Portfolio Environment - Koln 1945

[pliang]

Hey everyone, just thought I might as well post what I have to show and get some advice on board....

This is a WW2 inspired environment referenced off several images I found on flickr then decided to build a scene based off.

I actually "finished" a while back but thought is just looked incomplete to my own standards so decided to rework it.

This is what I currently have:




And a paint over version from a much more talented friend of mine





I am trying to achieve a similar bloom like effect on my version but I'm having troubles setting it up .

My current setup (In Maya) is using an environment with final gather and ray trace shadows plus ambient lights in the mid and back ground.

Anyone know how to offset the shadows and colors it would help for sure.

[Bmm0220]

You should try adding some colour to your lights, i woul alos considder creating a light and just making it light the background plane, that way you can control the colour and bloomed efect on the sky without messing up the rest of the lighting.

Alos if you want the more contrasy look to it try reducing the intensity of the main light and then adding in new coloured fill lights to areas that are to dark.

Just be carefull that the amout of colour in the lights is very slight as it dosent take much to make your scene look like it has a coloured filter over it rather than just a nice tinted feel.

[Seaseme]

I like it.. mostly. THe one thing that really catches my eye are the plane in the air. They look like they're just.. floating there. Maybe some motion blur on the propellers, or on the planes themselves. They look really.. boring.