Environment Design Rocks!

[Amit Dutta]

Hey wasgodx, A couple of points, I think your references could be chosen a little better given your environment. They are maybe a bit too different from each other. You also tried to do a light situation that doesn't exist in your ref which makes it x10 harder. You really have to think about and show the lit side vs the shadow side 'correctly' in order to show form which is why yours appear a bit flat. The light direction has to be consistent, ie come from the same direction otherwise it will look inconsistent, and your light beams are just a single colour over everything which is not the way light behaves in reality. Each object is affected differently by the light.

I am probalby going to talk about how to pick good reference a bit later, but here are some I might have picked depending on the forest you are after. links below image:




http://buzzerg.com/wp-content/uploads/85...per-hd.jpg
http://images.summitpost.org/original/797349.jpg
http://ineluctable.org/ieatfood/blue_rid...arkway.jpg
http://stockarch.com/files/14/04/conifer_forest.jpg