Take Flight

[rcallicotte]

Oh, yeah.  This is better.  The entire scene has brightened up, which adds more realism.  Good job.

[darthvader]

thanks, this last render was only 3 hours long while I was in class. The next one will actually have soft shadows enabled and be bigger, most likely will be a couple days before it's posted bu it should be worth the wait.

[Tangled-Universe]

thanks, this last render was only 3 hours long while I was in class. The next one will actually have soft shadows enabled and be bigger, most likely will be a couple days before it's posted bu it should be worth the wait.

I certainly agree, looking forward to see the final result

[lightning]

WOW! i like the latest render man love what you did with the grass
i think the scene would look realy cool with a castle or windmill in the distance
but thats just my personal taste!
or maybe try adding some of sonshines flowers and butterflies

[Mr_Lamppost]

Wow I definitely like this last version, the first one had that under exposed because you were "Concentrating on the birds" look, which has a certain power but this latest one is a much more complete scene.  Bring on the big one.

[darthvader]

Here is the big one.
39 hours 34 minutes to render
detail: .8
AA: 12
GI: 2/2

I really like how the grass turned out in this one but I might want to fiddle with the birds so their wings don't appear so boldly white.

[attachthumb=#]

[rcallicotte]

It's all very realistic.  Nice.  I agree about the grass - beautiful.

[Seth]

nice one (the last render).
the grass is very realistic ^^

[Tangled-Universe]

Yeah man, this is exactly what I had in mind when I wrote a comment on your earlier version of this one.
Great improvements on the size and quality. Now you can see individual grasses and they are nicely AA'ed.
The soft-shadows are a great improvent, especially on the bark of the trees. I guess you didn't use the fill-light method I proposed, isn't it?
I agree with you about the birds, but I don't find it too distracting. By the way, where did you get the models?
Very nice work, keep it up

Martin

[darthvader]

Thanks everybody Actually, I did use your fill light suggestion, it just isn't very visible in the image. As for the birds, all I remember is that the website link is somewhere on ashundar, sorry I can't be mroe helpful

[Tangled-Universe]

Thanks everybody Actually, I did use your fill light suggestion, it just isn't very visible in the image. As for the birds, all I remember is that the website link is somewhere on ashundar, sorry I can't be mroe helpful

Oh you did! I was doubting a little about that, because it is visible on the barks of the trees as well as the foreground-model, but it could also be already done by the soft-shadows but most of the times not enough. Was my guess for strength a bit accurate?

No problem you can't help me further, at least I know a good direction where to search, thanks

Martin

[darthvader]

yep, your guess was very good, .2 strength works perfectly