photo inspired render

[bobbystahr]

I sent you a pm.......

here? nothing there.

[Dune]

Strange. I need your email address, lost it somehow. You can pm me, if you wish, or send me a mail.

[archonforest]

Very nice. Great idea 

[bobbystahr]

Well it's a bit tiny but here's a preview of the final I made with a bit of Water help from Ulco....The full render has yet to hit the water at 6+ hours...will post it sometime...heh heh

[Dune]

Well, at least it looks promising.

[bobbystahr]

Well, at least it looks promising.

I tweaked the settings you helped with a bit for the scale of my scene and larger it looks just like what I want...thanks again for your help; being colourblind sucks a lot in a project like this. And yielded to the fog as I like what it does to the depth of the image.

[bobbystahr]

Not sure if I'll do this again as this render took 30:02:15 to render...still not too happy with the water; thought it looked better in th small one but guess I should have done some full size crops...c'est la vie

[Dune]

I think it looks really good. There's always room to improve of course, but the reflection is nice and soft, not as crispy hard as your initial render.

[bobbystahr]

I think it looks really good. There's always room to improve of course, but the reflection is nice and soft, not as crispy hard as your initial render.

Yeah that part worked a charm but were I to re-do I'd use my masked stripes2.jpg for the waves...find image map displacements like that easier to predict and control...learned quite a bit from the water though...thanks yet again.

[ajcgi]

Well it's a bit tiny but here's a preview of the final I made with a bit of Water help from Ulco....The full render has yet to hit the water at 6+ hours...will post it sometime...heh heh

I still hold the award for longest render time at Lola Post... 10 days. Painted maps, displacements galore, trees, mountains, laaaarge motion blur. Back before blur vectors.

Anyways, awesome image. Really like that water. Seems everyone has gone water nuts here lately. It's been fascinating to watch progress. I really like this idea of taking a photo as reference. It gives a strong starting point.

[bobbystahr]

Thanks ajcgi, I've been doing that since the comps we used to have in Imagine3D's long defunct mailing list....that phrase says volumes a lot when that was. As I'm functional but colourblind I find photos where I can steal colours invaluable.

[bobbystahr]

Well I've decided I made an error with that brick texture on the bridge so another render seems called for...just gotta get caught up on a PhShop job that will generate groceries first.

[ajcgi]

Haha, how fast can you render vegetables?
Bills - a constant enemy.

[DannyG]

I like this last one, perhaps some transparency in the water would be a nice eye catcher in the foreground? Keep them coming Bobby

[AP]

It is coming along quite nicely. I like what was done with the water, very nice.