This actually started as a test for texturing the ground. Then I kitbashed the trees in the foreground by using a nice tree trunk and main branches of a free tree model (deleted ugly smaller branches and leaves), and used some nice branch/leaves clusters of another free tree model (deleted the ugly trunk), and created a particle system in 3ds Max using the main branches as particle emitter and the clusters as particle instances. Thus I got a nice lush tree (there are some weird connections, but they aren't visible I hope...). Eventually I thought, the leaves are still too big (happens quite often with 3d tree models), and so I used my own triple leaves texture, which reduced the scale (and increased the number!) of the leaves by a factor of three.
I found some nice character models, retextured them and ran most of the models through Mixamo to pose them.
I had to cheat a bit, since the path tracer still does not render water transparency, so I rendered the area with the water with the legacy (RT) sampler and put it together in Photoshop.
Very nice. Like the atmo. Woud be nice a to see a version with only the ship on in plus nature.
Quirky and exquisite lighting!
Really good lighting and a quite mysterious and adventure ambience! Great!
Strange and wonderful. Nice use of a long lens + haze to frame and give a sense of depth. Looks like a painting, in a good way. (And the zombies are pretty cool too.)
Wonderful scene Hannes, very "animated" for a still, if that makes sense.
Great work.
Thanks a lot, guys!!!!
This is really really good -- it reminds me of those classic Treasure Island illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
I too love the lighting, the glow of the leaves and general back lighting in particular.
- Oshyan
Love this hannes
Nicely done!. Lots of different elements brought together to make a cool picture!
Quote from: Dune on May 18, 2019, 07:23:39 AM
Quirky and exquisite lighting!
Hear! Hear! And really well done on the kit bashed tree...
Wow, this must have been tons of work to put together. Lots of detail. Really nice.
Thanks again!! Yes, this took a while, but it's great fun to gather all these things (not knowing where this leads to in the beginning).
Quote from: Hannes on May 20, 2019, 04:09:01 AM
Thanks again!! Yes, this took a while, but it's great fun to gather all these things (not knowing where this leads to in the beginning).
Hope you don't mind but it's my current desktop...a real R L Stevenson fan as a kid...
Wow Bobby, no, I don't mind!! I'm glad, you like it, and it matches your memories. :) :) :)
Nice and moody and a version I didn't know before. ;)