I'm not sure why but this one just came together really easy. Normally I struggle with creating decent rock faces, but I am enormously pleased with this entire image. Started with a rough terrain from GeoControl 2 and then really worked the displacements. Bushes are Moodflows bush pack which works really well in scenes of this type. The slight background depth blur was created based off of a separate distance shader grayscale render. My reasoning for adding it was to highlight the edge of the cliff walls as that was my main focus point for the image.
Thanks for taking a look and any comments or critiques you may have.
-Ryan
Fantastic cliff!
This looks really sweet! Nice work. 8)
Really nice work with the vegetation and the cliff walls. The color choices are exceptional. My only complaint is about some of the background landforms - they look a little too straight and clean-cut to me.
super scene....I like the pov especially, and the rock structures!
This looks amazing, I think it's the light that makes it look so realistic. As others have mentioned I think the distant (not the middle) landform looks unnatural, especially compared to the ultra realistic foreground.
Good work.
Very good colour balance and POV.
Great stuff!
monks
Great terrain work.
Great scene! I can almost see the cliff birds fly to their nest :)
You may admit now, that it's a photo :P
I can't distinguish the first bushes that are blurred (on the left) from reality... wow! Agreed though about the background, the mountain has two exactly parallel lines in it which, at least to me, look a bit too perfect.
This is amazing and very realistic
Awesome scene :D
I agree, one of the most realistic rockscapes I've seen in TG. Fantasticly done.
RArcher! Shhhhh! What's the shutter speed? ;)
What everyone else said!! WOW! ::)
great work
I agree those rocks look great! I think the solution to what people have mentioned between the foreground rocks and backround would be to apply some depth of field simulation. If you could slightly blur the clif face closest to the bush background I think it would help tie the two together.
Only problem I have know idea how to do that type of blurring in Terragen2. I wish I could suggest a way for you.
Congratulations, fantastic image! Image of the month for me.
Cheers,
Frank
Thanks for the comments everyone. Personally I love the mountain in the background as it contrasts nicely with the super details on the foreground. From looking around at pictures online of some Grand Canyon areas, it really doesn't seem too far fetched a shape at all.
One of these days soon, I'm going to study your tgd's and read that tutorial!!! Always fun to investigate your landscapes, through the looking glass..
amazing render!!! the lighting is so realistic!
On the edge of reality ...fantastic!
Like I said before Archer, those rocks are something else.
Congratulations on getting published, Ryan.
Again congratulations Ryan :)
Awesome rockstructures and good use of DOF. I guess you had some inspiration from Martchi's work?
I don't understand why I missed this image some weeks ago by the way. I've been way too busy for Terragen last months but always kept an eye on the image gallery.
Whatever, am glad to see it here and being posted in 3DWorld!
I've tried it as well a couple of months ago but wasn't selected. I also think this one deserves it better.
Keep up the good work (and pace :p).
Martin
Very (!) good work - amazing!
And of course it is pushing my imagination.
Mammoth scene. The best of Tg2 for me so far.
Beautifully sculpted rock cliff. I wouldn't have entitled this work "Climbing the Chimney" unless I actually had someone doing just that. A more accurate title might be "Chimney Climb".
John