that's purdy

Hey guys, good shots. I'm glad you guys are nearing the completion of this. Boyd and I are wrapping up and its a good feeling. Congratulations all around to Team vAntage.

There's something about the smoke/dust you have in your pictures that's throwing it off to me. Did you guys add soft particles to the Infernal Engine? It almost looks like it was done in Photoshop rather than using an atmosphere effect/effect emitter to do it. On top of that, its really removing any sort of contrast those areas of the the scene have by using that grey smoke/dust.

The idea of the room being dusty/smokey, I think, would be pulled off more convincingly and keep the contrast in those areas at an even level if it were done with dust motes/particles rather than filled images.

As well, the materials are falling a bit flat. The concrete areas look decent but I think the machines and the frame work of the gournies could really stand to get a proper environment/reflection treatment to their materials. I know its suppose to be old & dirty/dusty but the reflective property of those metals would still come through in areas. The floor in the second shot is pretty believeable, assuming its a ceramic tile or something similar.

On that note, I wonder how the blood would look if it were a bit shinier. Somewhat unrealistic, especially if its old & dried, but it'd pop out a bit more if it were that way.

That said, I think its a fantastic piece. Some fucked up shit went on here and thats really apparent. My favourite part is the silhouette of the drip bags in the second shot.

Thanks Adam some comments below:

Originally Posted by adamBrome

There's something about the smoke/dust you have in your pictures that's throwing it off to me. Did you guys add soft particles to the Infernal Engine? It almost looks like it was done in Photoshop rather than using an atmosphere effect/effect emitter to do it. On top of that, its really removing any sort of contrast those areas of the the scene have by using that grey smoke/dust.

The smoke/fog inside is a bit too much and planned on stepping it back a little as your right it does kill the contrast a bit. Yes Soft Particles are in Infernal now

Originally Posted by adamBrome

As well, the materials are falling a bit flat. The concrete areas look decent but I think the machines and the frame work of the gournies could really stand to get a proper environment/reflection treatment to their materials. I know its suppose to be old & dirty/dusty but the reflective property of those metals would still come through in areas. The floor in the second shot is pretty believeable, assuming its a ceramic tile or something similar.

Yeah we agree something about some of the lighting on the machines is making it flat we are going to adjust lighting some tonight and give it a retry. I am sure some stronger and more contrasting specular will be needed as well.

Originally Posted by adamBrome

On that note, I wonder how the blood would look if it were a bit shinier. Somewhat unrealistic, especially if its old & dried, but it'd pop out a bit more if it were that way.

I think we liked the contrast breakup between the specular ceramic tile and dried blood.


anyways we will keep grinding away at it small tweaks at a time :p

Fantastic work guys - the composition, colours and contrast are really great.

this is just outstanding! beautiful, guys!

Epic! Great work

Ok guys as we wrap up here are all our final images!

render01:


render02:


Construction:


Concept:


Texture:



It was a lot of fun and congrats to everyone for great work! Now lets take down those GA do gooders!

metzelei haus sounds somewhat unusal in german - did you mean "schlachthaus "(>slaughterhouse)

turned out real nice.

yes I did, sorry it sounds weird.. ignorant American using a crappy translator

really quality work, guys.

ship it! My favourite entry

great work guys!!!
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Very very pretty, much improved from what was an already excellent piece the last time
that I looked. I think its the upgrades to its readability that helps sell it.

Professional level work all the way through, best of luck!

nice 1

Really nice work guys. I must say you nailed the concept which was also awesome.

Awesome stuff everyone! Grats on the completion and best of luck.

realy impressive. maybe a winner? ^^

Nice, but your final renders are a little bit blurry~~

Love the blue and orange contrast.

Hmm, yeah, that first final render looks like I'm viewing it at 66.7% zoom in Photoshop, you know where it hasn't quite antialiased right, it looks like it was resampled strangely or something?
It's especially noticeable where the silhouette of the dark wall hits the yellow/orange bright background, that diagonal line looks like it should be really sharp and clear, and yet it looks a bit fuzzy like it's incorrectly sampled...

Oh well, the end result is still great. I just thought that you should be able to get nicer quality AA on the final image.

hey guys I think this looks amazing, and the contrast of colors is really good... good stuff

top notch! in your second final shot I would like more contrast between the blackest blacks and the whitest whites. - moreso on teh white end.

looks so damn good guys, so damn impressive, great work! Good luck!

Grats on finishing! I loved watching it progress, great work!

Congrats on the 2nd place, you noobs!

geez.. just got back in town from the land of no internets and saw the results. If you all woulda started over like I had said... maybe you would have gotten first. grats.

really loving the way you made the destroyed floors and walls. very convincing.

and congratulations on getting 2nd place, there was lots of competition