Creek WIP

[bobbystahr]

Mr. bass hiding far bank, third pad from the right. Very nice render!

Thanks for the reminder, there's a fish waiting to get into this water.

[Luc]

nice attempt and thanks for reference 

This WIP represents a number of things; first always do full res crops of sensitive areas like water first and act on impluses like replacing the water reflection with a softened Reflection shader and checking cloud shadowing...and at that point(test crop)I'd have added a wider SS to the sun and a re seed of the clouds so the foreground isn't in shadow...but that is I guess what a WIP is for. Not as painful on the new computer....in the waiting for more RAM mode but running fine on less complex scenes.
The image as is often the case, is loosely based on luc's image linked below as when uninspired I  surf my "Hero Galleries" till one tells me I should try that....this one did just that.

http://www.lucbianco.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ter2016_5.jpg
http://www.lucbianco.fr/terragen4/

[bobbystahr]

nice attempt and thanks for reference 

This WIP represents a number of things; first always do full res crops of sensitive areas like water first and act on impluses like replacing the water reflection with a softened Reflection shader and checking cloud shadowing...and at that point(test crop)I'd have added a wider SS to the sun and a re seed of the clouds so the foreground isn't in shadow...but that is I guess what a WIP is for. Not as painful on the new computer....in the waiting for more RAM mode but running fine on less complex scenes.
The image as is often the case, is loosely based on luc's image linked below as when uninspired I  surf my "Hero Galleries" till one tells me I should try that....this one did just that.

http://www.lucbianco.fr/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Ter2016_5.jpg
http://www.lucbianco.fr/terragen4/

And thank you for the inspiration.