Wintermarket

[Svenart]

Hello everybody,

actually I wanted to finish this project as a day version of a big historical marketplace with much more people and activiy next year. But then I tested the wip scene with a new plugin I wrote for saving lightsituations, and I liked the result so much that I decided to create a winter/christmas version of this image.

I wish you all a great christmas and a happy new year!

[richdj]

Gorgeous work... Have great xmas and new year..

Rich

[Animasta]

Very beautiful work there Svenart

[kurv]

Holy cow amazing

[Scazzino]

Nice!
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year!

[ken_g9]

Love the atmosphere!

Merry Christmas!!

[richdj]

Sven, can you give some details about the scene. Are the people simple polys or added in, in post? How many polys were in the scene? details on lighting?

Rich

[Svenart]

thank you all very very much for your feedback

@ richdj: sure

actually I wanted to finish this project as a day version of a big historical marketplace with much more people and activiy next year. But then I tested the wip scene with a new lscript I wrote for saving lightsituations, and I liked it so much that I decided to create a winter/christmas version of this image.

you can see the Wip thread here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthre...?f=43&t=823955

The people are actually lowpoly characters I created a few years ago for a private 3d-game project. The have around 1500-3000 polygons each, most of the are rigged, but I also used a few groups of freezed peoples in the scene.

The Scene contains 3,9 Million polygons,399 Objects and 474 Lights.

For placing all the lights, I wrote a small lscript wich can place the lights onto the polygons of a Object. So you first create one polygon for every light in a building, and save your polys with same name as the object + "_lights". Later, the lscript will automatically load this object and places light on every polygon in your "light object"...

I made the image look very much blue and orange to reach a good cold/warm contrast... Of course I know that this looks not soo real, but my main goal here was a good mood, not realism.

The christmas tree is of course more something like a "joke". The scene represents a fictive town of the 16-17th century.

Specially for this scene I modeled a few new buildings you can see on the right side... Some of them are french (16.-17th century I guess), a few others are german "Backstein-Gotik" buildings from 14-17 th century.

The church is a mix of notre Dame (side), Westmister Abbey (front) and a few german churches.

[Nigel]

Thats a beautiful render, I just love the colour and composition. Well done, and Merry Christmas to you too

[richdj]

Cheers Sven, Much prefer the night scene to the daylight, it gives it that much more feeling to the picture. Id the Lscript the lights2poly on your site?

Rich

[Svenart]

thank you. You can find the script (betaversion) here:

http://www.newtek.com/forums/showthread.php?t=104600

The other script will be released in a few days.

[xtrm3d]

very nice picture .. impressive amount of details ..

[warrenwc]

Me too!
I Love the lighting & the shaped windows.

[Itways]

Sweet!!
beautiful job done there

Hkey

[HappyMantis]

Excellent work! it remind me the cathedral of Strasbourg isn't it?