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Title: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: Mr_Lamppost on September 07, 2007, 09:29:11 PM
Just finished this, I was trying to capture the colours you get in the sky a bit before sunset on some overcast days. 

I have the feeling that it needs something, I thought about a ship but decide the cliché (Cheese), factor ruled this out;  Possibly a pier or jetty maybe with a lighthouse at the end but I wll need time to model this

Ideas.
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: nvseal on September 07, 2007, 09:41:46 PM
Love it. The ocean color is great and those clouds look very very nice. tgc?
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: Buzzzzz on September 07, 2007, 09:59:44 PM
Super realistic, less is sometimes more.
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: rcallicotte on September 07, 2007, 11:03:19 PM
I love this.  Remember a similar scene when I went swimming in the Pacific years ago off the coast of Southern Mexico.  This is very realistic.  Good job!
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: Mr_Lamppost on September 07, 2007, 11:26:37 PM
No problem nvseal.

I said it was simple  Default atmosphere, default lake object (Ocean), Nothing very fancy in the clouds.  Here's the tgd:

The cloud settings work quite well as a general overcast, here is a low resolution/quality test render of the same scene.  The only difference is that I moved the sun.

Heading 120
Elevation 40

Oops! Sorry not quite a default atmosphere I remember I upped the quality settings  ;D

Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: moodflow on September 08, 2007, 01:58:28 PM
Very Nice Mr. Lamppost!
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: sjefen on September 08, 2007, 02:02:04 PM
Good one. I especially like your clouds.
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: efflux on September 10, 2007, 01:38:50 AM
I like this a lot. Very nice clouds.
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: Volker Harun on September 10, 2007, 05:02:27 AM
Good!
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: EBAndrew on September 10, 2007, 07:35:58 PM
Cool image... totally has a lot of mood to it.

With all these pretty water renders I've been seeing lately it really make me want to do something... too bad I don't have the patience for water rendering. :P
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: Mr_Lamppost on September 10, 2007, 07:53:26 PM
QuoteWith all these pretty water renders I've been seeing lately it really make me want to do something... too bad I don't have the patience for water rendering.

I didn't watch this one render, I went out and left my PC working but I didn't notice the water slowing things down horrendously on the low quality test renders.

Water can definitely be worth the wait. 
Title: Re: Sunset ocean - Dead simple but loads of mood
Post by: EBAndrew on September 11, 2007, 06:32:37 PM
I wonder if they improved the render times in TG2... I remember 0.9, and almost any water you had would destroy your rendering time. Maybe I'll have to give it a second look.