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Title: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 08:48:27 AM
Well, it didn't turn out quite as fantastic as I had hoped for during the test renders but that is too late to change now.  :) I should have lowered the cloud altitude before rendering. These clouds are an altered version of a cloud tgc that DH posted sometime last year. 29 hours to render.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: j meyer on March 02, 2008, 08:58:49 AM
Convincingly realistic! 8)
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 02, 2008, 09:01:25 AM
Awesome! Love the huge cloudformations :) You're right about their altitude, but it's not really disturbing...
Good image formation and composition by the way, the vegetation looks nice as well.
Is it possible to take a look at your clouds?
Thanks in advance and keep up the good work :)

Regards, Martin
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Seth on March 02, 2008, 09:07:50 AM
great clouds formation ! a little darker clouds maybe ?
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Post by: dhavalmistry on March 02, 2008, 09:12:45 AM
its growing alrite...
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Moose on March 02, 2008, 09:27:19 AM
Very convincing indeed. You can almost smell the impending rain in the air. I like also the pov, with only the tops of the hills showing.

Quote from: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 08:48:27 AM29 hours to render.

But this doesn't mean anything to me... or to Jack or to Mary. What were your main settings and machine specs? :P

Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: dhavalmistry on March 02, 2008, 09:34:53 AM
oh I just noticed that you gave credit to me....thank you very much....and if you dont mind posting the unaltered TGC (I have been looking for it).
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: gastar on March 02, 2008, 09:52:20 AM
nice work... I like the camera position in top of the trees....  ;D

and the clouds..... I like your clouds....

Gastar
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Post by: ozijon on March 02, 2008, 10:26:34 AM
very nicely done good job
John
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Post by: Phylloxera on March 02, 2008, 12:57:36 PM
Great work ! I like this image ! Really natural !! (http://smileys.sur-la-toile.com/repository/Respect/bravo-applaudi-147.GIF)
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: old_blaggard on March 02, 2008, 03:11:59 PM
Fantastic job!  The distribution and detail is great!
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Post by: Will on March 02, 2008, 04:02:32 PM
Nice, the only thing that bothers me is those mountains in the back.
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Post by: rcallicotte on March 02, 2008, 05:00:47 PM
Nice perspective  Excellent lighting on the trees.  Great bunches of clouds...good displacements.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 05:17:39 PM
Thanks for the comments. This isn't yet were I would like it to be but it is a good start. I just can't seem to get the sharp dark edges like there are in the real thing. About the background hills, I lef those as they were because I was trying to hurry out a render of the clouds.  ;D
DH, here is the tgc. I think this is the orginal one you posted.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 02, 2008, 05:31:36 PM
Quote from: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 05:17:39 PM
Thanks for the comments. This isn't yet were I would like it to be but it is a good start. I just can't seem to get the sharp dark edges like there are in the real thing. About the background hills, I lef those as they were because I was trying to hurry out a render of the clouds.  ;D
DH, here is the tgc. I think this is the orginal one you posted.

Getting dark edges is quite easy actually:

Choose dark cloud color and scatter color, like 0.1 and 0.4
Then increase fake internal scattering so that only dark cloud edges remain.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 05:41:25 PM
I will have to try that. Could you possibly post an example of what this can achieve? This is what I'm trying to get.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Seth on March 02, 2008, 07:00:17 PM
goddamn cloud !!!
if someone can do that, i'll pay for the tgd ^^

reminds me of a render from Luc Bianco
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: dhavalmistry on March 02, 2008, 09:56:31 PM
Quote from: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 05:17:39 PM
Thanks for the comments. This isn't yet were I would like it to be but it is a good start. I just can't seem to get the sharp dark edges like there are in the real thing. About the background hills, I lef those as they were because I was trying to hurry out a render of the clouds.  ;D
DH, here is the tgc. I think this is the orginal one you posted.


thanx for the tgc
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Post by: rcallicotte on March 02, 2008, 11:14:26 PM
Thanks for the clip file.

@seth - How much?  In Euros?   :P
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 03, 2008, 03:25:59 AM
Quote from: nvseal on March 02, 2008, 05:41:25 PM
I will have to try that. Could you possibly post an example of what this can achieve? This is what I'm trying to get.

Well, someone seems to know how ;)
And of course, it's Luc!

(http://lucbianco.free.fr/2bgal/img/T2_2007/TGD823.jpg)

I'd also pay for a pdf/tutorial with his knowhow :)

Martin
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Post by: Seth on March 03, 2008, 07:00:44 AM
yeahhhh... told you it reminds me of his render ^^
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Tangled-Universe on March 03, 2008, 07:27:59 AM
Quote from: seth93 on March 03, 2008, 07:00:44 AM
yeahhhh... told you it reminds me of his render ^^

oops..sorry...did miss that specific sentence from your previous post :)

well...for anyone who didn't know what you meant (can't hardly imagine), they now do! ;D
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: monks on March 03, 2008, 07:44:14 AM
Holy crap, that's one cloud!

monks
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: rcallicotte on March 04, 2008, 01:33:00 PM
That image with the cloud looks almost exactly like the photo.  Great find!  And great work from Luc!
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: sjefen on March 06, 2008, 07:17:44 PM
Great one nvseal.

Did you use any imape map's in this one for the clouds?
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: nvseal on March 06, 2008, 09:15:32 PM
Quote from: sjefen on March 06, 2008, 07:17:44 PM
Great one nvseal.

Did you use any imape map's in this one for the clouds?

No, all procedural.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Phylloxera on March 07, 2008, 06:05:11 AM
Agree with Seth93 - One question : the trees are a postwork or an objects ??
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: nvseal on March 07, 2008, 09:13:52 AM
Quote from: Phylloxera on March 07, 2008, 06:05:11 AM
Agree with Seth93 - One question : the trees are a postwork or an objects ??

The trees and bushes are objects.
Title: Re: Growing Thunderhead
Post by: Phylloxera on March 07, 2008, 12:23:21 PM
Quote from: nvseal on March 07, 2008, 09:13:52 AM
Quote from: Phylloxera on March 07, 2008, 06:05:11 AM
Agree with Seth93 - One question : the trees are a postwork or an objects ??

The trees and bushes are objects.
Really naturals !!