http://img62.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0272cj6.jpg
Origionally made a metal outhouse, but wood just looked better for thicker walls.
Took about a day to make from start to finish, I thought of adding random junk, but that would look a liitle out of place with an outhouse.
Stones made using displace modifier.
Heavy use of static particles.
Door wood made using lots of planes with an alpha procedural…
Hey, not bad at all, the particle grass is very well done. I don’t like the rocks, you’d be better of by hand modeling them, but other than that, a nicel little scene.
OKay, good job making a change, but there are some key issues…
1 The lighting is fairly boring. There arent any obvious shadows.
2 The Particles look to skinny, and have gross lines. Mayeb try something thicker, and more keys.
3 The texture on the outhouse looks like a procedural, and much too big. Check some image sites for a tileable wood texture.
4 The bumps in the ground are too big, making them quite unrealistic. Small, and more bumps.
5 The Outhouse is a good focal point, but its too bland to really captivate anybody.
The image needs something really interesting, to pull it up. Even making it night, and having light rays coming out of the cracks around the door(There should be cracks, wood is imprefect, this is too cleancut) would add a layer of mystery.
Keep it up.
This won’t effect the rating of your image, but please compress your images for your dial up friends.
I like the feeling you’ve got going on this one. Nice shadows, nice particles… The rocks look a little odd though, since they’re just protruding through the ground. Some alternate texturing around the edges of the rocks would make this more convincing.
The actual outhouse is the only part that I don’t like in the render. The wood texture is a little iffy.
Free_ality, while a night render would look interesting outhouses don’t usually have electricity and no candle would be bright enough to make a bright lighting effect on the ground.
I could make the grass thicker, but then again it could raise crits on it being too thick.
Thanks for the comments so far, I do think that almost any change I make to this image could raise crits about the change and possibly cause a long chain of tweaks that would end up not pleasing everyone. But so far I have a healthy variety of opinions.
I could try compressing the image for dial up folks but you know what that would mean, for a .jpg image that would mean artifacts and that would detract from the quality.
Nah, not like electricity, maybe something magic etc…
You could still achieve the effect of it being night time without the image being completely black. Possibly by using different tints of blue.
Exactly…
Hmm, yet another low rating on this. The rating implies it’s not all that much better then my last one, yet I got somewhat better comments.
Then again the thing that seems to sometimes go “it’s a nice little scene overall, 2 stars” proves you can’t trust it completely as an indication of a good work.
How come its just a door frame?
-Nums
Okay I really think the only way I ever get 3 stars on something is dumb luck. The time I got 4 stars I was just lucky.
Nums: Outhouses are usually like that, most are just a door with a little thing behind it.
the stars dont mean shit. from what ive been noticing its purely dependant on who posts what when and what mood people are in. dont stress about differing star ratings. its not always the same people rating your picture anyways.
as far as the image goes, its a good improvement and improvement is what matters no? we have a coherent picture thats not overcrowded or distracting, we have a mood (something which escapes way too many renderings/pieces of art), and we have a decent composition.
to me it looks like an old outhouse late in the afternoon somewhere on the sea shore. and i think getting a feel for what is beyond what is just shown is one of the most important goals of any art. keep improving.
Well you look in the website & forum forum you can see suggestions brought up on how to improve the rating system.
Though the star system is a bit shaky when gauging quality.
forget the stars.
If there were no stars, would you continue posting?
You base your success on an overrated system that has no standing in anything, while generally ignoring everyone’s comments.
Listen to the people, not the pixels.
nice.
why do you think people are discussing an improved rating system? probably because the current one is subpar.
Maybe you should use the ivy generator and make it going up the side of the out house.But it looks pretty good.