Stormy Clouds

sjefen · May 13, 2007, 07:26:53 PM

This is my newest image. I started on this to study the clouds
but after a while I wanted to make a terrain for it just to make it a little more interesting.
I got tired of it and want to start on something new.

Did color adjustments and some film grain in photoshop.

Feel free to leave a comment

old_blaggard · May 13, 2007, 09:20:36 PM

Very nice clouds! I like your terrain, too. The colors are spot-on, and the mist adds a whole lot. I'm not really a big fan of the grain, but to each his own.

nvseal · May 13, 2007, 09:28:44 PM

I agree, very nice clouds. And your lighting looks great as well.

ProjectX · May 14, 2007, 04:29:03 AM

how do you get such great darkening in the base of your clouds? Did you mess with the lighting values? or was it just a density increase?

Will · May 14, 2007, 05:02:39 AM

Yes please tell us, great work man.

Regards,

Will

sjefen · May 14, 2007, 06:56:27 AM

I can't remember

But I will check in to it when I come home.
I think I increased the density, but I also think I messed around with the color.
Let you know later....

Anyways thanks for the reply

sjefen · May 14, 2007, 05:33:38 PM

I was right. Heh...
That was pretty much the only thing I did. Maby I did something else, but that I cant remember.
Just to say it.... I'm not very happy with the cirrus clouds. Don't think that I have ever been happy with
cirrus clouds. Would help a lot if anyone have some tips or trix.

I could share the tg file if that helps.

old_blaggard · May 14, 2007, 06:29:37 PM

I'm not sure if I've ever changed my cirrus clouds from the default - it works very well for me.

sjefen · May 14, 2007, 07:22:45 PM

Quote from: old_blaggard on May 14, 2007, 06:29:37 PM
I'm not sure if I've ever changed my cirrus clouds from the default - it works very well for me.

Maby that is my problem. I always have to make changes to the default settings. He he.
Next time I will try not to shange it for the cirrus clouds.

dhavalmistry · May 14, 2007, 10:54:09 PM

hey man...GREAT clouds....how long did that take to render??/...and what is the edge sharpness and cloud density?

sjefen · May 15, 2007, 03:22:23 AM

Thanks.
The edge sharpness is at default 5 and the density is set to 0.25.
It took about 40h, but the terrain made sure of that.
The clouds didn't take that long.

RealUser · May 15, 2007, 11:00:31 AM

Pretty nice upcoming storm clouds!

ProjectX · May 15, 2007, 02:25:10 PM

Well if you want plane contrail-style cirrus, stretch the noise (under tweaknoise in the density fractal) in the X or Z (not both) axis by a value of 10 or so.

sjefen · May 15, 2007, 03:04:18 PM

Thanks ProjectX. I will try that out.