I like the format. The architecture render is great, but it also feels like a completely different scene compared to the original in my opinion. the forest scene is a massive improvement which conveys what the original tried to convey.

I think the second render was nice, and you changed it into a completely different scene, which was also good but had a completely different vibe. I like the lighting in the original more and also the original sofa looked good in my opinion.

Hey guys the first image was mine and the camera angle supposed to be a drone shot but he really improved it amazing. Thanks a lot Andrew ❤

For the second render, you changed it from a warm and welcoming, casual photo of a living room to a cold and detatched, industrial room instead. The first version, with the scattered books and macbook on the coffee table, the deep soft sofa, and occupied shelving unit made it feel real and homely. It felt warm and somewhere where you would feel comfortable collapsing after a long day of work. The second version felt cold and bright, and with the concrete floor and organised table, it felt like somewhere you might host an interview in a shirt and slacks. Instead of feeling like somewhere down to earth and the home of a middle class 20 year old female english teacher, it felt like a brutalistic take on a second house/apartment for a 30 year old male CEO or IT specialist. I'm personally not a fan, I thought the original version felt far more welcoming than the second. It didn't feel like a fix, but more you took the idea of the apartment-esque window and ran with it. Instead of changing that, I would've altered the original window to something with fewer, larger panes, with some frosting at the bottom, a dog's water and food bowls with some kibble on the floor, a slight camera rotate to the right like you did, but less so as to not get rid of the bookshelf from the frame. I would've possibly changed the concrete walls to something more inviting like an eggshell paint. Additionally, you could replace the concrete with the eggshell paint and put a green/blue floral wallpaper behind the TV.

I don't agree with all the changes, but I really like hearing about the thought process. Always good to take a photo with a purpose.

great format! would love to see more

I think you are not "fixing" these renders, i think you are changing them based on the concept of the author. It is a great format anyway and changing them so much is useful because you can give us a lot of tips! Please do not stop! I found this as useful as the first blender tutorial i watched, thank you Andrew.

The moment when he switched lighting in the 3rd render was breathtaking.

I feel the original version of the apartment had a lot more warm tones, and the top-view of the abandoned scene had a post-apocalyptic videogame vibe to it that I like. But I do agree with the changes to the car scene.

I really like the idea of this video and there are some great tips and tricks in there. The only thing that botherd me, is that you didn't fix the first two images, but made them entirely your own. Especially the first one is now completly different. I would love to see you fix renders without changing every Model in the scene, but by tricks with ligthing and composition of the image. Things like the "gunk" on the water or the lighting from the back in the third image were the real eye openers for me.

I love this format, i definitely want to see more of it! I feel like the second artist was going for something more homely and warm rather than something wealthy and industrial. I think a series like this should be more about bringing the artist's vision to life rather than forcing your own onto it. That's just my opinion tho!

I tend to agree with a lot of the other feedback about sticking to the vision of the original, but otherwise I would absolutely love to see more of these videos. Perhaps you could also do different challenges for yourself (i.e., can't change the POV angle, have to use the original assets in the render, etc.) just to keep it interesting.

Hey guys I'm Kade the one that made the 3rd image the forest render. This video concept is awesome and would love to see more. I feel like I'm stumbling through with a lot of uncertainty with what I'm creating and I will hear concepts that I feel i understand and will implement them and go "that looks good" but I feel like I'm missing things but I just can't put my thumb on it. With all these renders I thought they looked good and then your additions took them to the next level that I've been trying to figure out. And seeing what goes in to that process is so helpful. Thank you for the critique Andrew!

The forest scene fix was the best IMO, it really improved the final image a lot.

For the 2nd Render (The interior) I liked the vibe of the original one way better. The original one just looked like the kinda place that I would want to live in. Maybe the view out the window drastically changes the appeal of the place. I'd rather change the window than make it an apartment.

I love this format. It not only helps artists working in 3D but it also can help other artists working on illustrations, photo-compositions etc. It's one thing to know how to make things, it is another to figure out how to present it the best way possible.

I think you'd have kept the spirit of the first image more if you had made it properly isometric, like I thought the original creator tried to achieve. In general what would add to these videos imho is more of an explanation from the creator about what they tried to achieve (like the forest render). This way you could help them achieve that goal better instead of just creating what you like yourself more. Just to make it a bit more specific. Very informative video nonetheless!

I actually really liked the camera angle in the first image, I don't really consider changing that fixing it. Though the rest was definitely really good work and the final render looks great!

This is probably THE best format possible to learn from. As a beginner these are mistakes we would probably all make and having specific pointers like this is amazing

I really love the results from images 1-3-4, you really bumped it. The forest lake is just gorgeous. Thanks for the class and also congrats to the original creators, they were not that far off. I'm eager to see what they come up with next.

I would love to see this series continue, but one thing I would try to do is have the original creator includes notes on why they made certain details the way they were. That way your creative vision is adding, not detracting from theirs. Awesome video though, and I can see this being very useful to more advanced blender users who want to learn more about composition and finishing touches!

Please keep doing these it’s nice to see not only constructive criticism but also you doing the changes to the render. Very helpful work!

The original version of the render gave me vibes of those old factories remade into appartmets. The window, the rusty pipe and the materials used on the walls. I liked the original background and i felt like it was fitting and after the redesign it had a very different vibe for me but it looked very good too.

This is a really useful format to show how a few simple steps can elevate a render to that next level. My renders often look like the before images that seem to be missing the extra magic. Definitely want to see more of these!

This is really great. I struggle with these issues a lot. Specially "what do you want to show in a render" rather than showing off every single object weirdly. Appreciate the hardwork. Hopefully I can become a great artist like you in near future.

The loft interior was mine! Thank you very much for the critique! I’m still learning and your fixes taught me a lot! I hope I can keep growing, thanks again!

The good thing about this type of video format is that it has a wider audience range as it's not only for those who wanna learn, but more to be entertained.

I hope you do more of these! It’s always very interesting to see an industry experts thought process and feedback.

as everyone so far has said Love the format! And I can see why this didn't turn out to be a live edit on stage ':) and as for my car render after you mentioned it I have to agree that the speeding cars distract from the main subject and the final render is more eye catching then what I did originally, and I don't know why I didn't do any renders with spinning wheels as the red shine looks great :D and if I have time to re-render this car the shot from 11:55 can definitely be it's own thing as it has some interesting reflections from the street lights that my original image didn't have at all. And I really hope this becomes a series, I learned quite a lot from this video!

Yes. More, please. This absolutely slaps as a concept for us mere mortals who can barely summon a decent rendered donut in the church of blender.

Working with blender for 3 years and still find this very helpful. Please continue with this format!

the change in lighting at 10:36 made me go "wow". Amazing work as usual and thank you for taking the time to make these helpful videos for us!

Those walls and that floor in that apartment are ANYTHING but wealth my man. Otherwise, really nice video concept, hope you make more!

These are some really enlightening tips and changes, but I'd like to see some more restriction on the assets you choose to improve the renders people send in. Sometimes all you have is free assets and paying for better ones isn't an option, so I challenge you to improve the next batch without any paid assets! :D edit: I really preferred that first light change in the apartment render to the more wiry one, it fit a lot better with the rest of the theme.

I like this format because you are made aware of some aspects and look at certain scenes with a different eye. Sometimes it's just the little things that make a scene much more exciting and interesting

Love how you are not afraid to change something dramatically. Confident artist will know how much and when it is better to change an original vision. Many artists tend to try to salvage a vision but sometimes it is better to start over or change something completely.

Really gotta love Andrew's dedication, it took him 4 months to render all these but that didn't stop him from making this video. 👍

This is amazing, I would love if you went into a bit more detail about how you're achieving some of these effects, such as a the darkening of the underside of the trees in the first render.

When I feel very discouraged in blender, to the point I want to give up, I come here to your channel. It always helps me!

The concept is super dope, I'm actually impatient to see more of this

Man, I´ve been struggling for the last 2 days with a render and you come like an angel to the rescue xD thank you so much!

awesome vid! I'd like to see more of this series, its always interesting how just the little things can change the whole mood of a pic

PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE make this a series

I love the fact that you're talking about the creative - not technical - side of things. Very useful.

Awesome video! I think you were the most radical with changes in #2, almost felt like a different tone than what the OG tried to achieve. Overall, this is extremely refreshing to dissect your thought process!!

I do actually prefer this format of "community submissions" then competition ones. You do actually get to learn how to improve your work. Maybe i'll send one of my one too?? This type of content is really interesting love to see it Andrew.

I really like this format not gonna lie, It just always amazes me how watching someone work on something can give sooo much info and help a lot, especially when the tips were explained. So yeah, I'd love to see more videos like this!

We definitely need to se more of this format! It helps us understand how a good render is created, taking notes from it!

Finally, a post from Blender Guru. Hope all is well 🙏🏾

I really like this type of video, it makes me want to send you a few of my renders hopefully to appear in a video and get some feedback on what i can do better because i always feel like there is more i can do but i can never seem to figure out what it is.

Blender Guru on his way to replace every single thing that made the scene

This is pure gold stuff ! Keep them coming , videos like these makes you look at your own creations and tends you to improve it .

What a fantastic video Andrew! While I would still like to see these as presented, I do still feel like dramatic changes in positioning of the camera should be better justified. The first and last pictures especially seem to dramatically change the presentation compared to the original. I would like to see more analysis of what the original was going for to justify changing things. Objectively the final renders are better but I do feel the meaning behind them has changed.

This is really great Andrew! Very valuable for artists looking to improve there work. I think the Blender community could really use more critique videos, so I'd certainly like to see more of these types of videos!

Love this format, if you continue doing it it would be awesome to have the artist add a note under their render just so its clear what they were trying to achieve with their render so you can approve it accurately!

probably my fav video format of yours because i feel like i really learnt a lot and got to see how much of a difference some things make to a scene. amazing video thank you!!

I actually quite like that you changed them a lot, sometimes as an artist it's easy to overcommit to one idea with fear of change or starting over. I think it's good and healthy to go step by step and change things around even if looks completely different at the end, and it's even cooler cause we get to see how someone else would approach it in a different way instead of just seeing the same image but slightly better just for the sake of seeing the same image but slightly better, if that makes sense. And all the changes were justified and had a purpose so I don't really agree with people complaining about this, it's cool to see a completely different perspective on something and teaches you way more and has more value overall

I feel like the 2nd room turned into a criminal hangout form GTA, still ok tho

Your tutorials are so easy to follow. I've learnt more from you in the last day than ever before. I got to the icing stage of your doughnut tutorials yesterday and continuing today. Thank you 😃

I like how you still retained their style in the "after" images.

At frist I like the redesign! The new designs are much more appealing without question, but they are very different in feel from the original images - especially the apartment. So I would be interested to hear what the original artists think.

For the 2nd image, I think you made it worse...

this is AMAZING. i'm a 3D teacher and my students actually sent me this video so that i do the same with their artworks!! thank you so much for this!

You should do more of these , I'll say make this a standard series on your channel these are really helpful

should've kept the angle in the first one, or similar, to maintain it's integrity.

I don't like the changes made to architecture one, just changing the window panes and hdr would have given better results. There was no reasons to change the bricks design. The first one is a wallpaper that people use in interior, the one you used was litteraly an unplastered wall and the floor also didn't need to be changed

I'm currently building my own house and this video taught me as much about 3d design as it did about Interiors. Thanks dude :)

Great video! Please do more of this, as it helps give us an indication on what tricks you can use. Also it's fun to guess along, and try to predict the things that you are going to change.

a little feedback: i think it's gonna be much more easier to see the changes, especially little changes, if you use sliding before and after transition instead of jump cut transition. about 1 second long cuts it. please consider it :) looking forward to next episode in this series! thanks man ❤️

you ruined number two so hard lmfao. at some point i thought ure just joking. but my mans over here takin the pizz and completely shredding the render into something so ugly only a mother could love

This is the Guru we missed🙂Please keep doing these segments often. Thanks mate👌

I'd definitely like to see more of these - very similar (in a great way) to some photography channels I watch, I love the different ideas you put down for each render.

correction : this isn't 'fixing' renders, this is just ReMaking renders by the Forrest point 😂

lol you didn't fix these renders, you changed them entirely to your own taste.

This is great, you get so many opportunities to share quality tips with this type of format

I love this format Andrew. You're always a very welcoming and charming creator.

Great Format! But I felt like your "fixing" was too invasive to the original. There was some tips like the lake gunk or the moving background car breaking up the silhouette, or golden hour there were really helpful but the apartment for example was like completely different, you didn't fix it, you made ur own...

cool but i don't like what you did with the first two. specially the first one. it had a pretty unique thing going on and you made it generic and uninteresting. You should have leaned into the concept and made it into a tilt-shift photo. it would've looked much cooler, unique and interesting. the second one you changed so much that it's not even remotely the same scene or even concept. plus i like how the original looked way better, both from visuals and from design.

I'd love to see more of this format Andrew!

this is something id love to see more of

Since the video is called "Fixing your renders", I'd have expected only fixing the rendering, not changing this many aspects of the shots. If the guy with the flat needs to have a 3d render of a real flat, your changes are completely useless to him... I feel you are changing waaaaay too much about these sceneries...

I love Nature scenes, try making my own every so often with generative material and shapes but always fall behind on assets because of the price for good ones. I really loved your rendition of the lake, the light shining through the trees and details on the water to make the water less "perfect" made the scene feel more perfect!

The Ship of Theseus comes to mind here... especially with the second one!

I loved the hell out of this format

Slowly but surely, you've just been making really high-tier Poliigon ads and I'm all for it. It's honestly the only product I've seen in a video that doesn't feel crowbarred in and you've really made some great assets. Thanks for all the donuts!

I really like this concept. There are plenty of critics on user works. But none of them is actually fixing it with their file. I really like this

the light improvement at the forrest lake is great

It's amazing how he can just say a change and it appears, I wonder how high his magic level is.

We've been waiting for your comeback and I like this video format, it is very useful!

Love this format, basically small bits of insights with real practical applications

Please keep making these! Learned a lot from this. Love a good critique!

LOVE this new format, please do make more of these types of videos.

This is so fantastic... and makes so much sense after the initial training sessions...

On the first one i actually really liked the birds eye. With the light adjustment and the added drama stuff, would really make that angle nice too, i think.

You should definetly keep going woth this format as it's both informing and fun to watch. Hope too see more!

Mate, Awesome format. I really hope you do more of these!!!

Man changed the whole fucking apartment. I think a series like this should have to do with lighting, rendering settings etc. if textures and objects in the scene need to be changed, they need to be changed as little as possible. For example, change the wooden flooring with another wood floor texture

That‘s a great format, Andrew! I learned a lot! What I especially love about your approach of analyzing scenes and how they should be, why the reference photo is like it is: You‘re looking at the „physics“ or „mechanics“ behind it. In this case e. g. the competitive eco system 9:06. Same with your look at „how are donuts made“ in your famous donut tutorial. I think this is an excellent way of making renders more realistic. But: You have to understand whats happening, why things/scenes are how they are. Great work!

Damn! In my opinion, Youve nailed your new format. This is the exact type of thing Id love to know more about! Sure, it's always wonderful to see blender tutorials, but this. This is how you can help us, the artists, to grow their presentation skills 👏

THAT MADE SENSE !PLEASE MAKE MORE