Mayan dawn

[yossam]

Not sure about this one.................

[archonforest]

IMHO if this temple is abandoned then I would put some ruins around and more trees bushes kinda jungle style....close by since it is abandoned. Like nature takes back the place.
If it is not abandoned then it should have some people around, some animals, walkway....etc

[TheBadger]

I like the subject a lot. Can you make a render from the ground looking up so I can get a better feel of the scale? I mean put the camera at human height from the ground, some place.

[yossam]

What I'm working on now...............

[fleetwood]

Nice atmosphere.
To be super picky, I'm not sure if the directional orientation of the pyramid relative to your rising sun position is normal. From what I read the Mayans set up their cities and pyramids according to their observations of star paths, so the sides would line up close to true east west north south.  Just a thought.

[yossam]

Alternate universe..............

[yossam]

For Badger..............

[Kadri]

Looks nice

[N-drju]

I like Mayans for kicking the ..... out of Aztecs.

In other words - good render idea.

[dandelO]

Great atmosphere, Yossam. I did some renders of a lovely model of Kukulkan's pyramid some time ago,  or,'El Castillo', to use the modern name.

...so the sides would line up close to true east west north south.  Just a thought.

In fact, probably the most famous of the South American megalithic 'temples' lies a full 19° off True-North/South, to allow for the almost incredulous shadow-play of the depiction of the winged-serpent, Kukulkan, to present itself at Sun rise on the primary stairway on both of the annual equinoxes each year, as do many other ancient sites on the continent, without fail. Agreeably, your's seems to be way far out from that angle but the exact N/S orientation doesn't apply to many of these sites, especially in many of these, known, South American sites.

[fleetwood]

Great atmosphere, Yossam. I did some renders of a lovely model of Kukulkan's pyramid some time ago,  or,'El Castillo', to use the modern name.

...so the sides would line up close to true east west north south.  Just a thought.

In fact, probably the most famous of the South American megalithic 'temples' lies a full 19° off True-North/South, to allow for the almost incredulous shadow-play of the depiction of the winged-serpent, Kukulkan, to present itself at Sun rise on the primary stairway on both of the annual equinoxes each year, as do many other ancient sites on the continent, without fail. Agreeably, your's seems to be way far out from that angle but the exact N/S orientation doesn't apply to many of these sites, especially in many of these, known, South American sites.

Solution is to animate so we can see the winged serpent's shadow 

[TheBadger]

Now I feel the scale Yossam! Impressive structure. I have never seen those kinds of ruins in person before.

About the shadows and stuff that was mentioned above... Dose anyone have a video link showing how that works on the real ruins? I would really like to see that.

[bla bla 2]

C'est marrant, j'ai eu la même idée mais je n'ai jamais montré.
Sauf, que j'ai fait que avec le sss.


It's funny, I had the same idea but I never showed. ^^

Except, I did that with the sss.