Devonian jungle river

Dune · May 05, 2011, 02:43:20 AM

I'm getting hooked by the warper. This (simple shape) river needs some larger scale warp and more work on the water surface, so this is a WIP.

choronr · May 05, 2011, 03:06:21 AM

Like a flight over the Amazon where those crocs, cayman and piranha live. Now I know why people don't fish there. Great work on this one.

Redwolf · May 05, 2011, 03:12:01 AM

double the size of the trees perhaps?

ndeewolfwood · May 05, 2011, 05:41:28 AM

the population scale is perfect to me.

Tangled-Universe · May 05, 2011, 05:42:19 AM

Nice work Ulco, like the atmosphere, pretty convincing!

Quote from: ndeewolfwood on May 05, 2011, 05:41:28 AM
the population scale is perfect to me.

I definitely agree with you.

Cheers,
Martin

jo · May 05, 2011, 08:06:39 AM

Hi Ulco,

It's cool to see you're getting so much use out of the Simple shape shader :-).

Regards,

Jo

Dune · May 05, 2011, 10:15:19 AM

I couldn't do without it anymore, Jo! Neither with the new transform shader version.

I have to re-title this, as these trees are too old to be present when the first birds were there as well. So I replaced them with a brachiosaurus, found on the internet (credits to the unknown maker), and now wading around in a mud hole, grazing on giant ferns.
Although I liked the white birds, so I might replace all trees by modern trees.

Redwolf · May 05, 2011, 11:19:03 AM

the smaller bright green trees, 1.5 in scale, the larger tree as it is, and lots of undergrowth to produce a denser jungle

Dune · May 06, 2011, 04:17:26 AM

Modern version with swamp cypress. With soft shadows and all the water and reflectiveness, this took 3.5 hours to render at 0.5 and AA4.

Henry Blewer · May 06, 2011, 07:14:22 AM

The latest looks best. Somehow the dino did not work for me. Maybe it was the pose for the model. $:-\$

max_thehitman · May 06, 2011, 11:01:42 AM

That looks great! Your an amazing and slick artist Dune. I admire your artsy scenarios.
This is another fine art scene, many congrats!

BTW, just got a new upgrade on my PC, so hopefully I will be able to render scenes in TG2 much
faster now. These things take hours to render!!

Eikers · May 08, 2011, 07:18:19 AM

I really like the way the river turned out. Its surface has those subtle curls of a gentle current and the riverbed in the close passage is colored so that it looks like water plants shaped by the stream. It is just a really nice effect.

Dune · May 09, 2011, 03:29:46 AM

Thanks for noticing that. I intended just that.

Zairyn Arsyn · May 09, 2011, 08:30:05 AM

try doing a version with less transparent water. (i'd like to see that)
usually rivers that are that clear are spring fed, like 1st magitude springs or lower.

looks good to me anyways. i really like how you got the river currents to look more realistic.

what trees are you using for this scene?

Dune · May 09, 2011, 08:49:07 AM

The trees are homegrown swamp cypresses, which I have at the NWDA site.