Night Painting

#1

Looking for suggestions to finish up this day for night painting before it goes into compositing. Any suggestions to help it out?

#2

looking good, maybe some moon’s keylight from right hitting some walls would help getting rid of the flat buildings and shapes, lights color variation and values, make some brighter and some darker, some more yellow/orange other yellow /green , street light should affect the surroundings , some really far city lights just to make the image look more complex and real

#3

Thanks for the tips Jaime. I will update soon and re-post. Really appreciate the feedback.

#4

Here is the update. Reworked the things you mentioned as well as some other things. Reduced the floor shine too and added some shadows from the balstrudes.

#5

Here is the final I ended up with. Added another plant to break the symetry and added shadows from the moon.

#6

looks a lot better than before, glad you amended this image and it has improved. Adding the pot plant is a good way to break the symmetry, better than my previous suggestion to you.

It has turned into a nice magical scene, I can even hear the music from the cafe below and smell the olives, good job. This so like a traditional matte from the 30s-50s the golden era of invisible matte.

Looking forward to seeing more of your work.

All the best

Rich

#7

Thanks Rockerhopper. I agree, I think the pot makes the image feel much better. Thanks for the crits and suggestions along the way, as always they are very helpful and lead to a better product.

#8

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