About to pounce.

[Henry Blewer]

This is much more 'active'. The only suggestion I have is to crop render a small area of the sky. Then adjust the atmosphere sample quality and the cloud sample quality. They really help make things look good.

[FrankB]

yeah, this is it, a great composition now. As Henry said it has a lot of action. I like it. The sky looks a bit funny still, and there are a few other areas you could work on, such as the plants. However, this was a nice thread to follow with an interesting end result, imho.

cheers,
Frank

[Kevin F]

Thanks for the comments guys.
The sky was actually rendered at quite high settings and the appearance is intentional.
Anyways I've finished with this and am moving on.

[Vandy]

Hello, Kevin.

I'm a "Johnny-come-lately" to this thread but did want to add a comment.

I'm certainly not in a position to critique your composition, style and techniques being very much a newbie to Terragen 2.

I can tell you that your second picture is outstanding!  I can certainly feel the tension you've created in the scene.  I can only hope to be able to create beutiful renders like this as I get better with the application.

The one comment I would give you is to remove the tree trunk off the right shoulder of the cat.  For me, it is a distraction and in the way.

Thank you for sharing this excellently done render.

Regards,

Vandy

[Kevin F]

Here's a long overdue update of an image I made last May!
It now has much better quality grass and trees -thanks to Walli via NWDA.
Other credits as before.
The cloud quality has also been improved from 1 to 2 @166 samples. The render quality was upped slightly as well.
The clouds will still come in for some criticism, but any grainyness is not from quality alone. The effect I was after was of a dark stormy sky approaching a hot arid area. So the foreground is bright and well lit but with the visible sky dark and foreboding.
At 31hrs and 6.1million triangles this is the final.

[inkydigit]

excellent update Kevin!

[choronr]

This point of view puts one in the driver's seat; great work Kevin. The lighting gives the impression of early morning

[Redwolf]

really good image here, are those freeby animal objects?, one thing I cant model is animals, or maybe I havent tried hard enough!!

[Kevin F]

Thanks for the thumbs up!

@ Redwolf The animals came from a free version of Poser5, don't know if they're still available.
But there's a free safari pack from daz3d at:
http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=8865

[Redwolf]

thanks for that Kevin