River again

fleetwood · March 31, 2015, 01:22:47 PM

Personal opinion - the sail could go back just a notch. The first version draws me to the horizon. The second one draws me back to the sail.
Don't know about the qualities of Roman canvas but it might be more stained. I was looking at photos of dhow boats it looks like the poorer the owners the more stained and patched the sail is.

Dune · April 01, 2015, 02:53:18 AM

You make the point I was having in the back of my head. Thanks.

DocCharly65 · April 01, 2015, 07:41:24 AM

I think al af them have a individual charme.

Is the boat modelled by yourself?

Kadri · April 01, 2015, 08:19:02 AM

I like all of them.

Dune · April 01, 2015, 08:57:35 AM

Thanks guys. Yes, the boat is mine.

fleetwood · April 01, 2015, 09:42:10 AM

Spot on improvements and balance, to my eye.

dorianvan · April 02, 2015, 12:22:43 AM

My honest opinion is that the first one is by far the best. Both the action with the birds and the great colors really capture the scene; the sun's position is perfect to show off the water. My only critique would be that the closest person looks a tad bit 3d, as well as the boat (just a little). If they were farther away from the camera, I believe it would be unnoticeable. Really awesome work though.

Dune · April 02, 2015, 02:11:34 AM

Thanks, Dorian.

Oshyan · April 02, 2015, 08:32:07 PM

Agreed, I do prefer the daylight view (though I'm normally a huge sunset fan). Aside from that one guy looking a bit too CG, it's great. Just need better human models, the old lament really.

- Oshyan

Dune · April 03, 2015, 02:41:13 AM

I might get back to that one and do it bigger, as I just made some more postures for the floating gulls (made and textured in LW, taken through Poseray, enlarged 10x, taken into Mudbox, posed differently, exported as obj, taken through Poseray again, reduced 1/10x ... it works, the gull keeps its UV's in place)

bobbystahr · April 13, 2015, 11:02:57 AM

Quote from: Dune on April 03, 2015, 02:41:13 AM
I might get back to that one and do it bigger, as I just made some more postures for the floating gulls (made and textured in LW, taken through Poseray, enlarged 10x, taken into Mudbox, posed differently, exported as obj, taken through Poseray again, reduced 1/10x ... it works, the gull keeps its UV's in place)

The U/V gods are on yer side with all that manipulation...I like the stained sails and a big fan of the night view myself.

dorianvan · May 04, 2015, 02:56:08 PM

Hi Ulco, this is such an awesome image that I had to bring it up the list again. Do you have water transparency turned off for the day shot? I'm trying to render one of Avaris Island at 14400x10800, and only a small fraction of it renders in 24 hours. Thanks.

Dune · May 05, 2015, 02:15:02 AM

Wow, Avaris at 14400x10800! Huge. Billboard?
Water takes a lot of time indeed, I wish it could be speeded up. I had a reflective shader with soft reflection (slow also) as a basis, and only for the front part (about halfway to the boat) added a water shader with some transparency and 10% murky water. But that water took long as well, so I didn't dare to render it bigger.
But especially rough water, transparency and soft reflections takes ages. Didn't I at the time add a distance mask for frontal only transparency?