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Title: A walk in the forrest
Post by: cyphyr on April 02, 2009, 01:12:59 PM
Hi gang

Well after nearly 15 hours here it is, all models by my self.

A walk in the Forrest 1 & 2 (2 is tone mapped)

C & C very welcome

Render settings: 0.8, 10, 4, 2, 8, Surface details on

enjoy

Richard

ps I'll probably do another version with the new version of Terragen incorporating a path and more ground cover
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: neuspadrin on April 02, 2009, 01:17:03 PM
wow very awesome.

only comment i have for realism is it seems too perfectly green, some greens are a bit off.. other then that great job!
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: Mohawk20 on April 02, 2009, 01:58:36 PM
Very nice...
I have to say I like the shadows and colours of the original better.

As Neuspadrin said, you could work a bit on the colours. The leaves are a bit too bright green, perhaps you could change it to a bit more yellow and a bit less saturated. It could be the result of the translucency colour, which should be the same as the leaf colour (if you use an image map, just apply the image map to the translucency settings).
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: inkydigit on April 02, 2009, 02:05:44 PM
excellent work, I too prefer the first and agree about the green-ness
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: Seth on April 02, 2009, 02:48:02 PM
the first one is very very good !
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: cyphyr on April 02, 2009, 03:07:21 PM
Thanks for the feedback guys, I tried a small cropped section using the leaf image for the translucency but it went way too dark. The leaves are already set to 8 on translucency to overcome the darkness caused by so many layers of shadow casting surfaces, maybe the solution is to remodel the tree with fewer leaves.
richard
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: Oshyan on April 02, 2009, 03:11:01 PM
The top one is *gorgeous* and I love the full range of contrast from dark in the trees at top to light at the edges, and then good lighting in the lower tree and ground cover areas. Personally I don't think it's too green - I love a good sense of vitality. ;D

- Oshyan
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: rcallicotte on April 02, 2009, 03:16:06 PM
I like both.

Fantastic!
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: j meyer on April 02, 2009, 03:36:56 PM
Hi,
#1 is really nice,well done!
J.
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: Tangled-Universe on April 02, 2009, 03:38:42 PM
Hi Richard,
Like the majority I also prefer the first one. Oshyan said it all for me already :) + that I like the gentle rays.
Very good work!

Martin
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: Mandrake on April 02, 2009, 04:40:21 PM
Yep, it's the top one for me. Beauty of a job on that tree bark!!
Great work!
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: FrankB on April 03, 2009, 04:51:34 AM
great work, and also prefer the first one. However, if I may, I think both images are a tad too soft. I am a known advocate for softness on vegetation ;D... but here's a tad too much. Probably a combination of high AA + a soft pixel filter. In my opinion it's better to use one or the other.
But don't let this spoil your "render success" ;-)

Regards,
Frank
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: domdib on April 03, 2009, 05:51:53 AM
Agree with Mandrake on the bark. Excellent render.
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: moodflow on April 04, 2009, 10:46:21 AM
Wholly moly!!!  This looks fantastic, especially the first one.   :o
Title: Re: A walk in the forrest
Post by: tumasch on April 17, 2009, 07:07:51 AM
I'm in awe...! :o I love both of them for their mystical feel and lighting, yet I like the first one slightly better as there is more contrast to it (with the darker foliage at the top and all).