amer abidi

K Chutti..

i personally think your image is one of the best coloured, painted AND composited among all the entries! I mean i love the suttle orange light wash on your buildings..the cliffs and rocks..the water.. the sky, it's very well put together! and i also like the bird! =) nice touch!

i guess you've realized by now how anal i can be when it comes to design though.. so here it comes! =)

As well composited an image it is, i really think your building is more of an 'airpor control tower', or 'office buiding'.. i mean i really like how you started off... the base is magnificent., but i dont understand the helipad looking floor..nor the 13 storey office buliding next door...and most of all, i dont understand the orientation.. looks good in image, but will visitors really feel as if their in the lighthouse's presence?

again, EXELLENT image, just not feelin the warmth, intimacy nor relation of design with lighthouse and it's history..

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chutti

Thanks Everyone for your valuable comments. learned a lot.
Cheers...

am34012

Its a nice and clean rendering, the atmosphere is refreshing sunset or early sunrise. Overall I don't think you need to change much, its pretty much ready for animation!

CHE

Mohammed,

I am not sure about the design but I think that you have rendered it successfully. I like the overall lighting and mood. The sky is beautiful; the gradient of colors is very pleasant. I really like the work you put into the matte painting of the terrain. It is not seamless but it looks believable. The composition is almost there. You could have move the camera forward a bit more to show more of the tower and less sky. I do not like the bird in the foreground at all. It doesn't help your composition, it looks out of scale and it makes the tower seem tiny.

Good luck with your animation!

E

Adrian Bold

Ok, probably the nicest render to date, however the actual design intent of a visitor centre remains to be told. The focal length of your perspective seems too drawn out, far too much for an exterior shot from the water anyway, the way its distorting your centre's shape it almost looks fisheye (which would be ok) but i can tell its not meant to be. Ok use of lighting, it would be great for some written blurb as to how you think you've addressed a visitor centre; as in:
road/ped access,
parking,
disabled access,
historical intent, relationship to the tower
environmental sensitivity
local requirements addressed.

Good luck with ani.

RJL

Mohammed, your image is reminiscent of concept art for a movie, although I have to be honest - I brought it into Photoshop and removed the bird and loved it 10x more. I think the birds in the distance are a nice touch but you have to think hard about making entourage so prominent.

I like that you've paid so much attention to color as a complement to the composition. The image has a nice left to right and right to left feel to it and the color gradation is a big reason for that. It's also nice that you've taken great care to articulate the cliff and water, and where they meet.

As for the design, there's nothing that really grabs me. I see interesting elements but they're not unified in any way. I think that looking at ways to use lighting to make elements pop, like the bridge for example, would be worthwhile.

Lots of potential and a very nice image. Looking forward to the animation.

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buno

Congratulation

siamsadman

Beautiful work,

You make us proud.

soldier

Hi Mohammed,

I think the "feet" of the bridge ( the grey thing, in the middle ) of the bridge, doesnt fit to your different design style in the image like the architecure of the bridge or the building. it looks too mechanical, like it is build of metal and not concrete.

greetz, soldier