I agree with @beefkeef that the lighting is the defining difference between the concept art vs render example. If you just spread their color palettes out in front of you it would be extremely apparent.
The colors you get out of the concept were very deliberately chosen, and would look beautiful as swatches sitting next to one another. There’s a selection of vibrant saturated colors as well as more muted desaturated tones, and theyre used to make the objects in the scene pop.
The 3D version is relatively desaturated across the board, diffuse, no gradient. Whats interesting to me is that it actually looks like the 3d version eyedroppered some of the concept colors, but due to the lighting and materials, you don’t get great color depth.
The sky and lamps lend color depth to everything in the concept, with varying levels of specularity / roughness — and that is completely absent in the 3d. That color variation in the original art even helps frame your attention, with the warm colors in the sand pulling your eye in.
Colors are so GD important. And people that use them well blow my mind.
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