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[kepler]

Hello,
this is a finished artwork (though it looks like a wip) but I decided to stop working with and experiment with some other scenes.
I'm a new user of both Blender and Indigo 0.6, so it was difficult for me even modelling the room
I've found all the models (lamps, armchair, window) and the hrdi map on internet; the illuminated picture is the hdri map itself converted to jpg and used as a texture. After 12h+ of rendering it was still really noisy, so I decided to stop indigo and de-noise the image with Neat-Image, then I reduced the dimensions a bit with Photoshop and added the black passpartout.
Since I am a newbie, all suggestions and critiques are really welcome!

[mzungu]

kepler,

This is one of the few scenes I've seen posted that employ the combination of indoor and outdoor lighting (most here seem to use one or the other) - and you achieved a very good balance - it comes across as being twilight, giving a very good mood to the image. The scene itself is somewhat austere, likely because of the very few elements decorating the room. There are some good finishing touches, but things could be "fleshed out" somewhat. I'd suggest placing a baseboard around the bottom of the walls, maybe toss in a small rug and a coffee table complete with misc. items lying on it.

Also, you do have a couple of "black polys" on the skylights. Searching here may provide you with solutions to this issue, but usually it has to do with surface-normal direction. Another tip I read about, but don't know if it applies anymore is to make any "white" materials slightly off-white (like RGB 0.8, 0.8, 0.8 or somesuch) as it helps indigo reach a less-noisy solution more quickly for those objects (don't know or understand any technicalities behind this... just remember reading about it here somewhere.)

Keep at it, tho! This is a very good first run!