humorix opened this issue on Oct 04, 2002 ยท 25 posts
tuttle posted Sat, 05 October 2002 at 5:14 AM
All very useful stuff. Seeings as a couple of you requested more clarification, here it is:- Aldaron - what I was meaning was that the juncture between the sea and the craft is unrealistic. The water looks too "thick". There needs to be a quick graduation from opaque to totally transparent, with a small amount of white foam, maybe even a few small groups of bubbles. The hair on the guy's face is great, but on the hands I can see the join. It's a minor matter, but a quick "diffuse" would blend the colour of the hair better with the hands. Humorix - there's nothing wrong with the concept of the POV you took - close to the ground, angled slightly upwards (although I would have put it lower, increased the FOV slightly and give in 5deg of tilt) - it's more that the characters' stances don't match that composition and therefore the POV doesn't work (IMO). The big guy and the flying guy are both facing out of the picture, leading the eyes outwards, and the big guy and the alien guy are both cut off in several places because of the border. I know it would be equally wrong to cram everything in, but there are legs and antennae and butts cut off all over the place (ouch!) Also, the big guy's lack of shadow in that bright sun somehow decreases his apparent size. The landscape - well, it's probably just a matter of taste - to me it looks like you accidently skewed a terrain and just left it. The colours on the far terrain look almost poserized - toon shaded - which clashes with the rich colours of the robots. WOW - all this criticism makes it sound bad! Just let me end up by saying it's once of the best Bryce sci-fi scenes I've look at in recent months! Whilst I'm posting, who thinks that it would more productive if people commented like this in the galleries? I used to, but I must admit that I've given up of late because I seemed to be only one of a handful of people doing it. Thinking back, though, I got more IMs thanking me for critical comments that I did for comments like "great pic", which shows I'm not the only one who thinks like this. Views...? (Nice new Rendo screens in the galleries BTW)