nope, I think this background scene will do

The background looks great to me! Very good model and render Nice work.

hehe, thanks. If i do get the other background up, I wont change the original. Ill maybe post it as a step in the SBS or something

Fantastic!!

Buddy, you're more maniac than me !! You've created all that tree for few branches? And you rendered all those houses and trees for a DOF background ?

Congratulations, a high vote from me !

Very nice job on the tree

Thanks!.
Yes, the tree is basically only one branch, but every branch is modified by the axis and scaled.
When it comes to the DOF background... Personally I'm not fan of background images. Sometimes a cool background image makes the impact of the vote result and in my opinion, that's not entirely honest. So I make my own, even if its a lot of work just to make a small detail. After all, that's whats 3d modeling is all about

good work!

That is one long climb!
Nice work and details, love the background, the band around the tree to hold the roof and especially the flag! The rough construction of the boards is also cool.

great work author...look very realistic to me...well done

Congrats awesome work

congrats looking forward to see more of your work..

Thanks for great comments and support!

upgraded some details on the buildings in the background. Also working on a decent sky map

Wonderful !
Have you tried to apply a Noise modifier to slum houses ? Look too perfect geometric for a slum. Noise modifier (not abusive) add realism to a wall or ceiling .

Thanks. Ive been looking for some way to improve the realism, and I will do something about that

Looks good. If those trees & buildings are from external sources, you should add them, if not, how did you do the palm trees, is there a puggin or smth?

They are made by hand and by me. Ok, I'll put it up in the sbs

Nice, thanks 4 the SBS author!

Fantastic work author...Slum looks so realistic...this entry is top notch...very well done

fantastic

fantastic

the graffiti was an excellent touch! good luck author! i'd also like to say that the details on the buildings and the construction of them are outstanding!!

Nice details! I really need to get into this 3D stuff. GL!

Congrats!

very good.

Excellent! what software did you use?

I used 3ds max

Oh, that's so gross.

Ha Ha - Love it!

ewwwww.....intellegent selection.

Nice work...gl

lol, first and second place. Thanks guys

Congrats first and second, really well done

Congrats for your first place!

Congratulations for 1st, well deserved, great render.

LOL.. congrats..

Great render! Excellent concept too, just remember to get the sbs posted

Good luck!

Thanks! SBS is up

Great concept, VERY well done and humorous! Good work.

I love the way the canon looks in step 9, a shame that some of the effect is lost in the bright daylight. Extra points for humor!

Grass is made with VRay hair suppose. Try to assign an original grass picture as bitmap color. This add more color variation and make it more natural.
Very nice and clean modelling, good luck.

Billyboy: Indeed it is, but I think I'll leave it alone. The rendering process made my computer cry for about 3 hours while rendering that fur

very nice work author...good luck

And also congrats for your second place!

I'll make a SBS as soon as possible. No time for it right now

The light delineation on the table and the helicopter aren't quite right. If the light is that strong coming through the window, the shadows need to be deeper. Mainly it's the front edge of the table that visually bothers me the most, it looks brown rather than shadow gray...Being white, it shouldn't have any tint in shadow.

Example photos :
http://everystockphoto.s3.amazonaws.com/globes_light_shows_326304_o.jpg
http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=2102479
http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=226347
http://www.everystockphoto.com/photo.php?imageId=4598972

very nice work author and great idea...extra points for that...best of luck

Great idea.

Made a SBS

MossyB, I understand what you mean, but the table is not all white. its wood, but appear white as the sunlight hits it. The shadow have no tint at all, so the true color of the table is revealed in the shadow.

I do have tint in the daylight light source though. White with about 5% blue in it.

Ty for constructive comments!

Fantastic! Overall looks great, but the simulation of a large f-stop is throwing everything off. The blur almost looks like it was added in after the render, rather than being part of it. I only say this because the face of the chair is sharp, while the edge is blurry. Also the edge of the box seems to blend into the background, as if it were masked then blurred. Oh, and you forgot to blur the cabinets behind the chair

Secretsather, I made the blur in photoshop since I not yet handle perspective blur in 3Ds max yet. Ive been working on it, but it takes very very long time to render. I updated the picture, but hopefully with 3D render blur.

btw, simulation of a large f-stop? explain

The aperture on a camera is what determines the amount of blur and depth of field (the area in which an object is in focus) and is measured in f-stops. A good understanding of depth of field (Google it) will allow you to better understand what should be blurred, how much blur, and when to blur. I don't know anything about 3ds, so someone else would have to confirm, but you should have a setting on the camera that allows you to adjust the f-stop; a close up model with an f-stop of 2.8 would produce the effect that looks ultra real, and may even reduce your rendering times as well.

Alternatively, if 3ds does not have such settings, you may render the background, blur it in photoshop, then render the foreground with a transparent background and overlay it on top of the image you just blurred.