Thanks a lot for your kind words, guys.
@Kevin: I used a FOV of 40, that means I zoomed in for that image, so things may look closer to each other than they really are. Actually the palm tree is rather
too small compared to the ship (see the attached image - both objects side by side). I took the liberty to adjust the size of the tree a little bit so that it fits better into the image.
@The Badger: Wow, thank you. In my eyes it's a final image. Normally it takes a long time for me until I put an image into the gallery, because I'm the biggest nitpicker concerning my own images. I was tempted to upload it almost a week ago, but I found an awful lot of things to be fixed. There was no ship in the image at this time, no birds, there was a lot of shader work and even the shore foam looked different (more soapy or like sinful moments in the bathtub a long long time ago
).
That doesn't mean of course that I'd not be open for suggestions or crits, don't get me wrong.
@Kadri (or should I say "Kardi"?
):
You nailed it! I thought of a wide screen movie frame when I chose this aspect ratio. I was even tempted to add some black bars above and below the image to create a letterbox effect.
But
no, I won't animate it! I made some tests with a masked cloud layer directly above the water surface as spray like I did in my NWDA-Caribbean animation. The rendertimes are insane! So without some spray for the bow wave for example or at the shore it wouldn't look right. Also the palm leaves should be swaying in the wind (OK, this should be possible if I'd use dandelO's solution)
Maybe when I have another computer. When I'm grown up.
Something off topic: the german slang word for "nitpicker" is "Korinthenkacker" which directly translated means (in kind words) someone who produces raisins during defecation
, but recently I found another funny german word for that I hadn't heard yet which is "antfucker". Sorry for the nasty word but I'm only quoting Wikipedia!