The crossing

Started by sboerner, August 30, 2020, 09:24:25 PM

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DocCharly65

Ha! What a surprise! I never thought about sailing! Great result!

Dune

I like it very much too. It's a great render; beautiful light, wonderful boat and the sail is very natural. One small thing I'm hesitating about and that is the foam, solely restricted to the tops of waves. They are not that high that they really break apart by their own height, so I would expect some loose (stripes) of foam in the valleys too, and perhaps not even on all tops.
And perhaps the further clouds can be a little darker too, to make it more dramatic.
Nitpicking, but I mention it anyway. But a really fine job, Steve!

sboerner

Thanks Doc, Ulco. I thought there might be something missing with the foam, good suggestions. I'll take another look at that!


David

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Great image Steve, very atmospheric. I especially like your mildew'd sail and the convincing figures. I'm curious to know just how large the image is and how long it took to render, those waves seem to soak up the 'render juice'!

sboerner

QuoteGreat image Steve, very atmospheric. I especially like your mildew'd sail and the convincing figures. I'm curious to know just how large the image is and how long it took to render, those waves seem to soak up the 'render juice'!

Thanks. The original size of the rendering was 1920x1200. The render time is stamped on the filename, a little over 16 hours using the path tracer. Longer than I'd like, but not bad, considering.

I'll eventually do a larger rendering but will do that in sections over several nights.

Dune

I think there's so little transparency in the water that you might as well leave it at reflection only, and maybe fake some underwater color variation. That may speed up rendering. Or restrict transparency to only the very front.

sboerner

Latest version (and probably final at least for now). A bit more shear on the large waves, tightened small wave patterns, added stringy foam, tweaked cloud lighting.


Dune

Top notch! The wind is now really visible.


j meyer


sboerner

Thanks, everyone. This was a very educational project . . . learned a few new things.

Benedict_Roff-Marsh

Very nice work. Posed more like a classic painting than an Abrams film which I think a good thing.

:-)

bobbystahr

something borrowed,
something Blue.
Ring out the Old.
Bring in the New
Bobby Stahr, Paracosmologist