A friend recently introduced me to the artist Friedrich. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich
I especially like 'The Abbey in the Oakwood' so I thought to attempt a TG version. Postwork in PS.
Of course, it isn't exact, I'm a little confused at the perspective of the abbey in different reference images, and I lack the skills to create the trees in the true simulacrum of a reference image but these will do, I suppose. There could be more of them in this image, too, I think they're a bit sparse. Lighting is a bit off aswell but, meh, it'll do for now.
I can share these low-res, no leaf trees if anyone wants them.
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Thanks for looking! :)
Friedrich...
most excellent style !!!
Lol, yes, that would be the painting, Francke!
OK, I'll edit too. ;) :D
Cool image :) You've managed to emulate his style very well.
With a little more work this could become something spacial :)
Richard
Very good CG version of Caspar's work. A wee bit of dodging (top of ruin) and burning (mid undergrowth belt) and a PS layer of distressing/grunging noise, and you'll have it just about bang on. Trees would be useful for any spooky scene with them silhouetted on the horizon.
John
Looks like Halloween has arrived early this year at Planetside.
This is nice
WOW. Yeah, dodge, burn, add some clutter to and more texture to foreground. Though you got inspiration from the artist, there is an aspect to this that makes it look the other way around. You are creating an image that looks like the source of what the artist may have painted. Man, I'd love to see where you can take this!!
Halloween, aye.
I've been reading ye olde texts and stuff recently too. Really getting into the old gothic novels. William Beckford, Mary Shelley and the likes.
There are a good few Friedrich paintings I'd like to try my hand at in TG. A lot of them include people, though, and I'm no modeller.
Cheers, folks! :)
Great work Martin!
I think you did a great job at resembling the image.
Nice atmospherics, well done!
Martin
I think this is really cool. Nice work getting it really close to the original yet still retaining some uniqueness.
Excellent work here!
Fantastically atmospheric.
i'd like a copy of those no-leaf trees,
i could put them to good (creepy) use.... ;D ;D
I like this one, very nice :)
Frank
Very, very nice!! This would be an excellent contest, by the way; provide an artist's painting (or a photo, for that matter) and see what 'we' can do to reproduce in TG.
Quote from: Dune on September 28, 2009, 03:20:26 AM
This would be an excellent contest, by the way; provide an artist's painting (or a photo, for that matter) and see what 'we' can do to reproduce in TG.
I'll second that. And why not begin with Friedrich's most well known work "Wanderer Above the Sea of Clouds", a scene that is crying out for a TG2 interpretation, with its rocky outcrops and low lying fog. I've "borrowed" the image below from Wikipeadia so as we can use it as a reference:
This one is quite possible. It also might be fun to use one of the 'babe' models from Renderosity. :D
Well you picked a hard one here, for the colours in the clouds, and above all, for the 'babe'. If I have some time, I'll will have a go at it though, perhaps without the guy first...
I was going to do this one, too. :)
Zagadka: I'll .tgo the trees and post them at some point, probably tommorow. They're .lwo's just now and have no shaders attached, except a dark default shader. I'll see what I can do with them in daylight settings, for this I just needed dark tree shapes.
Quote from: dandelO on September 28, 2009, 12:13:34 PM
Zagadka: I'll .tgo the trees and post them at some point, probably tommorow. They're .lwo's just now and have no shaders attached, except a dark default shader. I'll see what I can do with them in daylight settings, for this I just needed dark tree shapes.
:)
ok, cool, thanks.