This weekend I decided to participate in my first weekend challenge. I expect many entries to include something with machinery, so I was looking for an alternative angle on the topic.
I came up with the Red Light District (RLD) of Amsterdam. Although machinery is not (necessarily ) involved, it is an entire industry of its own. Here is a render (blender internal raytracer) with much of the scene already modelled:
I have now to texture the objects, and search for good lighting+camera angle.
It has more detailed lamps and sirene, and neon tubes have been added. They are now on the outside, because in earlier renderings their neon quality wasn’t that clear. Now that I made the window glass more transparent I must try them inside.
As I have no first-hand information (really) - searched the net. There is a site that keeps track of the Amsterdam RLD. This is the reference picture I use (and copy )
Maybe you should copy a reference-image from Bourbon Street (New Orleans, LA, USA). Now those “ladies” know how to do a red-light district!
Seriously, what I would be looking for in this shot is something that tells me, visually, that “this is a red-light district.” (And, “this is what that phrase means to me, the artist, and which I am now going to try to communicate with you, the viewer, at-a-glance.”)
Whether it be a movie, a photograph, or a computer animation, you’ve simply gotta tell your storyfirst. No matter how beautiful it is or how grungy and rough it is, that story’s gotta be there.
After having tweaked the scene more (including the removal of the plant as per gf suggestion), playing a bit with textures and lighting I think that I’ll go with the preview in this message:
The image is quite dark on my other monitor, but I think I’ll keep it as it is now (crank up the gamma of your own if it is too dark )
I’ll be rendering it with OSA turned on and at a resolution of 1280x1024.
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