Desert Body Shop - Page 2 - 3DAllusions

Rod · #11 (**permalink**) 02-20-2008, 11:46 PM

you guys are the boss!!! cant wait to buy you'll a beer sometime to say THANKS, this beats the heck out of the trial and error I'm so used to

Rod · #12 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 01:51 AM

http://www.blurringreality.com/images/wosm-g5.png

This is where I've taken this so far...... any more ideas?

TheAllusionist · #13 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 02:54 AM

Pretty darn good, has a late afternoon feel to it. I am not a enamoured with the pavement, it almost looks like wet concrete and not really asphalt, the bright red car is an attention getter, I would use a more subdued color for it. All in all though it is coming along nicely good work!

d.sign · #14 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 11:11 AM

Well, the house itself looking pretty good.
One thing though, the valleys of the roofs look a bit unresolved... perhaps you should make some sort of seam for them, now it looks like you just intersected the roofs...
You could add a profile on it, like inversed profile of the ridge...
Foreground still need some work, but that could be done in post work... and I am still not sure about those small trees by the house...
take a look at those
ambientLight
You can download free sample to see...

Rod · #15 (**permalink**) 03-02-2008, 01:54 PM

Thanks guys for the look see. Working on your observations. D, regarding the red maples in the front of the bldg. I was rather happy with them and I am wondering what it is that you see that I'm overlooking. They are onyx and it was my desire to focus a bit on the front door and add some color to an otherwise very green image. Bear with me if you please, my artistic background is poor at best, but my wife pointed out the rule of using odd numbers therefore the 3 maples. What are the conventions that one should use when planning landscaping? I'd really like to take some classes and will be doing so when I can get some time, but this is a presentation that happens in just a couple of days. Your comments about the valley flashing was insightful and they have been added and helps a lot. Thanks again....

d.sign · #16 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 12:18 AM

Actually, your trees look quite good...
I am a bit picky here and just think that size is not appropriate to that type of tree... but I could be wrong... there is definitely a red maple that is of smaller size, Japan is the land of origin...
I was just pointing to you those special types of trees, small architectural trees used in situations similar to yours...
That is all...

Rod · #17 (**permalink**) 03-03-2008, 01:29 AM

Thanks D.sign, I've found that there are several sizes of red maples, my wife wants to plant a few in our yard and we've been visiting the local nursery here on a regular basis. We have found that one variety the acer rubrum grows as high as 10 meters and I fashioned mine to emulate these. They aren't ase red as many of them, more of a rust color. We can't grow them in our yard due to the alkali soils we have. Daggon volcanoes spewing out ash in years gone by. We planted two of the tiny varietys a couple of years ago in a special contained area with a membrane to keep the alkali from leeching into the soil that I constructed for them, and it turns out that rabbits consider them to be great salads. BTW, thanks for the link, and your help, and your nice remarks. If I am lucky enough to sell this project on Tuesday I will certainly be hiring a landscape architect to design the vegs on the site.