Slough Creek Yellowstone National Park *Finished Version Updated 12.04.09*

Saurav · March 19, 2009, 06:15:16 PM

Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.

I'm still making improvements in the scene and have already incorporated the 2 other versions/age of Douglas Fir tree.

Hopefully within the next week I will have the final version posted.

Oshyan and Moodflow, I'll test this scene with other AA filters.

Thanks again.

FrankB · March 20, 2009, 07:23:40 PM

I believe the mid-ground is what spoils it a bit for me - I don't think it looks exactly realistic, Saurav. The image could be more realistic just if the color of the trees would be a little different, and maybe darker and more saturated. The foreground is excellent, the background is good, too, it's just the midground...
Not that I could do it any better, but still... ;-) ... in your other renders, the color and lighting is always spot on, and if you get that into this render, it will be another great "Saurav" :-)

Cheers,
Frank

Saurav · April 11, 2009, 07:42:32 PM

I have finally got around to posting the finished version of this render.

Improvements made: Tree colour variations, smaller tree size, dead trees, cloud layers and colour corrected.

Render details: 5hours, Detail 1, AA 10, GI 2/3.

Project Details:

Location: Slough Creek, Yellowstone National Park

Rendered for Wolf Quest Ep II: Slough Creek

sjefen · April 11, 2009, 08:04:53 PM

That is outstanding Saurav. I like everything about it.
It is the most realistic render I have ever seen made with Terragen 2.

- Terje

Oshyan · April 11, 2009, 08:05:00 PM

That's a photo Saurav. Quit trying to fool us.

- Oshyan

Cemoa · April 12, 2009, 12:58:41 AM

If you were to say that was a photo I would totally believe you. I almost don't believe that is Terragen 2! Outstanding work!

Mohawk20 · April 12, 2009, 03:04:45 AM

Image of the Week!!!

Seth · April 12, 2009, 05:17:14 AM

damn good man ! ^^
you did a good job

Tangled-Universe · April 12, 2009, 05:46:11 AM

Those grasses are insane!

The trees as well

(though a tad more contrast might look even better?)
Very photorealistic, very natural and detailed.
Fantastic work Saurav, in all aspects!

Did you use lower-quality treepopulations for the background mountains?
5 hours for an image like this seems very quick to me, unless you also have a crazy i7

Martin

MacGyver · April 12, 2009, 08:12:14 AM

Quote from: sjefen on April 11, 2009, 08:04:53 PM
That is outstanding Saurav. I like everything about it.
It is the most realistic render I have ever seen made with Terragen 2.

- Terje

Could well be!

FrankB · April 12, 2009, 08:31:32 AM

yeah, that's it, Saurav. Congratulations!

Frank

buzzzzz1 · April 12, 2009, 09:11:38 AM

Kudos!

domdib · April 12, 2009, 09:34:23 AM

Beautiful. I agree about the photo realism. I'd bet that if you put it on Flickr, at least 99% would think it a photo.

sjefen · April 12, 2009, 09:45:14 AM

I think you should post this over at CGTalk and see what people say.
They usually pay more attention to naked girls and characters, but this is a landscape render in a class of it's own.

- Terje

efflux · April 12, 2009, 07:48:33 PM

Very realistic. I love all the grass details. You could certainly fool someone into thinking this was a photo.