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It's my digital watch, huge chunk of plastic and metal but cool never the less

very nice. Maybe the watch could have the back light turned on for some glow effect.

steveps3 wrote:very nice. Maybe the watch could have the back light turned on for some glow effect.

It actually does have a backlight turned on XD. It's kind of faint but unless I give it a almost dark environment, it won't have that "glow" effect.

very good model and render. Very realistic !

ROUBAL wrote:very good model and render. Very realistic !

Hi Roubal, I've seen a lot of your renders over the past on this forum. You are on of the veterans of Octane render. Would you mind give me some crit? It can always be better right? And thanks for your complement. I think I'm really weak at presenting my model.

Thank you ! Maybe the model would desserve a better lighting. I mean a classical three points lighting, with a rim effect given by a light source behind the watch. You could try to add some emitting planes.

Obviously, the scene will look much brighter, and you will lose the slight glow effect of the LCD display...

Currently, the sceene looks like a bit dull because I think you used only a HDR environment lighting, or maybe even a LDR image as light source...

The material on which the watch is set could be also made different. Keep some glossyness for a slight reflection, but make the material more solid, like wood or brushed aluminium...

Maybe you could also play with the composition, by adding a second smaller and simpler object, just to make a counterweight to the watch (a key, for example, or why not a small insect, like an ant or a ladybug looking at the watch ?), using the rule of third to place the smaller object on a lower force point on the diagonal, on the left, or a background image with a bit less DOF blur, and the sun used as counterweight point...

Just some ideas...

ROUBAL wrote:Thank you ! Maybe the model would desserve a better lighting. I mean a classical three points lighting, with a rim effect given by a light source behind the watch. You could try to add some emitting planes.

Obviously, the scene will look much brighter, and you will lose the slight glow effect of the LCD display...

Currently, the sceene looks like a bit dull because I think you used only a HDR environment lighting, or maybe even a LDR image as light source...

The material on which the watch is set could be also made different. Keep some glossyness for a slight reflection, but make the material more solid, like wood or brushed aluminium...

Maybe you could also play with the composition, by adding a second smaller and simpler object, just to make a counterweight to the watch (a key, for example, or why not a small insect, like an ant or a ladybug looking at the watch ?), using the rule of third to place the smaller object on a lower force point on the diagonal, on the left, or a background image with a bit less DOF blur, and the sun used as counterweight point...

Just some ideas...

Oh thank you so much for all your ideas. Should help me bringing this piece to a higher level.

After quite of few trial and error over my new concept, I finally arrived at this. Any suggestions or crits are welcome. Thanks in advance.

Very nice !
I like the first one.

Second one:
Maybe you should move the sun a bit more to the left to get some reflections of it on the glass of the watch.

Edit:
Maybe some waterdrops on the watch could look nice

Kind regards
Alain

First one is pretty mint!!!