Fern Gully

[TheBadger]

I like it too. Would like to see some more views from this area.

[Lady of the Lake]

This is gorgeous.

[AndyWelder]

@ Oshyan and cyphyr: I'm working at a redo of the tree. It's created with Onyx because that's the software I have access to (at work) and I'm still in the process of familiarizing myself with it.

@TheBadger and cyphyr: Yeah, there are a lot of interesting POVs to be found here but some are pretty tricky in regards to rendering: I did another render with a different POV and camera angle and the water was responsible for almost 90% of the render time though I did use a masked water plane. The upper one/third with no water in it did render in 8 hours (pre-render included) on a total of 110 hours. Not complaining, just stating facts.
I will post that one later on because now it's dinner time: Rösti's, green beans and MEATBALLS!!!!

[AndyWelder]

Diner was yummi!

Here's the other render. Original size 2400x1800, resized and cropped to remove some ugly shadows and displacements that previously went unnoticed.

[Dune]

The atmosphere and lighting is stunning, Andy. Great shot. The water is hardly visible as being water, though. Is it still, I mean no waves? You can probably save a lot on render time if you manage the water well, especially when a cloud layer is partly underwater (you can blend the underwater part out by distribution shader or the cloud layer settings, if needed). I also see some very fine displacements on the left side, between some leaves. If that interacts with water (especially when it's reflective), I can imagine long render times.
You might even be able to fake water by using an 'underwater textured/colored' surface (flat), with RT reflection. That is, if you don't need to see rocks and leaves really 'disappearing' under the water level, if you get my point.

[TheBadger]

Would make a great animation! To bad about the render time.

[j meyer]

Great mood,very nice!

[efflux]

I haven't been on this site for a while. Just looking through image sharing but I find one of your images stands out again. Yes, there are some technical things that give it away as CG but this render makes you want to explore the scene. It's a good POV and scene setup with sense of depth. The horizontal tree, the hill in the middle with two ways to go around etc. This stuff makes for an interesting scene.

[Chinaski]

Really nice work! I like the atmosphere.