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hbetter

I like this image a lot because of the diversity of light you were able to capture. Through this medium, you described the city. Great use of color, shadows and depth!

matthewbannister

This image is very successful, I just wish there was slightly more interesting subject matter. However, it is composed well and looks photographic. I would have left out the street light poking in from the right.

Lon

The lighting and textures are all very successful. Specifically, the lighting inside the buildings is varied and well done. The sky choice for the scene bothers me. You have achieved "magic hour" everywhere else, but the backdrop appears more from high noon. I wish we could see the top of our hero building on the left.

ehanson

This image has a slightly conflicted feel to it, not sure if it is going for illustration or photorealism. I believe the signage is too luminescent for the time of day, and the distant face sign needs more depth cueing, as the building has. Good detail and feel however.

Arnold Gallardo

This is an effective image. You have captured the proper dominant lighting, balanced color palette and an amazing amount of detail in both modeling as well as in texturing.

The only element here that's a bit distracting is the uniform blue sky which betrays the dusk setting. This remidns me a lot of Manhattan after 4pm during summer. Interestingly upon closer inspection it could well be somewhere in midtown. I like the attention to details on your roadway markings which is fairly convincing in their uneveness and randomness in the dirt/tire mark placement. There is certainly a mood present in this rendering although a bit cold than warm.

There are some problems in your traffic signage since they resemble but not copy the exact lighting and traffic infrastructure in an urban city. There is a texture map horizontal stretching in your 'no commercial traffic' sign. Nice touch though since you do actually see those signs in the city (Manhattan).

The lower roadway foreground part however could be lightened up a bit just to open those areas more. If this was captured with film those areas will have more visible lighter details on them. Overall however it is a very effective and successful image.

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yiran

thanks Judges and everybody very much
I have changed it a little

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/attach...achmentid=6981

yiran

sorry
this one

http://www.cgarchitect.com/vb/attach...achmentid=6982

Lon

Thanks for the new sky. It's a marked improvement.

Arnold Gallardo

Ahh the new sky certainly is better however I noticed you did add some small elemnts as well as alter others. There is now the lost of the vanishing perspective on the street as it goes to the right. On the original you had this street go down the block but now it is covered with new signage specially of the 'new girl' covering the residential Neogothic building. You might want to know that zoning boards as well as community boards will not allow covering windows with billboards in real life in most US cities. Also the loss of the copula on the right side being covered with a new signage makes the piece crowded along with the new cropping. It is very nice to see however that you've lightened some areas specially of the road and the sidewalks.

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Arnold Gallardo
Visual Content Creator
Technical Writer

Author:'3D Lighting: History,Concepts
and Techniques'