Indigo Renderer Forum

3dsMax and Maxigo.
The cherub was borrowed from the Doom 3 "Id software" imported into 3dsmax using an md5 import script.

I needed a character like that, so I just added a few polys. All posters are just some renderings I made earlier. Some adjustments in Violet and later ps.

Cheers
Johan Sae-Thao

niiice!!!

Thats very nice...yet very creepy.

Hello Johan ! I think your image has some good potential, but it has to much contrast and so is hardly readable... maybe you are on apple computer (stronger gamma) ? For instance I can't say what's this object on the foreground (if any)...

At this point I would experiment more with tonemapping; wich did you use + settings please ?

Thanks for the comments, I wanted it to be high contrast, but as I knew whats what and where it is. I never thought other people would have a problem to understand my layout. This is my fault, bad POV.

I think I could try another camera insted of lighting the interior up even more. It should be dark, with a strong backlight "Sun".

I will see if I can fix the scene, it was more of a Indigo playaround anyway

Bye
Johan Sae-Thao

Creepy in a very nice way.

Wow, nice and creepy. Good job!

Oki Johan, I understand your point, and the second image helped me a lot by the way. Now it makes sense to me, and yes, I guess creepy is the right term to use

I don't know much about lighting but it looks to me like you probably could fix this by adding a faint light in back of the camera. Not strong enough so that you know it's there, yet bright enough so that we can see the scene better. I haven't touched 3DS in a while so I forget which type of light would be appropriate for this task.

Just a thought

I disagree with the crits - it's an intentionally artsy shot that I honestly couldn't tell (except for the rocks texture) wasn't simply photoshopped together.

It's contrasty in the same way horror movies or dramas can be - you want, really want to see whats in the dark portions of your view, but - there's no light. Tension.

simple yet very effective... i really like it.

i think you can try the scene with a faint fill light like Borgleader said, and compare yourself, which one expresses better...

if i were you, i would try with a green light

//if i were you, i would try with a green light//

I could try a fill light, if it doesnt work, I agree. I dont have to use it. Green color is a color I would belive in to. There is already orange lights and some blue color from the environment that find it´s way. When I color adjusted the Image in ps, green was a color I liked, but didnt use. I only applied some blur here and there using masks, and a final color/highlight adjustment "Pal and ntsc safe". I also tend to look on the render saturated. Detail should be visible saturated to......

I will see what Iam gonna do. Been doing Object oriented renderings and some architectural interior viz lately. But been working as an game level designer long time ago. Could be fun mixing everything together, medium poly and a realistic render, like Indigo.

I have some differant ideas.....
Thanks for the feed back