Caribbean...finally done!

[Zairyn Arsyn]

cool!!!

it looks blurry, that does'nt really bother me, that much

[Hannes]

Yes, that's because the original render is 200X112 pixels, so I had to upscale it and of course the frame blending blurs as well. In this low quality and this size the flickering is terrible without any tweaking.

[domdib]

The ship looks fantastic, but I'd like to see just a*little* more of the shoreline.

[freelancah]

Looking good! I just wonder how much trouble the flickering will cause in the end when/if this gets animated

[microwar]

Is the sun look a little wierd when going behind stuff.

[Hannes]

Yes, the sun shines a little bit through objects here. I would have to enable ray trace shadows in the athmosphere's quality tab to avoid this, but that would increase the rendertimes even more.
Sometimes when the sun is behind a piece of fabric you can see the sun disc through it (at least a little bit), so I decided to keep rendertimes "short" ( short!!!!! Hahahaha!  )

[Hannes]

That's it!!! I'm done!!!
I submitted my storyboard.
It's quite different from what I had in mind when I started, but I had a lot of fun learning new things like water animation, foam generation and wind blown sails.
Looking forward to the other submissions. This is really exciting!

Here's the (resized) storyboard:

[dandelO]

A fantastic voyage, all the way from page 1! Excellent work.

[domdib]

Well done!

[Dune]

Congratulations, Hannes! Even the low quality movie is great. I would really like to see your storyboard animated. When you started out I was afraid the movie would be too fast, as many movies are, when speeding over some countryside, but there's a nice and calm feel to yours. Good luck in the contest!

---Dune

[Henry Blewer]

Looks really awesome. It will be wonderful animated.

[Hannes]

Thanks a lot, guys!!

[gregsandor]

Really nice work Hannes.  Makes me want to go a-privateering.

[inkydigit]

arrrghhh...Jim lad!
proper stuff here!

[cyphyr]

very welldone indeed. I'd love to see how the spray turns out in high resolution.

Richard