klabund - Good start. Nice idea with the candle. It looks like candle light is leaking into the interior of the robot’s head, might need more shadows. If he gets reflective, reflections of the candle would help. The candle’s wick should stay mostly black and the candle flame might get a little more blue near the base. I think the robot’s eyes could have some shading and candle highlights in them.
wasimattar - Nice image! The robot could use more punchy lighting from the top and sides motivated by those light panels. I don’t think the tire tracks are working yet: I was looking at them at first wondering what kind of funny shadow that was under him before I realized you’re texturing tire tracks on the floor. Some light on the tire treads themselves could help bring attention to the wheels also. I love the subtle shading in some of the background areas such as around the ladder, very organic looking there.
jpm55 - Welcome! That’s a good start! Keep going…
phil-w8 - There are lots of ways to show distance. Move the camera in closer, with a wider field of view, and you get more perspective. Use fog or something to reduce contrast and saturation in the distance. Give some overall variety to the lighting, or else go light-dark-light for constrasting forms stacked on top of eachother. Often the best insights come from finding some reference images you like and studying what happens to the colors and tones in real life.
MartinRomero - That’s great! His head doesn’t look like it’s shaded as well as the rest of him yet, that’s probably a part you’re still doing. Those 4 round lights stuck up on the right side of the ceiling don’t seem to be fully attached or functional, maybe you could move those so they look like they are stuck on a beam? Great textures on the floor. I’m a little confused about where the up-light is coming from on the bottom of his wheels, etc.?
rmejia - Nice work! The idea of the robot liking the panda video is reasonably clear, even if that action is shoved off to the side instead of being focused on. The two background robots are almost hidden though, you need to look for a long time to see those. The TV screens don’t really look like TV screens: maybe some scan-lines or something to make a less perfect picture, or some curvature and reflections on the glass, might help? I don’t know what the white stuff is in front of the ladder on the right.
bshao - Good start. If the set is going to stay that dark, then try to put some glints and reflections and maybe rim light on the robot to help him pop.
giron - Welcome! That’s really good – nice solid scene there! There’s a funny dark edge around the robot’s arms, I don’t know if it’s a compositing problem or the arms just need some rim light. I think you could do more with the light panels, maybe make them even brighter in the center, give some texture or shaping to them, let them cast more illumination out into the scene? The colors in the background are nice. The robot’s body buttons look a little off, maybe because they are darker in the center then the glow forms around them?
UncleEntity - Welcome! Good basic set-up. Keep going with the lighting, try to get some variety and shading and shadows in there!
okazaky - Welcome! That’s a great job!
Synk2 - I can’t answer every Max question, but if you’re missing some walls you might try importing a different file format as the starting point?
-jeremy
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