A new WIP while testing birds in flight following the surface. Made these swans (5 different pops) in XFrog, drew a little line in a painted shader for the birds to follow. You need to turn down the lights to have a good view, though.
---Dune
Great idea. Beautiful image.
First thing that struck my mind before reading your comment: the birds are exactly following the surface! Beatiful! :)
Dune.... This is a beautiful image. Could you explain how you did it...... please.
great soft mood in this render, congratulations!
Frank
Beautiful!
the effect having the birds standing out in front of darker and brighter background reminds of some pictures by M.C. Escher.
Best regards, Jan
good job.
i would enjoy to see more of the sky ;)
@littlecannon: I have to correct myself, I didn't use a painted shader but simple powerfractals (ridges, high contrast, high roughness, with the X=15, Y=1, Z=1), as the blending shader for all 5 populations. They were further restricted to the same small area of 300x100 meters or so, but the heights of the objects themselves were different per population, between 20 and 30 meters, to lift them. And (very important) restrict the rotation to 0-10 degrees. So it's very simple actually.
---Dune
Cool work. The birds flow through this scene very well.