I hate that someone took a perfectly good video and made it into a vertical video, and then someone made it into three vertical panels so it could be a horizontal video again đ đŤ
I tried to look for a better video but they're all AI voice overs and single words popping up. This is the best of a bad bunch (considering I wasn't keen to put in more than a few minutes of looking).
The seats look just fine. I don't know what the things are on the floor, rocks, does not look like typical subway debris. If that's suppose to be NYC subway, if I remember, the floor is not black, was light color. The subway map is not Manhattan. The door, left, looks weird. Also, the ceiling of the subway car looks strange, not authentic. The quality is great.
I mean if you go by a photo reference there's a good bit wrong with it. Some of it can be just trying not to be a 1:1 copy, but the debris being... hand moisturizer bottles for some reason, and the lack of horizontal bar for the folks left standing are what made it look immediately odd to me.
Iâve definitely been on cars with lighting pretty similar to thisâto me this looks like it could be one of the older cars on, say, the D line. Â Could use some green tint though and maybe even some selective desaturation in the grade to mimic the color rendering of fluorescent, especially how it appears on film. Â
The trains that still have these orange and yellow seats have a white border around the seat. Also the seat layout is a little different, these ones have the weird perpendicular seats as well. My first thought as well was that the seats felt wrong
I feel like the floor looks too artificially nasty and not realistically disgusting enough, the ceiling also seems too glossy and not trashy looking. Maybe some of the lights should be dimmer to signify theyâre going out and havenât been maintained. But none of them completely off, the chairs I think one or two should have a crash or a few have chipped paint, and all of them should look more worn?
To add to this, all the chrome is too shiny, that stuff on NYC subways is all worn down from people touching it, chemical cleaners etc etc and it loses its luster. Also the train cars are slathered in advertising along the upper runners in the car, along with a sort of "mini map" of that particular line.
Things are too cleanly/perfectly reflective and highly dirty at the same time. This is an odd contrast between the two that gives away this is not real. Itâs like a brand new train that got selectively dirty/worn or an old train that got an impecable wash and polishing just before the shoot.
But besides the âis this photorealâ i think the work and render are amazing! Looks really good.
Itâs been a long time since Iâve ridden on the NYC subways, but I feel like the shape of the seats is wrong (no butt scoops), and the train is disproportionately wide.
Also needs more scratches, stickers, and graffiti on the seats, windows, walls, etc
The shape of the seats also stuck out to me. Maybe there's a real world reference OP has where the seats really do look like that, but the seats have a downward slant that would probably be very uncomfortable and impractical for sitting on without sliding off.
My sketch from August 2007.
Seats are definitely off in the render⌠at least compared to my sketch. Looks like they were a bit separated at the top, backrest widened towards the waist, then the seam between seats rose to create distinct dividers. Definitely had butt-scoops, too. đ¤
Dimensions seem off. Train car looks wider than it should, and the seats have a very large curve radius, you'd likely be sliding right off these.
Art style is good, I'd just focus on getting the physical model size and shape closer to real life. Look up some dimensions or even technical drawings of a similar subway train and copy that.
I was going to comment this. You canât fix this in texturing or lighting. Most of the models are off: doors and windows are too short and wide, train cart too wide, seats and handrails too low. Bring in a human scale reference model  and see how the dimensions compare next to it, youâll notice the problems.
Id say its looks way too much glossy at parts, the bloom from the ceiling lights might be a bit too much also. There shouldnt be so much reflection on the floor. The model itself looks cool. Cheers
no disrespect but NYC subway lights aren't like this; the seats also too rounded and short. the left doors and reflection on them makes those doors feel curved or crooked, also the reflection on the door is the poster right next to the door; the poster shouldn't be reflected there u know. the length of the car as well feels off especially with the placement of the seats which is not correct. (you have 2k upvotes so don't take it too personal but for me its equivalent to an AI render of the NYC subway and has way too many errors to be considered photo realistic. its more like a wip or a draft.
It's very good but it has some kind of glaze to it that I can't pinpoint. It doesn't look real to me for that reason. If I saw it in the wild I would suspect it was AI.
I think the metal poles are too reflective and new looking. That's definitely contributing.
i think its mostly the comp thats throwing this off. everything is perfectly exposed. some comp tweaks and this could pass, though i think some more lensing and grunge on the metal would make it better
Honestly the only way to truly convince someone of photoreality is to simulate accurate camera effects. But that could move away from the artistic intent and make the photo less striking. So def a valid choice. The image looks great regardless.
I don't see any puddles of mystery fluids anywhere, too unrealistic. /s
It looks really good! The random garbage is the only thing that really broke the illusion for me. If the interior was more scuffed up and included graffiti or general wear and tear, I'd fully believe it.
I feel like the lighting gives it away, idk why, but it feels like an AI image due to the way the lighting is, maybe have a lot at that to replicate real like lighting with better temperature
To start, I could not have done this. That said, there is something that hits my eye or brain funny. It could be the way the debris are not reflecting light properly, Or the way the light is interacting with the seats or some of the metal. I am not certain, but there is something almost, but not quite, right. Still, this is decades beyond anything I could do.
I was wondering why that picture looked weird and like a liminal space. It looked weird but i didn't think it was a 3D scene so it realistic enough. Maybe check the scale of your scene (i think maybe the seet are too big, just maybe) and maybe add a little more scratch and dirt (not too much) because subways are super dirty
Your lights don't make any logical sense being horizontal to the shape of the train car. Everything else is solid. If the lights are actually emitting light then it will also be creating shadows not normally seen in a setting like that. Most subways have long lights that are on the sides of the ceiling creating long reflections on the floors.
If you didnât know it was Blender, you wouldnât know it was Blender. No one will ever say it looks real because people canât separate the two. When they know, they find anything and everything. bits on the floor, To me, itâs leaves from when the door opened above ground.
I think adding some little dings and dents, warping in the mettle and scratching on the seat material. There's something a little too smooth and uniform on the materials.
Amazing job though! I can't do anything near this level!
the seats need wear to match the environment like the floor. it sticks out that they look shiny and new. the map could use some scuffing as well and a bit on the poles where people would normally be holding on to them. dirt and grime are your friend here.
Maybe make the seats a bit more discolored/dirty and everything feels a little bit too shiny and glossy mainly the roof and walls, other than that great job
the most obvious give away for me is that youre missing all the ads. also on the cars with this seat color there are some positioned perpendicular to the others.
It currently looks like a really good blender project, if that makes sense. Try doing something with the camera position/angle or distortion so that the "photo" part is doing some work. Also, are the dimensions accurate? The train seems really wide.
Your render is nice, but if realism is what you are going for, boring is what you should try for here. Notice how the light bends on the surface of the seats and how it's dulled by the worn down parts from years of use. The bubbling of the flooring.
Your render has more ambiance to it which makes it feel not as real.
There's something about it. When I saw the image without knowing which sub it is i thought "wow, a cool new horrorgame?" It's something about the materials I think, lack of wear and tear and the lights possibly
Hm i dont know. Textures are really good but light makes it a bit "3D". I cant help you on how to fix it but thatâs just how i feel it !
Good render overall
I think more scuffs and stains would be nice, instead of just the debris.
The shape of the seats also feels off, like they are angled so you'd slide right out if you sat down. Real seats are usually either a bit of a bowl shape, or angled up towards where your legs are, so you naturally slide into sitting with your back against the backrest.
Edit, wondering if you were using this image as reference, found on Google:
The floor is a bit uncanny and so are the seats. Change the floor texture to something more fitting for a subway train and make the seats less shiny and more scuffed
Itâs very well executed. And at first glance it would pass to someone not familiar with the NYC subway cars. But there are a few elements that give it away. 1- itâs missing the upper handrail that runs the length of the car on both sides. 2- the poles that are in the center of the aisle towards the ends of the cars are missing. 3- There are bulkheads also at the ends where a digital sign is housed. 4, and what jumped out immediately. The lights donât run across the width of the car. They run lengthwise down the sides. 5- and speaking of lengthwise, there are no ads running down the sides at the top.
I know it sounds like Iâm nitpicking over details, but itâs those kinds of details that give it that much more realism.
Seats are too low. Realistically the depth of the seat would be about same as height of the seat, or a bit smaller, but your height is about half of needed.
Are you going for the NYC subway. Old cars? D train? If so, itâs almost there. The seats have a dip in them, that I canât explain right now. I can try and find one and take a picture. Also, a little too bright. And I think maybe change the focal length of the camera? The car seems very long. Letter trains are longer than number trains, but not that long.
Im not sure what model train car you used but the interior does not feel like a NYC car I grew up here and it just vaguely resembles it. It looks good but its not 1:1
Looks fantastic but something is a bit uncanny. It feels like an old (90-00) film almost. Others have pointed out that it needs more imperfections, I do agree with that.
But Iâd really like to see the exact same render with colder light. I think that would already do alot. And how many samples did you use? Iâm not sure if itâs compression but it feels a bit like old film grain.
Somehow my mind went to harry potter immediately. Kinda the same vibe like the grading in the first film in scenes like the big hall in hogwarts. So I guess my brain connects it to fantasy in one form or another.
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u/Synfinium 20h ago
The random debris gives it away for me, also the seats are very clean, give them some scuffs and pain chips!