inkydigit's Iceland renders

[otakar]

Really good! My eye gets drawn to the water, how'd you add that in? Via a mask?

[inkydigit]

A minor update...lo res - Squeezing renders in between work etc.... Many fruitless tests, my strata vanished for a while.... Adding a mask with a merge shader messed up all the displacements?
Thankfully it was an easy fix... I used one mask rather than two merged... )
Pw=Some fairly light and contrast tweaks in snapseed...
Still stacks to do.... More breakup (more colours?) thermal steam still not entirely happy with - some additional procedural masking will be tried next....
Starting to panic

Cheers
Inky

[inkydigit]

Ps @ otakar yes image maps and procedural (power fractal)

J

[choronr]

Evolving very nicely.

[ADE]

looking good, Jason....

[Henry Blewer]

Keep working. You are very close.

[ADE]

great textures there on the rocks Mr Ink!!!!

[Artby]

Epic lighting and great sense of scale !
I really like the background and the river, but not sure about the clouds...  They looks a bit "digital" to me, but this is just my opinion. Have you some image references to work with ?

[inkydigit]

thanks folks,
tweaking into the wee hours is frazzling my brain... I can see faces in the prepass!!!

next one up shortly, more tweaks yet to do, arghhh!

it is never really finished is it?
@Artby, thanks a lot... - I agree about the distant clouds/steam/mist... we are cloud warping at present, some additional masking may well be used too...
there are smoking steaming fumaroles that I was using as reference - some are like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/98364818@N00/8353113553
any how, I'll prep my next image for posting shortly...
cheers
Jason

Epic lighting and great sense of scale !
I really like the background and the river, but not sure about the clouds...  They looks a bit "digital" to me, but this is just my opinion. Have you some image references to work with ?

[inkydigit]

Another small update, tiny tweaks... Still not happy... Next one cooking....
Truck will most likely be replaced with Jochen's lovely LR 110s
Small rocks and distant steam or mist is problematic.... So hard to get right, it's like knitting a jellyfish.

Some quick and dirty pw with snapseed on the iPad...
A bit too rough this time maybe?
Onwards and upwards
Cheers
J

[choronr]

The details here are striking Jason. Maybe brighten up the streams with some luminosity?

[Oshyan]

Luminosity? If we're looking at the same streams (in the distance?), I think they're bright enough as-is, and looking pretty good. Oh wait, *steam*? Just as an experiment, crop render the upper 1/4 or 1/3 of the image at moderate resolution and enable Receive Shadows from Surfaces in the Cloud (steam) layer...

As for the post work, as I mentioned on FB I think it's a bit too bright now. I liked the dark, contrasty approach you had before. But either way it's a stupendous terrain with outstanding details. Undeniably one of your best works to date, in fact I'd probably pick it as my personal favorite of everything you've ever done (and I do like your other work, so that's saying a lot ).

- Oshyan

[AaronTyler]

Looks awesome! 

[inkydigit]

Thanks Bob, Oshyan and Aaron...
The final few tweaks, before I hit the render button:
enabled receive shadows from ... in the steam... looking good so far(?), & did not impact too much on render time, Jochen's amazing LR 110's (big thanks Jochen!) added a paint job of my own...
You can see in the larger FG crop that the tyre tracks are obliterated by the shadow of the rocks that were out of frame... I always forget about wee thing like that... testing soft shadows at present, will post more soon,

anyone used a render farm for single images yet?
severely tempted lol!
)
J

[kalwalt]

Awesome! Very realistic indeed!