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Title: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: Mindscape on March 21, 2007, 03:14:28 AM
...Playing around with various shaders.
What is not seen is my failed attempt at a starfield.
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: rcallicotte on March 21, 2007, 09:29:26 AM
Keep trying.

About these "golf balls" - they resemble broken dinosaur eggs, I think.  I like it.  Good perspective, good lighting, and nice planet in the background.
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: old_blaggard on March 21, 2007, 09:43:25 AM
I like some of the crazy displacement that happened to your fake stones.  It might not be what you were looking for, but it did turn out well :).
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: Dark Fire on March 21, 2007, 02:54:16 PM
Perhaps you could create a story about the weird stones - the broken dinasour eggs idea is good...
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: neon22 on March 22, 2007, 06:12:10 AM
Did someone say Dinosaur eggs :-)
(Still working on this one)
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: dhavalmistry on March 22, 2007, 08:55:21 AM
Quote from: neon22 on March 22, 2007, 06:12:10 AM
Did someone say Dinosaur eggs :-)
(Still working on this one)

good job man....are the cracked egg shells done in TG2??
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: old_blaggard on March 22, 2007, 09:13:20 AM
No, they were done in an external editor - you can tell by the way the edges aren't curved.  Nice image, by the way ;).
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: rcallicotte on March 22, 2007, 11:50:02 AM
Neon!  Sweet!  All we need are a couple of T-Rex and a couple of triceratops.
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: Mindscape on March 22, 2007, 03:40:22 PM
@neon22
...In the Land of Broken Ping-Pong Balls

lol
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: Dark Fire on March 22, 2007, 04:20:21 PM
How many dinasours came from those eggs!?
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: neon22 on March 22, 2007, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: Dark Fire on March 22, 2007, 04:20:21 PM
How many dinasours came from those eggs!?
Well thats the trick isn't it. I am so trying NOT to put a dragon in there :-)
I figure its going to be something like:
"The Mating season is OVER" or
"Omelettes were on the menu YESTERDAY" or something like that :-)
Maybe a figure holding a BIG wooden spoon in FG.

Egg from Daz - somewhere - morphing eg I think.
Can't get to close - no smoothing
ONly 1 egg in there. aren't populations great...  Newer version coming after weekend
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: neon22 on March 25, 2007, 12:15:02 AM
Excerpt from Log (Exp17: day 33):

" Over the many seasons since our intervention the hatching ground has become quite crowded.
The best time to begin observation is in the early morning before the eggs warm up and start hatching.
(As you know from Day 7 and the events surrounding Emil's tragic demise, arriving late can be very hazardous.)
This is our last photo, taken as the fog lifts, on the day after the last eggs had hatched.
Overall its been a very successful season and we are all looking forward to next year's expedition.
Charles..."

Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: VorpalBlade on March 25, 2007, 02:37:59 AM
Quote from: neon22 on March 22, 2007, 06:01:09 PM
Quote from: Dark Fire on March 22, 2007, 04:20:21 PM
How many dinasours came from those eggs!?
Well thats the trick isn't it. I am so trying NOT to put a dragon in there :-)
I figure its going to be something like:
"The Mating season is OVER" or
"Omelettes were on the menu YESTERDAY" or something like that :-)
Maybe a figure holding a BIG wooden spoon in FG.

Egg from Daz - somewhere - morphing eg I think.
Can't get to close - no smoothing
ONly 1 egg in there. aren't populations great...  Newer version coming after weekend

I think putting anything in there would ruin the suspense. The cool thing about that visual is wondering what came out of all those eggs. Your mind makes up a million little stories.
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: ozijon on March 25, 2007, 03:36:44 AM
nice job and yes its good the way it is well done
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: rcallicotte on March 25, 2007, 09:19:39 AM
Excellent.  The only thing that throws me off is the sky directly above - the clouds look fake.  Otherwise, it feels like an entrance to the land before time.
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: Mindscape on March 28, 2007, 04:47:53 PM
Here's another render with the stone shaders...

You can also view it at
http://www.terranuts.com/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=26022&cat=688
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: Will on March 28, 2007, 04:53:40 PM
both great images, good job man :)

Regards,

Will
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: old_blaggard on March 28, 2007, 05:51:55 PM
I like both your clouds and your stones.  Good job.
Title: Re: Surreal Landsapes
Post by: neon22 on March 31, 2007, 05:35:57 AM
Can't seem to stop playing with this one. :-)
But this is the last.

(Some errors in latest release - leaves part of the image out -also having problems with another file I'm working on - will add an entry in Support forum I think.)
(see top-left - block missing with floating rock,
  and in middle-right mountain cutoff in sharp horiz line)

Anyway. mountains now have a bit more strata visible, the mud is a bit better, and I think the cloud layers are working better.
(file in File sharing forum.)