Art gallery

this was for my last university project. We had to make an art exhibition gallery out of maximum 9 5.10x5.10 square modules with a maximum interior height of 3 or 4 something, I forgot.
This is what I made, basically a bigass concrete sausage. They liked the idea, but I made the drawings so ugly that I thought they'd kill me (I made them in 2 hours, from 2 to 4 am, so yeah...). Despite that, I took a fairly decent grade for it. Now for the current project I must make the drawings (oh, by drawings I mean facades, plans, etc. ; those must be done by hand) flawlessly or the teacher will be really pissed :S.

Anyway, about the technical side now. Made in 3ds max 9, rendered with great ol' maxwell render, polycount irrelevant. Grass and trees were added in photoshop.

holy fuck that looks so real.

i thought it was untill i saw the grass. total give-away lol GJ though i cant imagine me making something like that.

I refuse to believe that this isn't real.

Mhm i don't know what exactly it is, but there are a few things that look very odd, and ruin the imagination of a real picture.
Referring to the outdoor picture I think this is mainly because:
- Odd green blotch in the shadow of the sculpture and the concrete building
- the transition between the grass and the groundtiles is too linear
- the shadow of the sculpture is missing i think (not sure)
- One can easily the that the "tree" is a plane and the shadow looks odd
- theres a strange distortion in the reflections of the window i also noticed in some other render pictures from you

maybe this helps you, maybe not

At first, it looks like a prison in which you're always hunted... omg, liek Eternal Prison in Blood Omen 2 :o

Holy crap, looks so real!

Pleasing.

Yeah it looks VERY realistic...
but the shadows of the trees and the sculpture look somehow weird
I think the shadow of the trees is to sharp

- it's not odd, it's the light reflected by grass.
- you're right
- it's not missing. The sun is very high and doesn't cast long shadows.
- you can, indeed, see that but not easily; or actually it depends on how "trained" you are. Of course some ILM dude would piss on this picture, but people who rarely have contact with CG and have a weak sense of observation will realize this with a big delay or not at all.
- umm...there's no strange distortion at all. It's that sculpture thing, has a very weird shape.

not :P

akolyt0r, please define "weird" in this case. Tell me why do you think they look weird, that is.

I personally think that the shadow of the tree on the wall is somehow to sharp ...
And that the color of the shadow of the sculpture is wrong + there seems to be a strange thin outline around the shadow in a brighter green

Looks cool, one gripe I have is that it looks like you took speed over quality, the grain is very visible.

aye, I took the speed. I had very little time at my disposal.