My Fountain

[kaze369]

just updated my portfolio site with the new piece.

[turtlepaste]

Although the water effect is cool, I think you should add a few shots on your site that are without it. The shots currently on your site lose the nice texture work you did, which is a shame. Overall I think you do a really nice job! The grittiness of this really comes through, and the little details on the bowls? I guess you would call them, are great.

[Perfect_Storm]

The water doesn't make any sence. As you can see on the photo, only a few water drops are dropping from the 4 bottom buckets. Your fountain looks like it is floaded with water at the moment. I'd sugest you remove your water completely, only adding it inside the buckets. Add small planes with water drops (Or small waterfalls, but not as much as yours right now ) on the side.
It doesn't make sence because the top is filled by less water then the bottom is loosing.

What I also dislike is the difference in noise between the middle pillar and the buckets. It seems to me that either your buckets have more UV space, or you just payed more attention to them. The big noise on the pillar looks pretty bad.
The same goes for the bottom part, which is way too small scaled on the UV. I'd really suggest you to add a checker on your model, and try to even the amount of UV space for each part. Even though you won't see the bottom that good because of the water, I'd still think you need to even everything out.

Just my 2 cents on the model

[kaze369]

Here is the final version of my fountain. this is also updated on my site as well. You can see an image without the water on my portfolio site.
It's time to move on.