Still: KiNESiS cd cover

[JeffPatton]

Very cool! The only thing that sticks out to me is the turntable / mixer are dry (increase specular?)....But other than that, great job.

[Kubik]

Great work!

[zachgrachan]

i think it would work better without the rain, maybe at night. at least the rain should be less uniform, nothing real is perfect.

[KiFe]

Things that i feel make this image look unrealistic:

the mixer lacks knobs.. MORE KNOBS!

the dude is dj laptop or something? playing on a park bench? give the poor guy a table.

the dude is dj school uniform instead? haha get into character mister!

oh yeah.. and the last minor technicality... usually turntables and a mixer require a plethora of wires and cables to hook em all up together.. specially the mixer... so.. you might want to consider that too,.



GGGGOOOOOOOOOOOOOO DJ SCHOOLYARD!

[Pjanssen]

Cool image, but where are the wires from the turntables to the mixer ?
And I agree that there should be more knobs at the mixer.

[telecaustic]

I might be totally wrong (probably just a bad photo) but his left arm looks like it's broken or dislocated. Plus you can tell the mixer is a comp because it is hovering above his lap, when it should be resting on his lap, and if there is some sort of stand supporting it, make it visible.

I like the concept, but there is no need for 3d models here, I say do an actual photo shoot and have it all be real. Cause this is not believable at all.

[eagle300]

Rain doesn't look natural coming straight down (90 degrees of the ground). rain is too uniform and there is no rain bouncing off the guy adn equipment. Also, that's a TON of hair spray because his hair isn't wet either.

Unless this is a completely touch sensitive mixer, it needs knobs. and wires.

[Kev3D]

First of all, there are some details that I forgot to include. THe idea of the cover was to show that this guy brings practices everywhere, even at school in the rain

folical: thanks

zachgrachan: (refer above)

kife: actual DJ mixers don't have a lot of knobs. School uniform is character, refer above.

Pjanssen: note taken, needs wires

eagle300: note taken about the rain. This guy does wear a lot of hair jel (He was sitting in the rain before it stopped and I dared take my camera out and take some photos)


telecaustic: I see, will fix arm. Umm, how would you like to bring $1000 worth of equipment into the rain for a photoshoot? And anyways, rain doesn't come out with my camera.

[dur23]

Rain look like motion blured noise done in photoshop.

The turntables and mixer have no droplettes of water on them. If its raining they might be a lil more wet;). Plus i don't know if this was intentional or not but theres not a touch of crome or just shiny metal on the turntables and mixer. Something in there has to be a shiny metal:) That and the records themselves have no groves nor specular nor relfection...

Thats all i could come up with


Great compostion so far.....just a couple more elements and you can call it complete ;)

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