BmB said:
There's a difference between shading and light source. You can still shade it the same way and have a different source for the light.
Are you serious? Shading is directly affected by position and intensity of light and shape. You couldn't shade it the same way as the image you posted and have the light source in a direction that would illuminate the whole front of the city. You also have to take into account ambient light. The shot you posted the city is higher above the clouds than in the video. All these things have to be taken into account when calculating how the shading of an object should be.
BmB said:
Vaderios' renders do a good job of showing that "deep gradings" don't occur unless the object in question is close to being paper thin. The transition phase from light to dark has a roughly fixed depth based on the shape and type of material.
To say that because the video shot matte doesn't have the deep shading as the picture so it must be paper thin is just plain wrong. Vaderios has even proved this with his renders posted and these are 3D models not "paper thin" as you like to put it.
BmB said:
First, it seems to suffer from orange-itis, which is to say many films these days - particularly Star Wars Episodes II and III are guilty - suffer from an apparent inability to contain other colours than a deep, brilliant orange. It's almost monochromatic, and somewhat out of tune with the generally more natural coloration of the OT. The clouds are largely fine, but the falcon and the city itself should probably show more of their natural colour rather than being almost chameleon like in their pigmentation.ast.
Maybe you should go back and re-watch the original because that certainly doesn't have natural colouring because of the heavy all over colour filtering done to it.
BmB said:
And I know it's unfinished. However I also know that "unfinished" may also mean "close to final look" and figured any criticism would still be relevant to the parts you hadn't changed.
If it was close to the final look then i wouldn't have wrote this then would i...
It still has a lot of work left to be done to it.....