A work in progress for a commercial project I'm currently undertaking. While the bulk of the work is done, smaller details still needs to be added.
Gorgeous!
incredible, the sky is a little too deep of a blue color, but other than that it is pretty good.
Looks a lot like the mountains here in Colorado, not very green and a lot of brownish colors.
photorealistic light !
To make it perfect you'd need a little more variation in trees, but besides that lighting, texturing and distribution are perfect!
Very realistic lighting and colors. The sky colors are perfect! I know this is a work in progress, but the trees need more variation in size, distribution, and color variation. The grass could use more variation in distribution. If you could get these things done, this image would likely be the most realistic TG2 image I've seen yet when it comes to lighting and such.
Marvelous work and light. The trees could use a little bit more translucency (what do you think?) and there should be some divergence in size.
Good Lord the only thing that is killing me is the trees lacking color tone variations. Add that i you got one heck of a photoreal image. ;D
Love the subject and love the render! I'd highlight the grass (probably the most realistic meadow I've see yet from TG), the tree distribution on the mountains (just spot on), and the lighting. As others have said, the area to concentrate on for improvements would be the trees (I'd leave the distant trees, alone, though). More variety is absolutely needed (in all aspects). And I'd add a wolf or grizzly for a truly spectacular scene! ;) Oh, and a bald eagle circling above. I do need to go back there some day, that park is something else.
Fantastic! My only critic would be the lack of variation in the trees as all the others already mentioned. Very photorealistic.
Agree w/others tree variation is a must ;)
Awesome work as always Saurav.
While the lighting is really realistic as it is, I would have chosen a different position for the sun.
It looks very flat right now. The only shadows we see are from some of those trees in the front.
Some tree variation, as some have already mentioned, would also be good.
The rest is really, really great. Very realistic render.
- Terje
Quote from: Mohawk20 on March 18, 2009, 05:18:50 AM
To make it perfect you'd need a little more variation in trees, but besides that lighting, texturing and distribution are perfect!
Spot-on. My eyes start to swim once I get into the heart of the green trees - some variation there would catapult this into, "Is that a photograph? No. No that's T2... right?"
I think the "flat" lighting actually contributes a lot to the realism. Scenes in these types of areas are kind of "boring" like this usually. It's a great image though, not boring from a TG2 perspective. ;) I agree a bit about the tree variation, but in most cases when that's added it's overdone. It needs to be *very* subtle. If that could be added, it'd be pretty mindblowingly realistic. The only other thing I see, that I'm surprised no one else mentioned, is I think the AA filter could be better - as it is it's a tad sharp and noisy in the grasses.
- Oshyan
I've been using the "tent" version of AA. Seems to work well with foliage without over-softening the details.
Thank you all for your comments and suggestions.
I'm still making improvements in the scene and have already incorporated the 2 other versions/age of Douglas Fir tree.
Hopefully within the next week I will have the final version posted.
Oshyan and Moodflow, I'll test this scene with other AA filters.
Thanks again.
I believe the mid-ground is what spoils it a bit for me - I don't think it looks exactly realistic, Saurav. The image could be more realistic just if the color of the trees would be a little different, and maybe darker and more saturated. The foreground is excellent, the background is good, too, it's just the midground...
Not that I could do it any better, but still... ;-) ... in your other renders, the color and lighting is always spot on, and if you get that into this render, it will be another great "Saurav" :-)
Cheers,
Frank
I have finally got around to posting the finished version of this render.
Improvements made: Tree colour variations, smaller tree size, dead trees, cloud layers and colour corrected.
Render details: 5hours, Detail 1, AA 10, GI 2/3.
Project Details:
Location: Slough Creek, Yellowstone National Park
Rendered for Wolf Quest Ep II: Slough Creek
That is outstanding Saurav. I like everything about it.
It is the most realistic render I have ever seen made with Terragen 2.
- Terje
That's a photo Saurav. Quit trying to fool us. ;D
- Oshyan
If you were to say that was a photo I would totally believe you. I almost don't believe that is Terragen 2! Outstanding work!
Image of the Week!!!
damn good man ! ^^
you did a good job
Those grasses are insane! :o
The trees as well ;D (though a tad more contrast might look even better?)
Very photorealistic, very natural and detailed.
Fantastic work Saurav, in all aspects!
Did you use lower-quality treepopulations for the background mountains?
5 hours for an image like this seems very quick to me, unless you also have a crazy i7 :)
Martin
Quote from: sjefen on April 11, 2009, 08:04:53 PM
That is outstanding Saurav. I like everything about it.
It is the most realistic render I have ever seen made with Terragen 2.
- Terje
Could well be! :o :D
yeah, that's it, Saurav. Congratulations!
Frank
Kudos!
Beautiful. I agree about the photo realism. I'd bet that if you put it on Flickr, at least 99% would think it a photo.
I think you should post this over at CGTalk (http://forums.cgsociety.org/) and see what people say.
They usually pay more attention to naked girls and characters, but this is a landscape render in a class of it's own.
- Terje
Very realistic. I love all the grass details. You could certainly fool someone into thinking this was a photo.
One of the most photo realistic TG2 renders I've seen yet!
I love your choice of colours for the grasses, something that for me is very hard to get right :o
Everyone else has said it all, I'll just add another "Wow! .. Dude! .. Cool!" Gorgeous render!
Stunningly realistic, loads of details, can we have it bigger :)
richard
Quote from: Tangled-Universe on April 12, 2009, 05:46:11 AM
Did you use lower-quality treepopulations for the background mountains?
5 hours for an image like this seems very quick to me, unless you also have a crazy i7 :)
Martin
They were normal quality population, although I could have probably got away with using low quality at that distance. There are no complex displacements in this scene so I have a feeling that cut down the render times. A crazy i7 would be a dream right now. ;D
Quote from: cyphyr on April 13, 2009, 03:01:05 PM
Stunningly realistic, loads of details, can we have it bigger :)
richard
I'll work on rendering out a bigger version as soon as I finish some of my upcoming projects.
Quote from: Insquall on April 13, 2009, 02:22:34 PM
I love your choice of colours for the grasses, something that for me is very hard to get right :o
I tend to use the colour picker and get samples from real photos to change texture colours in photoshop. I believe it helps with realism.
Quote from: sjefen on April 12, 2009, 09:45:14 AM
I think you should post this over at CGTalk (http://forums.cgsociety.org/) and see what people say.
They usually pay more attention to naked girls and characters, but this is a landscape render in a class of it's own.
- Terje
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I might just do that. ;D
Brilliant! I would totally believe this was a real image.
bloody amazing!! :o