[bullet_evader]

i like it, especially the lightning on the floor.

did you turn smooth surfaces on to the bed and the night-table?
if yes, you might turn it off for better results. Or maybe lower the specularity.

[Tiago2]

I messed with lightwave once. The thing I liked was sasquash or was it saslite... ermm. well lightwave isn't my thing.

Looking good priimate. I like your cartoony feel too. I guess thats your style huh? Considering last compition had the same feel to it. Anyway, keep the wips flowing :attn:

[scrdude55555]

Very nice work, my only sugestion is try to get a little more light, because it's kinda hard to see.

[priimate]

Hi All! Cheers for the feedback!

Yeah, I hit smooth surfaces for some of the furniture to quickly see if the specular highlights were showing up, before going back and re-naming various areas for smooth or flat finishes. There are also no textures on my last wips - all the objects are multi-coloured for easy surface ID, but the blue light kills off a lot of the colour.

As far as styling goes, I hadn't really thought too much about it. This pic probably won't be as cartoony as the last comp. (or at least I hope not! - outside of anime, not many cartoon characters inspire a real feeling of fear or loathing!) I think the final lighting will give it a less cartoony feel as well because you will only see a bit of the geometry due to the shadows.

Started adding basic textures, I'm still debating carpet or hard wood flooring - might go with wood so I can add some rugs to give the scene more detail. Just a white 100% point light on the ceiling so I can see actual texture colours while i'm working.

Cheers! priimate.

[equinox]

looking real nice man only crit is about the walls i like the texture patern but around the edges it seem as if the wall pulls out like a padded cell or pillow? keep it up man as far as what you wanna do with the floor i would too so you can break away from all the color get some relects going an all that good stuff.

[bullet_evader]

What's that shadow on the floor from the door to the lower right part of the image?

[priimate]

Hi guys!

@ equinox: I think it's a bit of an optical illusion (I noticed it too!). I applied a ambient occlusion shader to the walls to add a little dirt in the joins. That, combined with the pattern on the wallpaper makes it look a little odd - they kinda clash in a funny way.

@ Bullet_Evader: Originally the floor poly terminated across the front face of the door, with a second poly that filled the space directly under the door (a result of Booleaning the door out of the wall). I merged those two polys as part of "house-keeping" the scene. The resulting artifact only appears when Saslite renders the carpet - not with the hard wood floor that I think i'll use.

Both these things are results of toying around with settings, so they'll definately not be present later on!

Cheers Guys!

priimate.

[equinox]

that would be a good tutorial on just how to use shaders and what each one of them do.i have no clue lol

[odeone]

I'd go for the wooden floor as carpet adds that plush, warm type of feeling.

Nice work so far.