tutorial, but it is far too blurry for the high resolution balloons.
Do you per chance remember who made that tutorial? I tried to look it up, but none of the results I got were the right one.
A good atmosphere, and great lighting, but the balloons look metallic, perhaps if you add a mix node and apply a transparency node it could improve your result, although I also noticed that in the first scene the balloon stands are inside the carpet, and in the second one the chalk board is hovering off the ground. Those things are easy to fix though.