This is my first render in Thea I done some day ago. I know there are something wrong like water, some texture, etc. but I had not much time to refine it, but I'm quite satisfied on my work. Anyway, I like to receive comments and suggestions about it.



The scene was a good way to study a production workflow with XSI and to learn more about instancing. I'm really impressed by the easiness to build libraries of objects and managing the scene.
All the flowers, plants and also the grass are instanced painted on the ground... despite the scene heavy, Thea seems to be stable and fast enough.

Beautiful scene, great vegetation and renders, only thing I do not like is the water, just does not look right.

this most be rendered from within XSI or did you do some heavy postpro on it! the color seem so natural and there's some blur at places which i think is done afterwards... great scene bro

Thanks!

I agree, the water isn't good, expecially in the 3th image. All the water materials with real settings I used (self made or from Thea Library) was too reflective and the water surface was too blue. This is a particular pool with a cobbles surface completely white and my client didn't like the blue color on it. Anyway, you're right, isn't so good to see.

@Rombout: I used XSI only for base modeling. All the scene composition and materials are made in Thea Studio. After the render I add some post, nothing special, just a little tone and curve correction, a bit of vignetting and no more. The images are a bit blurred due to a noise reduction filter I used, because there are too noise after 40 minutes of cooking.

Here is a comparison between original-retouched image:

Beautiful scene! The blurring appears like a scene out of a dream.

The only thing I feel uncomfortable is the construction of the roof. It seems that the roof beam (Pfette in german) isn't there. The rafters (german: Sparren) are very long.

D'oh!

Isn't there... you're right!
The subject is the garden and the view under the rooftop wasn't expected. It was a picture I added at my pleasure, but I forgot to add more details on the rooftop. I'm feel a bit dumb at this moment...

great toning you did!!!! like the warm feeling a lot. I hardly use sky & environment lighting. Almost always use a ibl with sun

i like the mood, very nice landscape design, light is very important depending on the space and the angle and i think you nailed it with this shots. Model looks very clean too.
My observation is about the water too, did you use displacement? it looks a tad flat on the borders, perhaps the map or precedural scale could be a bit bigger? i love those masonry columns, nice job!

Thanks to all
Nektares, for the water material I used only bump, no displace. The map was too big, I agree. I never liked the water material, i just followed the client's taste.
At the end of this work, the client was very happy... but I don't. So, I decided to spent a bit of my free time to made some corrections on the scene. I followed your suggestions that was very important for me.

Here the results (as ever, with a bit of post)

nice scene, good use of dof and great lighting! (especially the last one)

I would just add something in the sky, now it looks so empty (clouds trails, airplane trails or birds,...)