First try to match this photo for fun... will be continued, as there's much not good enough yet.
It looks already very nice :)
Wow, that's impressive. You of course need brighter blue subsurface for true accuracy to the picture, but your image is already surprisingly close. Great snow/ice shader you've come up with here!
- Oshyan
Very (n)ice :)
Great realism already!!! I will follow this one :)
Nice work Dune. Looks very nice!
ha, i just was about to try this too :D
amazing!
very nice work buddy.....is the terrain procedural or image map?
Quoteha, i just was about to try this too
Why don't you?! Would be interesting as a comparison.
@dhavalmistry: I had two versions, one with a painted shader, but I couldn't get the top of the valley to round of, due to the 'black-very dark gray' gradient between painted-not-painted, so I quickly painted a simple gray map in PS with a just off-black background. There must be other ways, but this worked the fastest. The rest is procedural.
Here's version 2. I didn't want to exactly mirror the photo, but get something quite similar. So I added the gulls and some more cracks.
Here's the mask (tiff saved as 95% quality jpg) for anyone wishing to have a go. I made it 3000x3000 I think.
Hmm, not sure what you did for this 2nd version but I kind of feel the first was a bit more successful somehow. I think maybe the lighting/atmospherics? I can see the terrain shape has changed a bit too, and at the bottom where the ice meets the water on the far bend to the right, I think the previous version was a bit more convincing. *shrug* They both look good. :D
- Oshyan
The first one I did with a painted shader, the second with the mask. And in the first there were still some fake stones, which somehow turned out as negatives (a minus sign in the size perhaps). I don't like the glassy bits in the first, they're too bright and give it too much 'mess'. Although they do look like ice a bit. Ah, and the water level is different. I'm now working on a completely procedural snaking ice river, no mask, no painted shader.
wow, excellent recreation!
excellent render Dune
I know this is only wip but the snow is very specular compared to the original image.