Castle grounds

[lightning]

heres my latest render
took 75 hours to render
all vegetation is my own i used my set of silver birch trees my high res grass and my set of oxeye daiseys
castle is a model from rodolfi
postwork done in photoshop cs4

enjoy!!

[Tangled-Universe]

Oh wow man, normally I'm not that fond of TG-images with buildings or similar stuff but this image shows it IS possible
The lighting on the foreground trees looks awesome, so are the models themselves by the way. Unfortunately the trees in the background look a bit flatter because the lighting is somewhat different, not that it is really disturbing. I'd like to see this one at a higher resolution so the grasses and daiseys will look better and less noizy.
This probably already took a lot of time so maybe I'm requesting something impossible
Great work!

Martin

p.s. nice Enayla/Linda Bergkvist avatar

[lightning]

thanks mate i will try and render a higher res one i will split it and render a few chunks at a time i think

[Tangled-Universe]

Yes that's a good approach. I'm rendering a very complex and demanding scene this week. 10 VHQ populations, 1 high-poly hero-model, 1500x1000px @ GI 2/2 and detail 1
I've split it up in 8 pieces and rendered 2 pieces at the same time using 2 instances assigned each to 2 cores (of my quad) because that's more stable. I could use 4 cores in one instance to render 2 pieces but then the RAM-management fails unfortunately. Takes a lot of time but it is worth the time, can't wait to finish/post it

[monks]

oooh, nice!!  Great veg all round!

monks

[Phylloxera]

I love the vegetation, particular the trees !

[moodflow]

Wow, this is really impressive!   

[rcallicotte]

Storybook, Lightning.  Very nice!

[Oshyan]

This is a really nice image. Not much to critique, except the slight sharpness/noise in the grasses. I suppose higher AA might help there. Great work.

- Oshyan

[lightning]

I love the vegetation, particular the trees !

hey and all except the ox eye daises are available for free

[darthvader]

Lightning, your vegitation is just superb! I'm a bit sad about the daisies not being free; i'm rendering a scene for my friend and she absolutly LOVES daisies. Oh well, I'll live you've already been more than generous with the excellent plant models you haev given already

[otakar]

The birch trees are just wonderful. Great image, the castle looks natural there.

[Seth]

very nice mood in this render
what is the AA value ?

[lightning]

very nice mood in this render
what is the AA value ?

15 was originally 33!

[cyphyr]

Great image all round here. Only crit (an it a small one) is the castle itself could do with more detail, I feel it lets down the very high quality of the rest of the image.
cyphyr