Joshua Tree National Park first WIP

[mhaze]

Very impressive you seem to have got the sand to work really well.  Great stuff!

[gregtee]

Thanks.  I'm going to render it again this weekend with vegetation.

[zaxxon]

The sandy formations look really good in the frame shots, what kind of rendering horsepower in is use here?  The addition of some foliage should really enhance what already is a fine piece of work, looking forward to your next examples.

[gregtee]

Horsepower is basically Digital Domain's render farm.  Well, what little of it I can use that is.  I don't get to use the whole thing. 

[TheBadger]

Hi greg

Out of an abundance of curiosity about everything I hear and see in these forums, and since you seem ok to talk about your work. Did you ever say why you are picking up TG? I mean are you doing it just to increase the number of tools you can use, or because your job told you to learn TG?

Again, Im just curious is all. I figure there are a lot of people in these forums who have cool jobs and use TG, but only once in a while do people talk about their pro work (really unfortunately). So it can be real informative when people do talk about it.
And I'm just a interested person anyway.

[Antoine]

I like this very much especially the colors and contrast, which give these renders an exceptional sense of realism.