The old ruin - V2 on page 2

[Hannes]

I started this image as another test for vertical displacement. The wall is completely procedural: fractal terrain, tilted towards the camera by a twist and shear shader. Added displacement with vertically and horizontally stretched PFs plus a wavy strata (a file from somewhere here).
I don't remember where this ruin model came from. I had it on my harddisk for years now.
Hope you like it.

[mhaze]

Excellent render!  Great mood, rock face and the trees are better than average too.

[Dune]

Totally agree, though I would have liked to see more of that cliff! It's a bit wild/restless for the eyes with the trees in front is another small comment.

[Kadri]

I like it Hannes.
It is harder then said sometimes i know, but i just have a feeling that you could find a better composition of this scene.

[Hannes]

Thanks guys!
Ulco, here is an early test render showing the cliff with different sun settings. I had to sacrifice this view to get some moody morning feeling.

[Oshyan]

Great cliff face! The leaves on the foreground (upper-left) tree don't look quite right to me though. Too much yellow perhaps, or baked-in lighting? Hard to say.

- Oshyan

[TheBadger]

I love the ruins! Look great.
I think I like just about every part of this image, but just not all together. Feels like every part is worthy of its own scene. On the other hand, when I first looked at it (before I started to pick it apart to see what you did) I was like, "WOW!" Sooooo... This is probably not too helpful then

[Hannes]

Thanks again. I agree, I seem to put a little bit too much stuff into one picture, but I like that.
The leaves' texture of the foreground tree (it's exactly the same tree like the one to the right) are maybe a bit too saturated. Maybe I'll try to make a new one. This one was a modified texture I found somewhere in the net. It's one image with three leaves. Sometimes the planes representing the leaves on a tree model are way too big compared to the rest of the model. I wanted a really big looking tree, so using such a texture was a neat trick. Anyway the texture has to be improved.

[Clay]

Thanks guys!
Ulco, here is an early test render showing the cliff with different sun settings. I had to sacrifice this view to get some moody morning feeling.

Very cool indeed!

[Dune]

Hannes, what if you lower the camera a meter or so and move it to the right same amount, then apply some dof, so the front tree is just a little less 'intruding'. That wall is awesome!

[Hannes]

Ulco, I'm not quite sure, if you mean the tree to the left as the "front tree". If I'd lower the camera and move it to the right, the camera would be a bit further away from this tree, which would be a bit problematic in terms of DOF. Anyway, good idea. If I'd move the tree a bit towards the camera, the DOF would work imho. I'll see what I can do.

[Cocateho]

Great mood! Love the tree, really adds an 'untamed' feel to this.

[Dune]

Yeah, I mean the left tree. Curious what you come up with.

[Hannes]

Created a new leaves texture.

[DocCharly65]

I like it already.
But with the left tree closer to the camera for DoF it will be awesome