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Title: Hillside Stairs
Post by: masonspappy on July 02, 2017, 06:54:44 AM
Haven't posted images in a while. Too much life going on....
Nothing special here. Simple landscape and no experimentation.
Just wanted to sit down and play with my artwork.
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: mhaze on July 02, 2017, 07:35:17 AM
Very nicely done - needs a cat or two!
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Post by: luvsmuzik on July 02, 2017, 08:24:12 AM
Love the setting! Great natural vegetation mix. I like how you have added the hillside stairs and wall.
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Post by: DocCharly65 on July 02, 2017, 08:58:20 AM
Beautiful!
If I can still walk stairs then I 'd like to live in such a home after retirement :)
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Post by: KlausK on July 02, 2017, 09:31:10 AM
Beautiful scene!
The only thing I would try to put some more time into is the structure of the step stones.
I don`t know but I think it`s either too big or too small somehow.
In any way a nice place to be, for sure.
Cheers, Klaus
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: masonspappy on July 02, 2017, 11:38:01 AM
Thanks all for your comments. Very much appreciate it.
@KlausK,  My wife (one of my fiercest critics) agreed about the steps.  She also pointed out the windows were perfectly clean and there were no curtains hung up.   ::)
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Post by: Kadri on July 02, 2017, 03:24:54 PM

Looks good.
Subjective maybe but i would point the camera a little higher. The centre looks like the steps.
It feels a little cropped right now to me.
Then maybe even a barely seen mountain on the very far right side?
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Post by: DocCharly65 on July 02, 2017, 05:03:04 PM
Quote from: masonspappy on July 02, 2017, 11:38:01 AM
Thanks all for your comments. Very much appreciate it.
@KlausK,  My wife (one of my fiercest critics) agreed about the steps.  She also pointed out the windows were perfectly clean and there were no curtains hung up.   ::)


I saw that with the curtains too - but I didn't want to say anything because I knew from another render that your wife would surely say somthing about that ;D
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: bobbystahr on July 02, 2017, 05:16:42 PM
I like this very much but agree with your wife re: curtains, or maybe furnishings showing would be my no curtain path. I like the way you resolved putting a building on an uneven terrain with all the brickwork...good trick that.
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Post by: Dune on July 03, 2017, 02:06:13 AM
Nice work! I like the ground veggies most, but the whole setting is very well done. I do have my reservations about the windows too; there also seems a weird reflection or hole in the sidewall behind it in the upper right big window. It's not correct somehow. Better dirty it up or something.
The stairs have a bit of a weird color IMHO, and I would add some flattish fakestones to it, or at least texture it procedurally in world space (like concrete). Even perhaps set it to displacement instead of RT rendering, for any fake stones to be effective.
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: bobbystahr on July 03, 2017, 08:31:46 AM
Quote from: masonspappy on July 02, 2017, 06:54:44 AM
Haven't posted images in a while. Too much life going on....
Nothing special here. Simple landscape and no experimentation.
Just wanted to sit down and play with my artwork.

masonspappy, did you build the model or find it online? Either was is the any way I can get it to use?
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: masonspappy on July 03, 2017, 10:21:19 AM
Quote from: bobbystahr link=topic=23321.msg236188#msg236188 date

masonspappy, did you build the model or find it online? Either was is the any way I can get it to use?
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Hey Bobby, you mean the model of the house?  I build that in blender and will be happy to share with you.

Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: bobbystahr on July 03, 2017, 01:14:09 PM
Quote from: masonspappy on July 03, 2017, 10:21:19 AM
Quote from: bobbystahr link=topic=23321.msg236188#msg236188 date

masonspappy, did you build the model or find it online? Either was is the any way I can get it to use?
/quote]

Hey Bobby, you mean the model of the house?  I build that in blender and will be happy to share with you.



very cool thanks. send to:
bstar@mts.net   would be best unless you're putting it in File Sharing.
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: masonspappy on July 08, 2017, 01:06:53 PM
Thanks folks for the guidance. I like this version a lot better.
Sadly the windows are still clean. Still haven't figured out how to dirty them up.
@BobbyStahr: the house model (in TGO format) is in the file sharing section. Let me now if you have any trouble with it.
- Cam
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: bobbystahr on July 08, 2017, 01:10:14 PM
Quote from: masonspappy on July 08, 2017, 01:06:53 PM
Thanks folks for the guidance. I like this version a lot better.
@BobbyStahr: the house model (in TGO format) is in the file sharing section. Let me now if you have any trouble with it.
- Cam

WOO HOO, Best solution that hadn't dawned on me....
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Post by: Dune on July 09, 2017, 02:24:31 AM
Great improvement, Cam. Stairs are terrific now, curtains a nice solution.
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Post by: bobbystahr on July 09, 2017, 07:56:46 AM
Agree 100% with Dune's assessment...well done render and thanks for the house Cam.
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Post by: luvsmuzik on July 09, 2017, 09:00:47 AM
Is that two applications of the stair clip, or did you use an object? Great improvements however done!
Now, just an old couple with canes going up the stairs.... ;D If you're not gonna add a cat. :D
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: masonspappy on July 10, 2017, 06:36:47 PM
Thanks folks.   :)
@ luvsmusik:  stairs (just like wall and house) were created in Blender.   Concerning the cat, let me see what I can rustle up....
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Post by: masonspappy on July 15, 2017, 06:44:01 PM
@ Luvsmusik.... hey would a rabbit work instead of a cat?
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Post by: bobbystahr on July 15, 2017, 10:26:01 PM
Aw, that's cute enuff fer sure.
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Post by: Cocateho on July 25, 2017, 11:15:09 PM
Awesome details, I would love to live in that house  ;D. By any chance are soft shadows turned on? The render overall still has a very CG feel to it but I think it's some aspect of the lighting...
Title: Re: Hillside Stairs
Post by: archonforest on July 26, 2017, 01:58:41 AM
2nd version is great. Glad u put something front of the right stone wall. Well done.