Mountain Meadow

[old_blaggard]

http://www.ashundar.com/gallery/displayimage.php?pos=-5014

Comments and critiques appreciated .

[Hannes]

Wow, this is extremely realistic!! The lower part of the mountains in the background is incredible. Great work!

[rcallicotte]

Very good render.  Nice lighting.  A lot of great work in this.  One of your tops so far.

[Seth]

good job O_B ! good job...

[Bidmaron]

This is just awesome.  No other way to describe it.  Makes me want to go hiking there.

Any chance of a blow-by-blow of how you did it from start to finish (including where you bought/obtained the models?)
--Dale--

[old_blaggard]

Thanks for the comments so far .  Mr. Lamppost noted over at Ashundar that it seems the upper left part of the ruins is levitating a little, so I'll try to rerender that part and plug in the crop render in postpro.  All of the models that I used were either from the free Xfrog pack or downloaded from www.ashundar.com.  The scene itself isn't complex.  The terrain was made by mixing a masked alpine shader and a power fractal.  There were two layers for snow, a pair of power fractals for textures, a layer of fake stones, and then lots and lots and lots of models masked by a warpy power fractal.

[Mr_Lamppost]

Mr. Lamppost noted over at Ashundar that it seems the upper left part of the ruins is levitating a little, so I'll try to rerender that part and plug in the crop render in postpro.

Don't you just hate it when someone notices something like that after you have waited hours for the thing to render 

I did also say it was an excellent scene 

[monks]

Wonderful! I especially like the distribution of veg.

monks

[Costaud]

Nice, what a awesome POV, great depth, vegetation look very real. Great work.

[mrwho]

nice work. Only criticism from me is that the foreground grass/plants looks fake, and some of the trees in the middle of the image don't quite look right, they seem to 'pop' out of the shadow a bit too much. Otherwise, great work like the others have said, esp. the mountain

[NWsenior07]

Nicely done O_B, I agree that the realism on this one is quite high. I also like you addition of the dead trees scattered here and there. I would say that the ruins seem to be floating above the ground on the far side though, but that might just be me.

[dhavalmistry]

oh I love it OB

[overlordchuck]

Oh my gosh, man, it's great!  The mountains in the background look absolutely like a photo.  Congrats!

[old_blaggard]

Thanks again for the comments - I'll hopefully have a new version up soon with the ruins fixed.

mrwho - I agree somewhat with your comment about the background trees, but I'm curious as to why the foreground vegetation doesn't suit your fancy.  I ask only because I've tried everything I know how to do to get it looking realistic, so I would like to hear where I could improve it.

[sonshine777]

Very nice render you have there, I see the floating logs model also looks great in the meadow. I think what mrwho is referring to is the patterning that the wheat type grass has. It seems almost too evenly spaced. You may want to try two populations in the same place but at different densities and different seeds, just a thought. This a great piece though, well worth pursuing to perfection.