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Title: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Dune on January 15, 2023, 10:29:24 AM
;D
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Hannes on January 15, 2023, 11:21:31 AM
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Mahnmut on January 15, 2023, 12:17:14 PM
Dad doesn´t look impressed.
Nice detail on teh sand-cliff.
Cheers,
J
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: pixelpusher636 on January 15, 2023, 01:52:01 PM
Agreed the sediment layers are a nice touch. I'm not sure Dad heard him!  ;D
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: masonspappy on January 15, 2023, 04:16:49 PM
Did the boy catch a snake or eel?
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Dune on January 16, 2023, 02:22:01 AM
An eel. He must have a strong grip! I only had dad at first, but got the idea of making this boy with an eel, and planted him in this scene. Dad is a miser, not liking his job to check the traps and repair them.

It's too bad the water takes so long to render, this whole thing took 4 hours, without the water it would have been 30 mins I expect. Makes experimenting a long job.

What I did notice, however, that when I made this into a moonlit scene, with sun at strength 1 and ozone up to 10, it didn't take as long as with sun at 5, under an hour. Would the strength of the sun influence the render time? I have to check that out....
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Hannes on January 16, 2023, 04:24:38 AM
I guess, it's something about the reflection. The flatter the camera angle, the more reflections need to be computed (?). And maybe with a moonlit scene, there's less reflecting stuff?
(some questionable wisdom from an old fart with no idea... ;) )
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Dune on January 16, 2023, 06:09:47 AM
I'll check again what happened, would be strange if less sun strength (=moon) and ozone would decrease render times that much. Perhaps I did something else too, and forgot.
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: mhaze on January 18, 2023, 04:47:47 AM
Luv it!
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: zaxxon on January 20, 2023, 12:38:21 PM
Very nice work on the stream banks and the water in general.  Too nice of a scene to add the cartoon captions imo, but I guess the would-be image snatchers will be discouraged.  
Title: Re: Look what I caught, dad!
Post by: Dune on January 22, 2023, 01:55:22 AM
Yeah, I'm afraid I can't post anything I want without any form of watermark or reduced quality. It's my sole living, so I depend on selling images like this.