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Title: Canyon river
Post by: nvseal on August 25, 2008, 11:05:13 PM
Slight postwork. This also uses moodflow's new lighting setup which I've been tweaking. I don't think this turned out as well as I would have hoped -- I did forget to turn soft shadows on.  :-[

http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs34/f/2008/238/f/3/Canyon_River_by_nvseal.jpg (http://fc01.deviantart.com/fs34/f/2008/238/f/3/Canyon_River_by_nvseal.jpg)
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Post by: fmtoffolo on August 25, 2008, 11:13:18 PM
 :o veryyyyy veryyyy niceeee
there are some strange artifacts in the clouds. and the trees look kinda bright for my taste
but wow!
amazing render!
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Post by: RArcher on August 25, 2008, 11:33:01 PM
I love love love the atmosphere!  Some of the textures and trees almost look like thick paint.  The displacements are all very nice as well.  Really nice job on this one.
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Post by: mrwho on August 26, 2008, 12:18:03 AM
cool. I've tried the new lighting technique once, and it turned out horrible. gotta keep trying i suppose
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Post by: old_blaggard on August 26, 2008, 12:26:38 AM
Nice job.  Try adding some reflectivity to the rocks (just a little...).
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Post by: Saurav on August 26, 2008, 01:03:31 AM
This is looking great, only problem is the banding on the sky.
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Post by: inkydigit on August 26, 2008, 06:17:27 AM
super scene....agree about the splotchy clouds, but even so this is gorgeous!
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Post by: rcallicotte on August 26, 2008, 08:54:49 AM
Great point of view.  Like the scene overall and wonder a little about the clouds, but that wasn't my first concern.  The trees on the right are a little too luminous in the leaves.  Beautiful scene.
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Post by: PorcupineFloyd on August 26, 2008, 12:04:40 PM
Great scene but I'd increase haze or bluesky density to get rid of this strange feeling that clouds are too sharp.

Canyon is pure awesomeness.
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Post by: sjefen on August 26, 2008, 12:22:13 PM
Really cool image nvseal.

I have a suggestion for the clouds. Try reduce the "Fake Internal Scattering" from 0.25 to something like 0.05

- Terje
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Post by: MacGyver on August 26, 2008, 12:40:43 PM
 :o :o :o
Really fantastic! Reminds me of my favourite paintings from the 17th century or so, impressive colours and forest! :)
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Post by: Cyber-Angel on August 26, 2008, 06:22:17 PM
Could some one explain to my the lighting method used? The theory as I understand it is to disable the sun (Image goes black) and use GI as the only light source, I have tried this and can not get it to work! The only way I can get any illumination in the scene is to change form GI to Ambient Occlusion, but there are no shadows, unless that is the idea or I'm completely wide of the mark and am missing some thing important?

Regards to you.

Cyber-Angel  ;D         
Title: Re: Canyon river
Post by: moodflow on August 26, 2008, 09:03:07 PM
Very nice work indeed!  Looks like it was an undertaking, but well worth the effort.  I see a few tweaks you could make in the lighting to make it even better.

As for the GI technique, I've recently found its a balance between sunlight strength and the GI pushing through.  You have to manually change the settings until it all fits.  Additionally, the crop render will show GI differently that the full scene, so keep that in mind.
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Post by: Phylloxera on August 27, 2008, 05:50:38 AM
Good idea but I think that this image is perfectible! The clouds (lower part), the trees (the roots are seen), some are almost in the vacuum!
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Post by: Will on August 27, 2008, 06:39:41 AM
nothing that hasn't been said, great job!
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Post by: j_petrucci on August 29, 2008, 02:08:55 PM
Impressive work! I particularly like the clouds..how much depth did you use for them?
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Post by: MacGyver on August 29, 2008, 04:30:26 PM
My boss saw the picture at work, he was really impressed how realistic it was... he also said it looked a bit like oil paint. So thumbs up from him also :D
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Post by: Marcos Silveira on August 29, 2008, 08:03:59 PM
HOLY SHIT!!!!! :o :o :o
MAGNIFICENT!!!! How the explorers are supposed to win the gap???
Man, prepare your rappel equipment right now!!! ;)
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Post by: Seth on August 29, 2008, 08:10:58 PM
very good render !
lovely mood ^^