Thanks Phil!
Quick question: Is the lighting in my scene too harsh for accurate critquing? I was looking over my posts and realised it may be a bit too bright.
:eek:
And I was right! The doctor said “Rest, liquids, panadol!”. I think I’m on the mend, but I still don’t feel too good, so back to bed for me!
:wavey:
hey erilaz, I wouldn’t have said the lighting was too harsh. you could try a GI render, seems to be the standard these days, especially with all the new render engines that are out and about.
keep those updates comming, i’ll be watching 
Hey erilaz, hope you get better soon, man. Your BOB and contraption have come along really well! I love the totoise and hare theme. 
The hare character has a ton of personality and would be great to see animated.
If you don’t mind me commenting on your lighting, I don’t think it’s too bright. On the contrary, I was thinking that it could use a little more light. The back light on the rabbit defines his form, but there’s no fill light to give definition to his chest and face, which have a lot of detail and need more contrast to jump out at the viewer.
I would recommend a fill light with something like 50% intensity. Kill the shadows on it if you like so you’re not getting multiple shadows. But get some extra light into the current shadow areas.
I personally think that GI is great, but it’s easy to use it instead of properly lighting a scene and it takes so stinking long.
Anyway, just my 2-cents. But nice work on your BOB! I’m enjoying this one a lot!
Steve
The hares looking good, nearly there I reckon…wish I was…only thing…I reckon (personally) the hare should be sat on top of the turtle as part of the burden…beating him with the stick!!! Or maybe a rope from the turtles neck to the hares left hand???
By the way, you should drink liquids and take panadol!
Thanks guys. I’m feeling a bit better tonight (which means I’m not keeling over anymore!). I’ll try and post some new stuff tommorrow.
phil: Yeah, GI seems to be the rage. I’m sort of against it because it makes the lighting process harder to predict (at my level of experience anyway!), but you’re definately right! I’ll give my brazil renderer beta a try.
Steve: Thanks for the tips. I’ll try them out. I think I forgot to turn off cast shadows on a couple of my lights. I’m glad my hare is coming out the way it was intended! 
neilyB: You’ve guess exactly what I’m going to do. That left hand isn’t hanging out there for no reason, I’m in the process of modelling a tether for the tortoise to the hares hand. 
Oh, and thanks for the medical advice!
First of all: Hope you can finish this one in time - so get better in a hurry!!!
Coming along great and, forgive me, i still think your hare is friggin cute!allthough he does look evil - a bit. Behare of him:) Stardust for u!
Well, the hare isn’t supposed to be toooo evil. Don’t want to scare the children, now do we? Thanks Pit. Here’s a quick render!
Looking harelarious! (i know the joke is over, but that one waqs brilliant!!! what do you mean it was cheap, crap and all together lacking in originality?)
anyway i love what your doing here. Just out of interest is there a story behind the stuff on the turtles back? ie clock…
cheers
Okay, a story behind the stuff hey?
Well, there was a purpose originally, but it’s kind of gotten distorted as things developed.
The basic story behind the items is a surreal link between this hare and the March Hare in Alice in Wonderland (thus the chessboard, the clock, and the books). The cheese I threw in because of the doormouse, and everything else was just things I threw in, mainly because the hare is also a pirate, he has his trusty trident/pitchfork, and tentpoles for camping and making into a crude raft.
Like I said, it kind of got distorted on the way! :hmm:
Geez… that fever I’ve got must be still pretty strong! :surprised
OUCH! That grass looks more dangerous than the meat cleaver I have at home…I reckon some smoothing is needed…loads a polygons! Not sure what software you’re using Erilaz but can’t you render out splines, set the thickness to taper off toward the top, save poly’s???
Otherwise I reckon you’re nearly there, wish I was…lol…and a weekend away means I am not getting much further before the deadline…well…it was the first try for me…and you got 3 pages of crit…:applause: :applause:
What I need is a fever and a few days off work…send us your bug…?
Actually, I probably would have had this finished by now if I hadn’t gotten ill. Believe me, I’ve done very little work on this since getting the bug. Too painful on the head and eyes. I’m kinda peeved that I got it so close to the deadline.
And you’re right about the grass… dang it!
Hi !!! mannnn
i fall in love on your turtllleeeee:love:
but one BIG crit , and i say it for anyone whos use another renderer than max Scanline : you can have better render with scanline, no need brazil…i think you waste some time on that suckin’ bad plug-renderer… simulate Gi with omni in scanline, add DoF and focal blur…you can have great render with this ! and one render takes 1 min…not 1hour :surprised
Very nice rabbit ! give him some food !!! he’s mister bones :rolleyes:
keep it up & finish the scene :wavey:
Manicalavera15: Thanks for the crit, and I agree with you! Brazil is a fine renderer, but I don’t have the time to play around with it to get the lighting I want, so my final renders will most likely be in good old scanline.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how much more detail I’m going to add to my model. I’m still feeling too ill to stare at the screen for more than 20 minutes at a time before having to lie down, and to be honest, if I could do more than that, I’d be back at work and not working on my model anyway!
:annoyed:
I’m hoping to be better by the weekend, so I can at least add some finishing touches on Sunday. Wish me luck! :hmm:
Okay! For those that suggested the need for a “back-breaker”, (Namely Zr0-1 and three), here it is!
In the general them of all things Hare, here’s a doormouse trying to get the cheese!
Kill the grass man…really…ontop of it not being nice it also covers up thework you’ve done on the important bits!
I like the little mouse. So that’s what broke the turtle’s back I like it. I kind of agree about the grass. It sort of takes away more than it adds to the scene. One other question is…Did the rabbit die? It looks in that last pic like it has an angle’s halo around it’s head. 
hehehe
Nice work erilaz. I hope you feel better soon. Thanks again for the congratz cake
Okay, okay! Enough with the grass already! I’ve been frowning at it a lot anyway. I’ll ditch it. Can anyone suggest what I go for instead?
Oh… and the halo? Um… It’s actually something I hid but forgot to delete! It WAS an eye-patch for the hare, but I don’t think he needs it.
Well, I’m braving work this morning (Yes, on a friday morning. Am I nuts???). I’m not feeling my best, but I’ll see how I go.
The only thing I can suggest is that you give the rabbit a much more dynamic pose, like he was trying to drag the turtle/tortise. The mouse is a great touch!