Forgotten Forest FINAL storyboard

[Zairyn Arsyn]

updated version, different atmosphere settings, less rough waters.

[domdib]

Very calm - the fog would add something I think.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

Oh, it does add something... it looks good 

[Zairyn Arsyn]

the fog

C&C welcome

[Henry Blewer]

I am not sure the scale of the fog is quite there. Smaller wisps would look cool. I do like the way this looks as far as density of the fog goes. Nice touch.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

yeah, its not perfect yet.
i scaled the fog fractal down some since that render, i might need to scale it down some more,
the fog is masked with a painted shader to cut back on render time.

forgot to mention I'm using Dandel0's masked water tgc, so that's decreased to the render time some.

[domdib]

Looks good - probably looks even better closer up.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i will be away from my rendering computer until friday afternoon.. so, i thought this would be a good time to render a animation - not the whole thing, just a part of it.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

here is a short animation sample (6secs)
with better AA & Ray traced Objects on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJyNUo65ccg

Darn Florida summer thunderstorms! 

[Zairyn Arsyn]

here is the new Fog
what do you guys think? should i keep it like this or keep tweaking it?

[domdib]

It looks like the sort of thing that you could tweak endlessly, but this looks pretty good to me.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

i know what you mean, lots of different possibilities

i should show a render from higher up, showing the fog from a longer distance

It looks like the sort of thing that you could tweak endlessly, but this looks pretty good to me.

[Henry Blewer]

This looks good to me also. It's the type of fog that burns off in the morning. Id' leave it like this; you could be spending too much time with it. There is not a just right look; this is good.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

here is a short test animation of the fog fading away (8s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbVPWkdNnEc

the populations are all turned off, and i had the sequence set to skip 3 frames at a time
(to cut down on render time)

[Henry Blewer]

Well done test I say. The full render animation will be cool.