"Mountain cows"
Hello, for this first series of wip I opted for a style "cartoon" in a semi reality environment. For this reason I have used a single grass population in the same size, as for cows they all have the same size and are identical. The cliff is a file mix of Mhaze, Dune Efflux and me. The vegetations is of Silva 3D and the cows of The model resource.
The terrain already looks great! But I'm not sure about the cows. I know you aimed for a semi realistic style, but to me the difference in realism between the terrain and the cows is too much. Maybe some more realistic ones in the style of Ice Age for example?
Hilarious! Now that's more like it!
;D Great! But if you want to have any chance of winning, opt for realism.
;D Those cows are cracking me up, really cool.
I love it, the contrast between the two elements works really great ... but please add a parachute to this poor cow on the picture 4 8)
And bravo for breaking the rules, my useless vote is for you ;)
Looks great, outside the box is the place to be.
hey diddle diddle
the cat and the fiddle
the cow jumped over the moon....
I have a thought about how this mix of cartoony and realistic could work better, at least for those of us who are skeptics (myself included)...
What if you actually tried to make it look like realistic *cardboard cutout cows*? I think if you look closely at the current textures they imply that this is just a cardboard creation (you see a cardboard edge I believe). But it's just a texture, and the smooth surface and other details make it look truly cartoony. But if you worked on a semi-rough "paper" texture/bump, with the same color texture, and made the model more detailed depicting individual sheets of cardboard, and the modeled the way such a cow "cardboard sculpture" might appear in reality...
Then you have your amusing, surreal element, but it also fits with the realistic background. Just a thought. :D
- Oshyan
Amusing.
Cows on the loose.
Looks pretty good so far.
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I know I am a little out with this type of pictures compared to what is presented to the usual in this type of contest with the Terragen software which is excellent for making photographic and realistic images.
In my case, the interest of continuing to make photographic pictures with 3D had completely disappeared in the summer of 2007, being realistic was no longer a motivation.
I know that maybe I will not win anything but the motivation and the pleasure is back and it's very pleasant. :D
Quote from: Jo Kariboo on February 06, 2018, 12:19:31 AM
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I know I am a little out with this type of pictures compared to what is presented to the usual in this type of contest with the Terragen software which is excellent for making photographic and realistic images.
In my case, the interest of continuing to make photographic pictures with 3D had completely disappeared in the summer of 2007, being realistic was no longer a motivation.
I know that maybe I will not win anything but the motivation and the pleasure is back and it's very pleasant. :D
Way t go Jo, nuttin wrong with your own drum beat...were it my image I'd say Oshyan's suggestion would almost be funnier
Quotemotivation and the pleasure is back and it's very pleasant
That's the spirit!
Quote from: Dune on February 06, 2018, 03:03:59 AM
Quotemotivation and the pleasure is back and it's very pleasant
That's the spirit!
Exactly!
I like the render and the cows. Looks funny and cool.
Photo quality renders will "talk" mostly to geeks. Average Joe will see a photo quality render and see it as a photo. He will never understand how hard to make one so he will just walk away from it. Your idea will be liked by more people because it is funny, cool and it is a new idea well executed or on the way...
8)
These are brilliant. See how far you can push the cow models I say. ;)
First image is the best. Work that one up.
Nice structures for certain Pierre
Quote from: Jo Kariboo on February 06, 2018, 12:19:31 AM
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. I know I am a little out with this type of pictures compared to what is presented to the usual in this type of contest with the Terragen software which is excellent for making photographic and realistic images.
In my case, the interest of continuing to make photographic pictures with 3D had completely disappeared in the summer of 2007, being realistic was no longer a motivation.
I know that maybe I will not win anything but the motivation and the pleasure is back and it's very pleasant. :D
Two thumbs up.
I really love this. It's bonkers and brilliant. Lemmings meets Worms, with cows. Now there's a game!
I think if you spent some time on the model textures, this could be an advert. Why not?
Quote from: Hetzen on February 06, 2018, 06:21:12 PM
I really love this. It's bonkers and brilliant. Lemmings meets Worms, with cows. Now there's a game!
I think if you spent some time on the model textures, this could be an advert. Why not?
Thank you Hetzen and everyone else for your comments and suggestions. Indeed I could buy a cow's object of better quality or more realistic, this one is free and it is far from being in high definition... but here I really like this contrast with the rest of the images. I can't improve what it is but I'll try in the following days to add some texture from TG, anyway I don't have anything like 3d software.
a other wip.
The cows are certainly telling a funny story. Sometimes this is exactly what we need. You could start your own children's book series with these cow renders, if you just find a writer (maybe yourself). Penguins are always a good choice too. :)
-Derek
Love the light in this. Very creative work! Children's book is a good idea, penguins too (I once made 3 children's books about three subjects; salmon, a tree and penguins. The latter sold really well).
Quote from: D.A. Bentley on February 07, 2018, 01:12:11 AM
...You could start your own children's book series with these cow renders...
Looking at the last image in particular, I have the impression that there may be some concerns letting some of the cows do what they do in a children's book. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
This is soo funny!! Cool, Pierre!!!
Quote from: Hannes on February 07, 2018, 03:03:53 AM
Quote from: D.A. Bentley on February 07, 2018, 01:12:11 AM
...You could start your own children's book series with these cow renders...
Looking at the last image in particular, I have the impression that there may be some concerns letting some of the cows do what they do in a children's book. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
This is soo funny!! Cool, Pierre!!!
Yes indeed the last is not too much for the kids. ;D
I'd figured out what animals got up to at a very young age. We'd always watch nature shows on a Sunday night and that inevitably involved mating being shown, and animals eating other animals.
Yes, inevitably children's books of today will portray ..."this is where your beef steak comes from" Images of artificial insemination, feeding troughs, perhaps a slaughterhouse.
Recently read about a poor cow who escaped her pasture and is running free with a bison herd. The concern is now is that she will mate and contaminate the gene pool of the bison...so I suppose they will capture her or worse.
Not starting an argument, my grandpa was a butcher. Long before biology class I learned bones and joints...ha :)
Pretty the image the last. :)
The cows will come back soon even if I did not manage to improve them. In the meantime here are some other renders.
I like the last one!
Last one for me as well. Nice rocks!
I want to see some silly goats scaling up those cliffs. ;)
Very nice, and I like the last one best too!
Oh NICE!
OK I put the cows on the side to use the eternal Sasha, the service posher that planted everywhere with his green sweater and his hands in his pockets!
objet rocks: P,Clavett
I like where you're taking this. I think some kind of foliage is still called for, get that bugger planting hee hee hee
Quote from: bobbystahr on February 18, 2018, 02:56:10 PM
I like where you're taking this. I think some kind of foliage is still called for, get that bugger planting hee hee hee
:D
Some render for fun! Anaway it's all for fun!
vegetation:xfrog, silva3d
Again!
I find these so amusing.....Bobby's cows are quarantined and yours wear cactus curlers ....and..............tricks with motorcycles....I can't stop laughing.......
Oh yes...nice rocks!
;D ;D ;D
;D ;D ;D Coool!!
I want what you're smoking or your doctor prescribed hee hee hee but really the shot sans cows from a worm's eye view
* 12-amuseroc10cc.jpg
is quite striking.
I love the visual gag in the last image there. 8) Kowtowing... cow-towing ;)
Hah! Somehow cactuses on (in??) cows is quite amusing. And the ones on bikes are great too, very whimsical!
- Oshyan
Thanks again for your comments and suggestions.
A big thank you again to mhaze and Dune for sharing files. As I mentioned at the beginning of this series it is a mix of different files with which I am currently working.
Rabbit Clif
Nice, 'cropped' like this. Almost like s snapshot.
Quote from: Dune on February 28, 2018, 01:50:32 AM
Nice, 'cropped' like this. Almost like s snapshot.
Thanks Dune. Yes it's look like a snapshot!
Oh, that one is spectacular! Those long, undulating formations are fantastic.
- Oshyan
Quote from: Oshyan on March 02, 2018, 04:52:51 PM
Oh, that one is spectacular! Those long, undulating formations are fantastic.
- Oshyan
Thank you Oshyan!
That's true! Looks fantastic!
Looking good, I like the close up and the vertical strata but I think I prefer the tower shots.
Quote from: cyphyr on March 07, 2018, 08:52:18 AM
Looking good, I like the close up and the vertical strata but I think I prefer the tower shots.
Thanks cyphyr!
« the man with rabbit »
The light of his 3 renders is a free inspiration from Rueben Wu's photographs.
https://mymodernmet.com/reuben-wu-lux-noctis/
Terrific lighting! Spotlight?
I think I saw the same photos recently as well. Terrifically creative in the originals, and a great idea to reproduce in Terragen!
- Oshyan
Thanks Dune and Oshyan!
@ Dune
I utilise for this series a light source for the clif and a sunlight for the clouds.
Cool!!! And very unusual.
I changed the setting of light source to get closer a filtered source with a silk.
Third is definitely my favorite and GREAT STUFF! I really like what you've done here. I would dump the guy and rabbit though and add a more serious greenery cover. Not too much, few trees, shrub, grasses... in designated areas, not to compromise the design and focus.
These are great. I think I prefer the previous set with softer shadows. Also I agree with Ulco, get rid of the guy and rabbit.
I like this sort of lighting. It reminds me a bit of some shots of landscape photographer Mark Littlejohn. Worth a look at his work when you get time. http://marklittlejohnphotography.com
Thanks all for comments, suggestions and link!
Trying effect of long exposure in water and ... strange light under water.
stars by moodflow
Wonderful imagery start to finish. :)
Quote from: luvsmuzik on March 09, 2018, 12:22:25 PM
Wonderful imagery start to finish. :)
Thanks luvsmuzik! :)
Beautiful!
Very nice
Thanks Danny and mhaze! :)
#27 is just stunning! Wow!
Very nice renders. 8)
Wonderful colors and mood!
This is a very nice un earthly image but to be frank I like amuseroc20 a lot more
Thanks all again for comments! :)
The number 29 is a variant of the number 17 and the number 30 is a new image of the long exposure series.
I think I'll stop and rework a WIP I posted here. Currently I have some ideas, but what would be best to participate in the contest? ::)
The number 1, why not. :P
Hard to make decision, what? I'd go for the first one (29) although the other image looks cool as well.
Quote from: Hannes on March 14, 2018, 05:46:57 AM
Hard to make decision, what? I'd go for the first one (29) although the other image looks cool as well.
Thanks Hannes for the suggestion, I joked because I do not know what the judges would like to see or not. It would help me not to take an image that would simply be excluded from the start.
A first experience on my part of a glowing beach.
Shrub and herbs: SILVA 3D
trees: XFROG
starry sky: moodflow
Beutiful. And very unique.
Wow, great water sparkles and the scene continues to acquire awesomeness!
That's very nice. I really like the concept and lighting, but I'm not so sure about the sparkles. Can you make that more subtle and like it's in the water? They seem to float somehow.
Beautiful. I love the camera angles and focal length.
Thanks you Bobby, Hannes and mhaze!
Quote from: Dune on March 17, 2018, 02:34:18 AM
That's very nice. I really like the concept and lighting, but I'm not so sure about the sparkles. Can you make that more subtle and like it's in the water? They seem to float somehow.
Thanks Dune. I will try to improve the effect of water. Currently everything is under water, it is perhaps due to transparency that gives us the impression of floating above the water. By eliminating perhaps the brightest it would be less apparent.
According to real photographs of this phenomenon one has the impression that these particles float on the water. Sincerly I never see this phenomen in real.
https://www.google.ca/search?client=firefox-b&dcr=0&biw=1900&bih=915&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=nAOtWrXKCcW0sQXZl5M4&q=glowing+beach&oq=glowing+beach&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0i19k1l10.4977.6898.0.7382.5.4.0.1.1.0.95.341.4.4.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.5.346...0j0i30k1.0.sCw9x4MbPfg#imgrc=f5aaqqWLI-RiUM:
I think it's nicer if it's softer, like this. Or it takes too much attention.
Quote from: Dune on March 17, 2018, 09:39:16 AM
I think it's nicer if it's softer, like this. Or it takes too much attention.
No it is another possibility that is excellent too, the problem is that I can not do this effect without post prod, I have not managed to make this effect of blur. Currently I do another rendering with more vegetation and a little fog just to see.
Ulco, I'm not sure, but I guess your example shows a long exposure image. But maybe this might look cool as well. This could be done by adding a blueish self illuminated shader masked by a PF and maybe some painted shaders to the water.
I added vegetations and I removed all the small luminous particles and modified a little the shore with light sources. I made a rendering with a little fog, but it's not terrible and above all it adds nothing.
Ok, I stop here before crunching the computer out the window.
See you soon.
That last one is a real beauty!
Agree with Andy, having the veg added gives it context as well...and I stopped mine for the same reason in addition to being happy with it.
Thanks Andy and Bobby
A other different settin for the water.
Quote from: Jo Kariboo on March 20, 2018, 02:40:19 PM
A other different settin for the water.
add some luminosity to this water similar to the first one and you've got magic
Quote from: bobbystahr on March 20, 2018, 04:50:20 PM
Quote from: Jo Kariboo on March 20, 2018, 02:40:19 PM
A other different settin for the water.
add some luminosity to this water similar to the first one and you've got magic
Thanks Bobby!
Ok I'm done with the shore for this one. Here are the last two pictures.
I am considering for the moment to send for the challenge one of the last 4.
Thank you for sharing with us and you have a difficult decision before you! :)
Indeed difficult. I'd prefer the very last one.
They're great..... but I'd probably prefer one without the top branches. At least the two small branches in the lower right area should go, they kind of seem duplicated and hang in the air, sort of. Difficult decision, indeed. And to be very honest, there were iterations before these that I really liked (21, 23, 26)... but I'm not a judge.
35-amuseroc13h12d gets my vote
Those foreground branches are indeed not to be considered as 'photo realistic'.
That said you have some really good looking images in this thread, so you definitely
have some cool options to choose from.
Quote from: Jo Kariboo on March 16, 2018, 07:59:54 AM
A first experience on my part of a glowing beach.
Shrub and herbs: SILVA 3D
trees: XFROG
starry sky: moodflow
Awesome! Looks like those one types of jellyfish all washing up on shore during their mating season.
Quote from: Dune on March 22, 2018, 10:20:14 AM
They're great..... but I'd probably prefer one without the top branches. At least the two small branches in the lower right area should go, they kind of seem duplicated and hang in the air, sort of. Difficult decision, indeed. And to be very honest, there were iterations before these that I really liked (21, 23, 26)... but I'm not a judge.
Staying with this shape 21 is indeed worthy and I think 26 is well worth exploring but time's compacting...for this comp at least.
Thank you all for taking the time to give your opinion. I realize that there is not an picture that officially stands out of the lot and which is unanimous. I will possibly reworked on one of the last versions not that I find it higher at the level of the clif of previous ones but that it has at the level of the composition and its elements some more accomplished thing and it is necessary that I realize there is little time left to work.
I like the last render the best as well and have to agree with J Meyer that your near tree models are looking very cg. It could be a lighting thing to fix?
Quote from: Hetzen on March 23, 2018, 01:16:59 PM
I like the last render the best as well and have to agree with J Meyer that your near tree models are looking very cg. It could be a lighting thing to fix?
Thanks J Meyer, Hetzen and all the others, finally for the image that I am posted for the challenge, I eliminated the trees in foreground and branch near the water.
The contest ends soon and although the images that follow are not part of my favorite, I still wanted to share them.
Some of these are very cool! Thanks for sharing.
What Ulco said.
Good luck, Jo!
Lovely images and some interesting and original lighting.
Each one is is wonderful; alive with color and mysterious in mood. Fine Art indeed!
Again, I would hate to have to choose just one! What talent! :)
Thank all again! :D
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Very nice image-s. The lighting is as always great :)
a other one!
Yes your lighting is very photographic. That sun on the horizon in the desert with the wisps of cloud looks very convincing.
Best of luck to you, and thank you for some laughter just when I, for one, needed it. :)
Thanks Hetzen and luvsmuzik!
Two others!
Those overhangs are veeery nice!
Good work, Jo.
Some great rocks there.