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Hi all,

My first post here, even though I have been visiting the forums every so often. I just picked up Octane earlier this year after watching the movie Elysium and being inspired all the amazing stuff that people are posting here as well!

I made these few months back, modeled in Blender and rendered in Octane, PS for post processing. I tried to achieve a certain mood in the pictures but in the end they ended up looking a bit...odd. Eitherway, I would very much like to have some feedback to be able to take a step (leap!) forward next time. Cheers!

Pappus

Texturing and lighting is good in my opinion. Especially the Living room is nice. The depth of field makes it look like puppet toys though. From what I know this "tiltshift" like effect where u have strong DOF in the front and back only appears on small scales. Well i guess somebody with more technical knowledge can explain it better but i guess u have already seen one of that fancy clips where they shoot a city from an upward angle and put a tiltshift effect on it so that it looks like a miniature thing. Thats what happens in your images.

Hi Heelie,

I actually wasn't aware of tilt-sifting before you mentioned it. So thank you!

Pappus

I agree, the texturing and lighting do look good. In your first image, the grass looks too green to me. Just bit oversaturated, but this might be the camera filter you used. Also, I'd add some slight displacement to the white tile on the right, just enough so the light catches on the highlights and keeps it from being washed out. Overall, these are looking good.

Hi Bendbox,

The grass was actually oversaturated in post-process, i wanted it to 'pop-out'. And yes, displacement should be great!

Pappus