Climbing the Chimney

[RArcher]

I'm not sure why but this one just came together really easy.  Normally I struggle with creating decent rock faces, but I am enormously pleased with this entire image.  Started with a rough terrain from GeoControl 2 and then really worked the displacements.  Bushes are Moodflows bush pack which works really well in scenes of this type.  The slight background depth blur was created based off of a separate distance shader grayscale render.  My reasoning for adding it was to highlight the edge of the cliff walls as that was my main focus point for the image.

Thanks for taking a look and any comments or critiques you may have.

-Ryan

[nvseal]

Fantastic cliff!

[moodflow]

This looks really sweet!  Nice work.   

[old_blaggard]

Really nice work with the vegetation and the cliff walls. The color choices are exceptional. My only complaint is about some of the background landforms - they look a little too straight and clean-cut to me.

[inkydigit]

super scene....I like the pov especially, and the rock structures!

[reck]

This looks amazing, I think it's the light that makes it look so realistic. As others have mentioned I think the distant (not the middle) landform looks unnatural, especially compared to the ultra realistic foreground.

Good work.

[PorcupineFloyd]

Very good colour balance and POV.

[monks]

Great stuff!

monks

[rcallicotte]

Great terrain work.

[MacGyver]

Great scene! I can almost see the cliff birds fly to their nest
You may admit now, that it's a photo
I can't distinguish the first bushes that are blurred (on the left) from reality... wow! Agreed though about the background, the mountain has two exactly parallel lines in it which, at least to me, look a bit too perfect.

[dwilson]

This is amazing and very realistic

[RogueNZ]

Awesome scene

[dandelO]

I agree, one of the most realistic rockscapes I've seen in TG. Fantasticly done.
RArcher! Shhhhh! What's the shutter speed?

[matrix2003]

What everyone else said!!  WOW!

[gastar]

great work