Outcrop

[yossam]

Playing with displacement shaders...................

[masonspappy]

Da-yum...Looks good.  Like the photorealness of it.  Only comment I have is that the very thin striations sort of make it look like it came out of a 3D printer. Is there a way around that?
- Cam

[yossam]

I'll have to look at the settings and see. Right now I've got another render cooking of the mushroom shaped formation at the center of the first pic.


I hope you are feeling better. 

[yossam]

The mushroom turned out to be dull, changed a setting to get rid of the thin striations.

[Mahnmut]

All in all very nice!
That said, here are my humble impressions:
I liked the first one better, especilly the background. Just in case you want to make another version, I´d suggest to start with the first again and just break up the coverage of the fine striations with a power fractal.
But it´s fine anyway.
Cheers,
J

[ajcgi]

Agreed, the 2nd version has less interest and kind of highlights the vertical stretching in other areas.
Could be a cracking piece if you get it right though.

[yossam]

Still playing...................

[Henry Blewer]

This last image is the best yet. I have found that a twist shader can help with the knife like edges of the rock. You want to put the 1 in the Y axis input, then adjust the amount with the slider. If adjusting the slider does not seem to help, change the y input, higher or lower.

[Dune]

The last one is very nice. What I would do is restrict the outcrop the the frontal one, and blend the rest out (the overhangs in the distance).

[fleetwood]

I have no problem accepting  the original fine strata. The foreground outcrop is good, but I find the distant one
in the background right too extreme to survive unless this is a super low gravity planet or very low density super strong rock.

[yossam]

I think this is finished....................

[Henry Blewer]

Nice work. This has a very permanent look to it. It would be a great location to add some old American Indian structures.

[efflux]

Nice work. The rock surface is good.

[Bjur]

Great!

Choose a 2:4 aspect ratio, let a HQ Sci-Fi thing fly by from the right to the left along your surface, maybe via PS, imagine some blurriness, it would strike like an ILM made sreenshot of a movie which is in production..