Outdoors

[otakar]

After too long a period of unfinished renders, here is finally something I got to completion. It started after seeing some great work here with streams and rivers. I wanted to concentrate on the creek bed at first, but it ended up a bit differently. It's amazing to see what vegetation can do as it 'overgrows' the terrain you have originally sculpted. I am always drawn to [placing] trees in the scene, even though I appreciate rocks a lot

Credits:

stumps: MGebhart
Pines: Xfrog (freebie)
Bushes: MrLamppost
Grass and flowers: Walli
Birches: VizPeople (freebie)

[yossam]

Nice...........

[choronr]

Very good with fine quality, lighting and vegetation distribution. My only suggestion is to move the tree in the foreground/right over to the right border where one sees only about 1/2 of it and more of the water.

[Dune]

I agree with Bob; would be nice to see a little more of the creek. If you're taking this further. And then maybe make the bald area more like a path, with some pebbles and gravel?

[bobbystahr]

Great pic and I do like it is but as Ulco says I'd also not have been able to resist putting a path in myself. Thanks BTW for the unintentional heads up re:  VizPeople....great trees them birches.

Just dl'd them and WOW...best birches ever. Very like the ones you see here in Manitoba.....Do y think they're procedural from with in max or modeled by hand, hand rolled as it were?

[otakar]

Thank you for your feedback! Sometimes things are better left obscured, I guess. I tried moving the tree but the subsequent render brought out a bunch of issues that were now clearly visible. I will have to give this more thought. As for the path, I intentionally built it looking rather soft - this is supposed to be sandy ground, so no rocks.

Yes, I agree that the birches are nice. Good to have a few variations as well.