Nature series are superb and other environments. I have less belief to
the interior ones and CG ones are just pointless. Those you can do
yourself with ease and result will be much better.
For photo studio environment these guys have some very nice collections,
can be also a great inspiration to do your own:
http://www.hdristudio.com/index.html
-Tony
Kris Rivel wrote:
Well I can only speak on behalf of the "Extreme High Res" and standard
"Sky" libraries. I found them very useful on several jobs where
creating or shooting our own HDRI was out of the question. If you
have the time and money though, its worth making your own with a
proper setup. I can highly recommend the guys at EPOP
(http://www.epop.com/). They use one of those great Spheron cameras
and they created stunning HDRI images for me in the past.
Kris
Andy Jones wrote:
Yeah, I suppose we have too, though we've had just as much luck just
browsing through Turbo Squid. But these exr's, specifically, are
pretty weak, I think.
-Andy
Joe Laffey wrote:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Andy Jones wrote:
This is just an FYI for anyone who doesn't want to waste $125 or
so. This is now the third time one of our project leads has
decided to buy a package of Dosch HDRI environment maps for a
project. We now own skies, radiant skies, and industrial
reflections. Of these, it's really obvious that radiant skies and
industrial reflections are just CG renders of poorly-constructed
environments. In the industrial reflections, there are, for
example, completely black materials (that don't ever change color
no matter what exposure you use). And none of the interior
lighting re-exposes in any sort of reasonable way. And the clouds
in the radiant skies are really stupid-looking hand-painted chicken
scratches. The regular "skies" package is not as bad, but I
wouldn't say I'm particularly impressed by it, either. Anyway, just
a heads-up about a lame product. For interiors at least, just save
yourself some money and make your own environment maps of your
scenes... If you don't have a scene, just throw some cubes in there
-- that's all Dosch did.
FWIW, I have gotten some models from Dosch that were more than
adequate for the price. So noth everything they have is lame. BUt,
like anything caveat emptor.
--
Joe Laffey | Visual Effects for Film and Video
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