Inspired by China's Yangtze River.
This was an image from early 2007 (back when TG2 had serious issues). Due to the crashes, I had to shelf it.
Now that TG2 is stable (though far from complete) I figured I'd dig this one back up and re-tweak it. I really like how it came out. Definitely some work to do, but I can see the potential of TG2 even more now.
Minor postwork in Photoshop (contrast, color, hue, sharpening, etc).
This image did have a gondola floating down the river (a 2D billboard since I don't have any 3D gondola models). It looked alright in the preview. But it looked like a cut and paste job in the final. So I took it out. Now the river looks all empty. Do me a favor and "see" a gondola in your mind's eye. It will save me some time on going back and adding it.
Specs:
800x600
render time: 22 hours over 2 cores
quality: 0.8
I hope you like it. I had fun making it, and learned alot along the way...
