Was supposed to be a road

Cocateho · August 12, 2015, 07:03:01 PM

WIP, definitely going for photo real on this one. Pretty happy with the over all colors, especially the trees. The path kinda got lost, and the ground cover could use some more tweaking and variety to really look "real". C&C welcome.

AP · August 12, 2015, 07:59:56 PM

It's very nice overall. I like the variety of vegetation.

As far as critiques, you might want to make the lighting a bit more dark in the trees. To me it looks like a bit too much light is penetrating the leaves. Some fine bark displacement along the branches and twigs. Other then that it's very good. Looking forward to more updates on this one.

Cocateho · August 13, 2015, 06:56:42 PM

tweaked clouds, added flowers along the edge or the path and upped the displacement on the tree bark. Making some further adjustments/additions now to the path and tree bark.

Stranded · August 14, 2015, 09:36:20 AM

I really dig the colors and the overall feel of the image. What jumps out at me is the need to blend the edges of the path and the brush together a bit more so it's not such a sharp divide between the two.

Also, can you tell me what vegetation you used for this? It's perfect..

Cocateho · August 14, 2015, 10:43:41 AM

Thanks! It's mostly all xfrog stuff, the thick grass clumps are Mr Lamppost's, the golden reeds for as much as I use them I honestly can't remember where I got them. I want to think dandelO or Walli, and the grass in the middle of the path is Walli's... but everything else is xfrog as far as I can remember. Trees are red maple, tulip poplar, European hackberry and beech, and Oregon ash.

Stranded · August 14, 2015, 12:25:25 PM

Thanks for the info, really great work. Those are the kinds of pics that I want to make. I'll get there.

Cocateho · August 15, 2015, 01:38:16 AM

Low quality render with some updates. Kinda hard to see but I tweaked the displacement on some trees, also made some additions to the pathway.

Cocateho · August 15, 2015, 12:57:40 PM

Full sized. Still not quite getting it... any suggestions on increasing the "realism"?

Lady of the Lake · August 15, 2015, 03:01:43 PM

Maybe the flowers on the right are in too much of a straight row? Love the image....the trees are super.

kaedorg · August 16, 2015, 08:44:06 AM

I do agree with Lady. The 3 plants on the right of the foreground seem too much on the road.
Otherwise it is great.

David

Cocateho · August 16, 2015, 04:43:36 PM

Fixed a couple things, made an addition or two...

this was my first time using a vehicle so that was a bit of a learning curve. I think it adds something but I'm not quite sure if I like it more with or with out. Thoughts? This isn't the full size, just a large test to make sure the details worked out the way I wanted.

bobbystahr · August 17, 2015, 12:23:17 AM

Scale looks pretty good...do I see a driver?...nice glass reflection....I think it adds myself, all man made is a good contrast.

DocCharly65 · August 17, 2015, 03:04:22 AM

I like it very much!

A little bit (but very small little bit) I am missing a shrubbery level in the forest... But that is not absolutely necessary.

Cocateho · August 17, 2015, 11:44:15 AM

I'll call this a final... for now. I feel I may come back to this though. Thank you all for your kind words, hope you enjoy the full size version too! This one is a bit compressed so if it looks a bit lower quality than it should that's probably why.

Dune · August 17, 2015, 12:21:42 PM

Good work! I like it.