The swimming-pool

[mcz]

A new scene (also with DAZ Studio, Blender and LuxRender).
You can see it here:
The swimming-pool

[lempour]

umm, girls by the pool
Nice composition. I'm not sure if this was the intention, but except the ivy with huge leaves and the pool water it looks like from blender internal renderer. Maybe is because of the materials or I don't know. This scene has quite a potential, the materials setup screams for more care.

regards,
lam

[mcz]

In effect it was made for Blender (and it loook, at least for me, better when rendered with the Blender internal motor).
For LuxRender I put the too girls, but I changed nothing else (except the null material for the ivy thing).

[Carbonflux]

I love how you are finding a painterly way to use luxrender, also you are producing work fast because of it, this image really does look like a painting to me but has that solid flow of light you might not get with a conventional rendering eng. I find your work very interesting and I so very glad you are trying to do art and not get stuck in "does it look real mode." Thank you for sharing this.

[Carbonflux]

I thought I needed to add to this because its important, I keep thinking of the work of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hockney when I look at this piece, for example his piece A Bigger Splash, 1967. Acrylic on canvas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hockn ... Splash.jpg and while wikipedia does not show this some of his other work, his empty pool thing for example makes me want to refer to this piece in the same way romantic era composers might use a melodic element from a prior movement. this girls by the pool piece is important, its very "LA," and tho one might think me insane in the context of the CG community as it stands right now I submit this is in a odd way contextually a deeply important piece of dam good art, please think about it if you have the time etc...

[MadSwede]

Nice setup and composition. I've heard of beach-volley but never pool-ditto.

If you're aiming for realism (which of course, isn't necessarily the case) you should adjust the scale of the girls. Compared to the chairs they seem...quite large. Adjusting that, and improving the materials for the foliage would make this really great!

[Bliz]

maybe they are amazonian giant women?

my main crit. would be that the foliage on the tree isn't very realistic. It looks quite plasticky.