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Title: Heavy Sky
Post by: Seth on May 02, 2013, 11:59:54 AM
It 's been a long time I didn't post any render.
So... here is the result of some testing.
Comments and critics are, as usual, most welcome !
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Icegrip on May 02, 2013, 12:35:53 PM
Wow, really nice realism right there! Nothing to critic on.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Dune on May 02, 2013, 01:10:38 PM
Yeah, very nice, Seth! Great sky and realism.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Seth on May 02, 2013, 02:12:36 PM
thanks guys ^^
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: bla bla 2 on May 02, 2013, 02:18:51 PM
Sympas  ;)
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: zaxxon on May 02, 2013, 04:04:24 PM
I really like the depth and 'weight' of the sky. This is a render that truly appeals to me, very well done!
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: inkydigit on May 02, 2013, 05:44:44 PM
The clouds are superb, and the subtle way you have handled the light and atmo make this a winner for me...
The terrain shapes, detailing and the water only add to this near perfect render.  Beautiful !
Jason
:)
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: chris_x422 on May 02, 2013, 06:31:15 PM
One of your best yet Frank! just fabulous!
The clouds are amazing.

Chris
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: cyphyr on May 02, 2013, 08:51:55 PM
great work, very well done  :D
Richard
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: TheBadger on May 03, 2013, 12:07:08 AM
Welcome home Seth.

The image is very good! But do some more animations too! Im missing me some good new animations!
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Jo Kariboo on May 03, 2013, 11:31:17 AM
C'est beau !!! En plus du ciel et l'eau j'aime bien la distribution de la neige et de la végétation. Beau travail en post-prod aussi.  :)
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Henry Blewer on May 03, 2013, 12:08:12 PM
Quote from: Icegrip on May 02, 2013, 12:35:53 PM
Wow, really nice realism right there! Nothing to critic on.

Seconded.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Hannes on May 03, 2013, 01:03:18 PM
Great! The sky is fantastic and the terrain as well. Maybe a bit too much contrast for my taste.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Seth on May 03, 2013, 05:12:47 PM
thanks all for your kindness !

Hannes : I agree with you. I am not happy with the postwork I did, as I find it too contrasted too. It is the first time I contrast so much a render and I think it will be the last. ;)
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Hannes on May 05, 2013, 10:31:12 AM
Could you post the original render? I'd love to see it without pw.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Seth on May 05, 2013, 03:09:51 PM
Of course ^^

Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Seth on May 05, 2013, 03:14:59 PM
Here is the first WIP.
the sky is almost the same, the lighting too.
But the terrain a bit boring.

I prefer that teint of blue though.

edit : the second one is the original without postwork

Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Hannes on May 06, 2013, 12:33:46 AM
Looks great! I prefer the first one (without postwork)
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: yossam on May 06, 2013, 03:19:05 AM
I agree with Hannes, definitly.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: efflux on May 06, 2013, 06:57:37 AM
Very nice. You seem to have go light coming through the clouds to illuminate some of them really well which is what happens in reality. I've found this to be tricky because of overall eveness of cloud fractal shapes which leads to completely blocking light too much at many angles.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Hetzen on May 06, 2013, 03:53:01 PM
Really nice work Seth. Thanks for showing how the neutral render can be manipulated. 203 hrs sounds like an optimisation challenge, but that effect you have is noisless.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: TheBadger on May 06, 2013, 10:11:34 PM
Quote203 hrs
Where did it say that? I cant find it. Is that correct?
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: Seth on May 07, 2013, 05:54:19 AM
Yes it is. But I didn't say it here :)
That render was a stress test on stability.
So there is uselessly high values on several settings (like details, atmosphere etc...), the render was paused and restart at least ten times, I watched movies, played videogames and was websurfing during rendering, etc...
Terragen kept on rendering, without any errors.
Title: Re: Heavy Sky
Post by: inkydigit on May 07, 2013, 10:53:54 AM
I forgot to ask, are the trees procedural, Franck?
the render is beautiful, 203 hours... you have patience!!
:))
Jason