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Started by dandelO, July 02, 2009, 10:11:48 PM

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dandelO

Something I made last night and left rendering when I went to bed.

This is based on a photo of a friend(see next post for reference image). I know it's far from perfect in many areas.
I like doing my own take on certain photos that catch my eye, with TG. I liked this image the first time I saw it so I gave it a quick shot.
Some postwork in Photoshop.

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Thanks for looking! :)

dandelO

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Zairyn Arsyn

pretty, the water looks great. :)

I need to buy a new mask, a snorkel, and a pair fins,
seriously.
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domdib

V nice - the foreground rock is especially convincing, and the water is great.

Henry Blewer

You have done a fine job matching the photo. I like your render better than the photo!
http://flickr.com/photos/njeneb/
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inkydigit

very good foreground....how did you use blutack?!!! :)

schmeerlap

Yeh, I was gonna say; my guess is the one with the Blu-Tack is the photo.  ;D
And, yep, I've got my troos rolled up, and my knotted hanky on my napper.
Good work, man.

John
I hope I realise I don't exist before I apparently die.

littlecannon

Wow... the foreground and water... Rock ;D The only thing that gives it away is the background rocks. The one at the front is damn cool.
I just need to tweak that texture a bit more...

tumasch

Wow, I sure like the foreground with the water and the very convincing rock! In the background, the cliff and the clouds could use a little work. But only a tad. :)
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Walli

I also think that the foreground is really well done, sky and background surface would need some more work to hold up against the reference.

dandelO

Thanks for the input, folks. :)

Inky: You never seen the blu-tack shader? It's in create shader>>>colour shader>>>blu-tack shader. ;)

Schmeerlap: You could probably swim it from there, Laddie! Jist roll up the troosers and jump in! Never mind the hanky! ;)

I know this is a far from perfect recreation but I did only spend a night on it, as with everything these days. Very poor computer. :(

As an idea of just how poor a machine I'm working on: The above render, at the size you see it, detail=0.85, AA=8, GI=0, took me 21.5 hours, pitiful! And this is without the last row of render buckets along the bottom!
I rendered that part on my mum's machine... 2 minutes 50 seconds.
So, just for fun, I rendered the whole thing for comparison...

My pc = 21.5 hours(Still running, mind. I expect it would have been about 24-25 hours to complete).
Her pc = Completed in 1 hour 31 minutes. 

I need a Lotto-win! I don't even play the lottery. :(

Henry Blewer

I intend to win the Mega-Millions 133+ in tonights drawing. ;D I need a newer machine, Full Terragen 2 with Xfrog, Lightwave, new glasses, better apartment... and new shoes. :'(
http://flickr.com/photos/njeneb/
Forget Tuesday; It's just Monday spelled with a T

Hetzen

#12
That's pretty damned impressive, the basic shapes are definately there, which to me seems 70% of the battle to match up. Then you have your colouring and texturing, which seems very tweakable to get that dead on.

Mate, get a better machine, so we can see more of this stuff. Overclockers.co.uk are doing a motherboard with 6gigs of ram and an i7 overclocked and bench tested before despatch at 4Ghz! for £600.

dandelO

#13
Cheers, guys. :)

Here's some other photo-recreation renders I done a while ago in TG, if you'd like to see more(original reference photos are all in the image descriptions)...

http://dandel0.deviantart.com/art/The-Argonath-106580827
http://dandel0.deviantart.com/art/Morning-93836576
http://dandel0.deviantart.com/art/Neue-Elbbrucke-70310079

This last is pretty crap but it's TG, aswell. Just a very early TG and a very inexperienced me...
http://dandel0.deviantart.com/art/West-mains-avenue-56105009

Hetzen

I could only get the morning image to work, the others seem to be 404 for me. But bloody hell, a bit of z-blur and you're there with the one I saw.