more foam

[mhaze]

Unashamedly inspired by Dune.  Birds - Noggin's seagulls from Daz3d, limpets me, will post model later.  I did have a crab or two in there but they didn't show up well so I abandoned them.  Oh for a conforming kelp model!

[Hannes]

The foam looks fantastic. Any chance for sharing the settings for the pattern?

[Hannes]

Some suggestions: maybe the water could have a slightly blueish tint where it's kind of milky (see this link:
http://cdn.c.photoshelter.com/img-get/I0000yeiZrW5m1YE/s/860/860/20120703-Point-Sur-Lightstation-moonrise-tour-MG-5443.jpg )
and if you'd place some small localised cloud layers right where water hits the rocks, you'd have some nice spray.

[Tangled-Universe]

Jeez, this looks so awesome! I absolutely love those rocks, fantastic!
Great water and foam also.
I agree with Hannes that you may try adding some blu'ish subsurface tint.
What I also like is that the seagull's are doing different things and aren't obvious populated or otherwise look repetetive.
The atmosphere fits the scene well too.

Gotta say again I really dig this one one of the nicest I've seen lately!

Cheers,
Martin

[mhaze]

Cheers all

Like the idea of the blue hint to the foam will explore. tgd going up, sans birds now.

[mhaze]

You can use the same technique to create foam around rocks in a river by using the displacement to vector node driven by a fake shader.  It's not too accurate but is better than random placing of the foam.

BTW the blue tone is proving hard to achieve!

[Tangled-Universe]

If you need help then drop me a line.

[Kevin F]

Great scene, love the rocks and foam. The birds look a bit plastic like though, could you apply a tiny bit of bump mapping with a tiny tiny bit of stretch along the body from head to tail?

[mhaze]

Yes Kevin - but I'm lazy!!!! and TG is not good at loading the bump maps automatically so I have to load them by hand, however I'll add some and see if it works.  Thanks TU tgd is up in file shareing - I'm trying to add some colour from the blue nodes but it's not srtong enough.

[Kevin F]

I've just added some greenish/blue colour to the water using the sub-surface vol1 colour and density settings - works fine.

[mhaze]

Aye, but I want to make the greyish, upswelling foam bluish.

[Kadri]

Looks great!

[TheBadger]

lots of nice details here! Its cool.

[Martchi]

Foam are superb!

[Dune]

Great result, Mick. My only crit would also be the 'plastic' birds. Thanks for sharing the limpets, they're a great addition to renders like this, and with the rotation features they stick to the rocks perfectly.