Endless Street - General Discussion

https://youtu.be/4YWKqUlHd-M?t=136 "The combines had a very problem dealing with over population in further south places once they conquered the earth, how they dealt with it ? Well they didn't give everyone the blue clothing and they made big apartments....Very big apartments" If you're interested in more of my work checkout my da page: https://redline2311.deviantart.com/ Sometmes i stream my scenebuilding sessions you can check out for those on my youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/GTAMyth2311 Special thanks to Vixotar for providing these amazing buildings! Thanks for stoping by and have a nice day! https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/285660/c784dfb2-2868-4baa-bf71-c56f22cc67ff/Street.jpg

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Thank you very much, im glad you like those!

While this is good, I would've tried to capture more of the bottom or captured more of the depth of the crowd going into the distance. Basically, I would've kept the angle the same, just captured more in the lower street level.

Thank you! What i wanted to do with this scene was to focus more on the buildings and remove ground all together, i usually spend bunch of time just perfecting terrain and ground so i thought this would make for a nice break, i really wanted the main focus to be on the arhitecture

I feel like the image is centered too far up, as Crazy Knife said, and I also feel like the crowd lacks color in terms of lighting-- they're all lit with soft, darkened white from the front, and harsh white rimlighting when there's absolute helpings of colorful lighting all around them. A scene like this should be moody and dripping and oozing with color and neon, but here it's just sort of... splashes of neon, and then stark white and soft blue elsewhere. It doesn't really create a mood, or sink the atmosphere in, it just makes it look sort of 'huh, this is a day in Cyber Town.'

Thaks for the critique but as i said earlier it was a design choice to have camera more up, the whole picture was made around that composition as for the lighting, i really watched out to lit the characthers precise, leave some of them in the dark if they are far from lights while lit the rest up if they are closer to the neon lights as for the mood i didn't wanted to make it dark, it was supposed to be set in a cloudy daylight, its just the idea i had floating for a while but once again thank you for the critique!

I see what they're saying but I quite like the angle you chose. Instead of viewing an endless crowd you used the architecture at the end to sort of insinuate that endlessness. Plus with the birds on top of the row of architecture I feel like that's evidence to my point a little bit. I do think with some of the neon signs maybe the people around could've reflected those colors a bit more, but I am a fan of what you went with. Is the bright white rimlight supposed to represent the "endlessness" of the street or is it just a light(s) coming from that part?

I am glad you like it! And you couldn't put it any better, the arhitecture here was the main focus, with the crowd coming to play very late in the process, i put them there just to fill the composition some of the rim lights were coming from the part, while some of them were supposed to show the endlessness, sort of a effect i played with

Well that was the first thing I thought of when I saw that bright light so imo it paid off. Well done.

Atlas2311 posted: Thanks for the critique but as i said earlier it was a design choice to have camera more up, the whole picture was made around that composition as for the lighting, i really watched out to lit the characters precise, leave some of them in the dark if they are far from lights while lit the rest up if they are closer to the neon lights, i looked at bunch of reference photos with neon lights and how they react, i didn't wanted all of the people just colored with the random neon lights as for the mood i didn't wanted to make it dark, it was supposed to be set in a cloudy daylight, its just the idea i had floating for a while, its supposed to be a day in sort of a cyber town but once again thank you for the critique! I'm going to level with you: I'm not going to tell you what to create, but saying 'Thanks, but I intended it like X' is usually a sign that you honestly didn't actually pay heed to the criticism. Might be fine in some circumstances (I'm not going to make a judgement call here -- I don't know you and I'm biased by having given criticism to the image) but falling into a habit of that is a very bad mentality, especially if you want your works to get acclaim. If you're doing it for yourself and don't care about criticism, then sure, by all means, but keep in mind that if you really want to improve for an audience, then you need to take stuff on board sometime. Otherwise you'll just be spinning your wheels. Again, no reflection on you, no calls made here, but I've seen that sort of behaviour before, and I used to be in that rut for a while myself, and it led to nothing good.