The big one - *V5* Wide Screen Render

FrankB · February 10, 2009, 09:40:34 AM

Quote from: RArcher on February 10, 2009, 09:37:15 AM
Ahh, you just want a bigger view. I would still like it raised up a 1000m or so.

I gave you 300 more :-P

FrankB · February 10, 2009, 09:45:29 AM

Thanks guys, to be honest I'm pretty happy with the latest render as well

To make it a little more like the reference photo from the other thread, I had desaturated the blue some and also applied a very shy blur to the image. Seems that this worked well.

I thought I would just try both suggestions (lift up the cloud a bit and also pull the camera back a little).
I'll post this once finished.

Cheers,
Frank

FrankB · February 10, 2009, 09:49:30 AM

One more thing, for anyone wanting to try this as well:

The light direction plays a key role in deciding whether this looks great or mediocre.
On the same shot, before this last render, I had the sunlight coming more from behind the camera. The cloud did look quite nice, but not really great. It seemed to be a rather flat wall. Changing the light direction so that shadows could underline the depth of the formation much clearer really did the trick.

Regards;
Frank

moodflow · February 10, 2009, 11:25:31 AM

Fantastic work Frank!

Honestly, we need a bit more sizes for the "bulbs" so there is more variation in shape. Right now we only have feature scale (the main scale), lead-in scale (the largest scale), and smallest scale.

I've tried many times to combine multiple fractals with different scales to generate this effect, but still haven't found the magic formula. I feel its just a matter of combining them correctly at this point.

FrankB · February 10, 2009, 12:00:19 PM

Version 4, ready for your critical yet gentle looks ;-)

Tangled-Universe · February 10, 2009, 12:25:51 PM

hmmm...if you ask me the distance is (nearly) the same as the previous one.
Nonetheless I think it looks really good. I just think the billowy shapes will look sharper and less noisy from slightly greater distance, and thus even more realistic.
Some of the cloudshapes have really cool overhangs, these contribute to the sense of immense-ness of these clouds

nvseal · February 10, 2009, 12:49:38 PM

Fantastic Frank!

MacGyver · February 10, 2009, 02:00:37 PM

Getting better and better!

rcallicotte · February 10, 2009, 03:02:15 PM

Wow. This is...BIG.

FrankB · February 10, 2009, 03:05:58 PM

should be big.... took me ~2.5 hours to render this beast.

Cheers,
Frank

moodflow · February 10, 2009, 05:00:34 PM

Getting there!

Mohawk20 · February 10, 2009, 05:11:41 PM

Very convincing!

I can see all kinds of shapes and cartoon faces in the latest version, which means it's very realistic

darthvader · February 10, 2009, 06:32:47 PM

ONLY 2.5 hours?!?! dang, you must have a supercomputer

Those clouds look very nice!

Volker Harun · February 10, 2009, 07:12:49 PM

It is getting better and better ... !

Saurav · February 10, 2009, 08:36:10 PM

It's definitely getting close to the real thing in terms of lighting and cloud shapes but I think the blur is a bit too much in the last version.