Canyon river

[nvseal]

Slight postwork. This also uses moodflow's new lighting setup which I've been tweaking. I don't think this turned out as well as I would have hoped -- I did forget to turn soft shadows on. 

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs34/f/2008/238/f/3/Canyon_River_by_nvseal.jpg

[fmtoffolo]

  veryyyyy veryyyy niceeee
there are some strange artifacts in the clouds. and the trees look kinda bright for my taste
but wow!
amazing render!

[RArcher]

I love love love the atmosphere!  Some of the textures and trees almost look like thick paint.  The displacements are all very nice as well.  Really nice job on this one.

[mrwho]

cool. I've tried the new lighting technique once, and it turned out horrible. gotta keep trying i suppose

[old_blaggard]

Nice job.  Try adding some reflectivity to the rocks (just a little...).

[Saurav]

This is looking great, only problem is the banding on the sky.

[inkydigit]

super scene....agree about the splotchy clouds, but even so this is gorgeous!

[rcallicotte]

Great point of view.  Like the scene overall and wonder a little about the clouds, but that wasn't my first concern.  The trees on the right are a little too luminous in the leaves.  Beautiful scene.

[PorcupineFloyd]

Great scene but I'd increase haze or bluesky density to get rid of this strange feeling that clouds are too sharp.

Canyon is pure awesomeness.

[sjefen]

Really cool image nvseal.

I have a suggestion for the clouds. Try reduce the "Fake Internal Scattering" from 0.25 to something like 0.05

- Terje

[MacGyver]

 
Really fantastic! Reminds me of my favourite paintings from the 17th century or so, impressive colours and forest!

[Cyber-Angel]

Could some one explain to my the lighting method used? The theory as I understand it is to disable the sun (Image goes black) and use GI as the only light source, I have tried this and can not get it to work! The only way I can get any illumination in the scene is to change form GI to Ambient Occlusion, but there are no shadows, unless that is the idea or I'm completely wide of the mark and am missing some thing important?

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel           

[moodflow]

Very nice work indeed!  Looks like it was an undertaking, but well worth the effort.  I see a few tweaks you could make in the lighting to make it even better.

As for the GI technique, I've recently found its a balance between sunlight strength and the GI pushing through.  You have to manually change the settings until it all fits.  Additionally, the crop render will show GI differently that the full scene, so keep that in mind.

[Phylloxera]

Good idea but I think that this image is perfectible! The clouds (lower part), the trees (the roots are seen), some are almost in the vacuum!

[Will]

nothing that hasn't been said, great job!