Little Dakota Creek

[otakar]

That's some crazy tree modeling, I love it! Great scene overall, all the plants seem to be placed naturally and fit the scene. If you've had first hand experience in TG, that's quite hard to accomplish. Good stuff 

[zaxxon]

Here is an updated image with a little more 'interest' in the immediate foreground, should've done something of that sort to begin with... Thanks for the nudge. Also increased the haze density to put a little more 'atmosphere' between the foreground and distant hills. And upped the AO from 1.54 to 2.0.

Seems a consensus vote for the tree, with a few qualifiers as to placement, thanks!

TheBadger: sorry it's blocking your view, take my word aside from the lovely unclad babe behind the tree, you ain't missing much 

TU: Always a pleasure when you stop by to comment. Thanks for the tips, and indeed I did add a couple of tiny fake rock populations into the foreground area. Hard to move the tree at this point as it's supposed to be growing from the creek bed (which is usually very dry). I'll probably return to this scene and find some other POV's; it's set in a large World Machine .ter file (542 megs). and is composed of gentle rolling hills with small ravines and lots of erosion.

Thanks to everyone who spent time viewing and commenting on this image, really appreciated!

[Dune]

That's a great update, I love it (saved it). The texture on the ground really does it, and the haze was a good idea too. Up to your next!

[choronr]

You've done it your way; and, it is very pleasing. Time to fire up the printer!

[wiwine]

A superb render.
And with a little contrast adjustment (auto-contrast) it looks even better

[Saurav]

Great scene and the placement of vegetations are perfect. One of the most photorealistic renders to come out of the TG forum in recent times. In fact if you just showed me the right hand side of the render I would believe it was a photo. 

[ndeewolfwood]

Oh yeah ! Very "natural" rendering. Good job. Maybe time for higher resolution now. 

[Tangled-Universe]

Great update and great work!

I just don't have much else to say other than I'm looking forward to see your next one.
It's a real pleasure to see good TG work, thanks!

Great scene and the placement of vegetations are perfect. One of the most photorealistic renders to come out of the TG forum in recent times. In fact if you just showed me the right hand side of the render I would believe it was a photo. 

+1

[ratfugel]

Zaxxon - don't worry about the nit pickers.  You've got the eye, and that's what really matters.  Most people would probably miss what you pick up on.  Nature has always been an untidy beast. One can easily be too tidy and structured in one's images. Things fall, rot, get scattered etc etc.  You caught all of this. Fabulous job.

rat.

 

[zaxxon]

Wow! Thanks for the great response to this image. No secret, I'm still learning this great app. Having a lot of fun along the way - and it's really great to be part of this community  .

If anyone would like a shot at using this .ter file from WM, let me know. Here's an overhead image; it's far from perfect, but it contains a high level of detail, and I think there's lots of POV's to be had.

[yossam]

I wouldn't mind giving it a look see. 

[otakar]

Even better. Will print as well to stick on the wall.

[inkydigit]

Astonishingly realistic... Really love the colours and shapes/distribution of the super vegetation... 😄
Congratulations
Cheers
Jason
Ps the terrain file would be fun to explore!

[bigben]

Great images.  The branching on the small bushes is fantastic (as well as everything else others have mentioned)

[alessandro]

Great image, congrats!