the coke crusher

[pluMmet]

needs a little more work on those forearms and hands:beer:

[Joril]

I agree, give him a more natural pose.
It's like he's gesturing something like "what???"
The face and the hands (no palms) look really weird.

[Flypaper]

It's a good start, but you've got a long way to go as far as lighting, texturing and posing.

[hannibar]

Can you give me a few tips on the lighting?
I put more effort in lighting in this project than in other projects.
Here's my light setup.

I created a sort of lightdome who is bluetinted.
I created my keylight on the left of the camera, spreading some blueish light, and a filllight on the right with a red tint.

How should I improve the lighting?

[Flypaper]

Try tweaking some of these things, I'm not familiar with blender so you'll have to go by what I say:

The Scene seems too bright, too washed out, try lowering the multipliers on the lights. If this is a day scene try using a soft yellow instead of a softblue

The shadows seemed too defined for an outdoor scene, try softening them up a little, making them a little less dark.

Move the Keylight way up, as this represents the main light in the scene ( or sunlight) right now it appears to come straight across instead of down. I couldn't even tell there was a fill light in the scene, If your dome lights are set up correctly, you shouldn't even need this light.

As far as texturing is concerned:
The ground seems ok, could be a little more dirty, Try adding a dark hue around where the ground reaches the walls - displace it a bit, make it a tad uneven or even cracked (I'd also make it a bit darker), Maybe place some more rubbish around. The barrels are all using the same texture. Take that texture and alter it for each barrel. People will immediatley spot a re-used texture, try something different on each barrel, perhaps give a few of the dents in different places on each barrel. The barrels as a general rule are too shiny, maybe try using a specularity map (IF blender has one) and reduce the shine to only certain areas which aren't corroded.

As for your character, try giving him a custom map, unwrap him and texture him correctly, Right now you've just slapped on a generic texture. Give him correct bump mapping and specularity maps. And give him a natural pose.

Good luck and keep at it!

[hannibar]

Thanks for the texture and lighting tips. I appreciate this alot.
Hope I can do all those changes in one day (its for a contest with deadline today)

[hannibar]

here's an update

http://users.pandoa.be/willem.packet1/vat.html

As you can see I changed the pose a little.
I adjusted the lighting a bit, and did a few things with some textures?

What do you think about it?

-hans-

[Flypaper]

Nice improvement! It looks much better now that you moved that keylight up! I look forward to your future progressions, and good luck in your contest!

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