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Title: Alpine Waters
Post by: adit on August 17, 2007, 02:41:19 PM
I decided to render something to cool myself from the heat wave going on here.

Rendered at 4000x2200 (then cropped), 9-10 hour render and GI turned off.

http://adit.deviantart.com/art/Alpine-Waters-62564135 (http://adit.deviantart.com/art/Alpine-Waters-62564135)
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: Tangled-Universe on August 17, 2007, 02:55:31 PM
Oh this is a really good render!
The water looks really really cold  :D Very nice choice of watercolour and good reflectionsettings.

The Alpine-fractal looks nice, though there are some very spiky areas.
Perhaps you've done additional displacements with high colour/displacement roughness and/or high spike limiting? If so, you might try reducing them.

Clouds and lighting are looking good as well. Only thing about the clouds/atmo is the quality.
I see you've rendered at 4000x2200, perhaps it'd be better to render it at a far lower resolution and to double the atmo/clouds samples to get rid of the grain.

Last thing is the composition: I'd raise the camera so the water would be covering about 1/3 of the image. This will look a lot more interesting.

Don't know if this is the final version, if not...I'm looking forward to see it :) Keep it up!

Regards,
Martin
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: old_blaggard on August 17, 2007, 03:56:50 PM
Beautiful lighting!  Great colors in the sky and nice looking terrain.  Your clouds are nice, although they could have benefitted from a little more quality.
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: rcallicotte on August 17, 2007, 04:06:32 PM
Magnificent work.  Not to sound rendo-ish, but it really is.
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: Will on August 17, 2007, 04:40:10 PM
I agree with T-U, other than that great job :)
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: Superiorgamer on August 17, 2007, 04:41:49 PM
*sniff* If only I could get my base images to look so good i'd be able to do quite abit afterwards. (I do alot more photoshop with my terrain then terragen ;) )

Amazing man! Looks awesome!! I love the texture and quality of the landscape!
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: RealUser on August 17, 2007, 04:49:32 PM
Wonderfull sight!
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: efflux on August 17, 2007, 05:17:40 PM
Nice work. Makes for cool reflections.
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: adit on August 18, 2007, 09:18:18 AM
Thanks for the comments guys! I especially appreciate Martin's (Tangled-Universe's) criticisms. Though, I won't be editing this particular piece, I'm going to make something similar soon and will keep what you guys have said in mind.
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: sjefen on August 18, 2007, 11:44:31 AM
Awsome render. You really made it feel cold to ;)
Title: Re: Alpine Waters
Post by: ThinkPink on August 18, 2007, 12:39:04 PM
Wow .... great job! Wonderful render!