Dead Calm

Dune · October 25, 2009, 04:10:30 AM

Just playing about, this image evolved. Found the submarine on the internet (Anders Lejczak, thanks). I first had some minor floating rocks (icebergs) around, but deleted them. This has more of the quietness of a remote environment.

---Dune

swissAdA · October 25, 2009, 04:28:01 AM

nice Picture!

Kevin F · October 25, 2009, 05:54:19 AM

I like it. Nice cold calm atmosphere and lovely sunset and reflections.

schmeerlap · October 25, 2009, 07:21:48 AM

Very good twilight scene. Great sky, and I like the reflection of the sun on the water, Also like the bergs and icefield. This is a step up from my "Das Boot" silhouetted use of the sub. What reflective settings have you got here. I feel the ice could be more reflective, ensuring you slide the Specular roughness control up to 0.8 to break up the reflective spots. Anders sure has some great quality freebie models.

John

rcallicotte · October 25, 2009, 08:33:03 AM

Very nice. Wish I was there...er, well, maybe.

I like the lighting and the icebergs looks sensational. But, a little more sheen or even slight transparency to the ice might help realism.

Henry Blewer · October 25, 2009, 08:54:04 AM

I think some translucency on the ice would help also. I like the sky very much.

Dune · October 25, 2009, 12:48:56 PM

@all: I wasn't very happy with the shine on the ice as well. I'll have another go at it. I also intend to add voronoi cracks, so the bergs are 'splitting'. The water has a reflectiveness of 0.5. I think 1 is often too much. I was also hoping to get some semi-transparant clouds turned orange, like 'normal' sunsets have, so that's another thing I have to work on.
I might want to make another one where the U99 is frozen over and stationary stuck into an icefield. with an extremely cold atmo.

---Dune

Ogre · October 25, 2009, 01:12:43 PM

Now just add Doug McClure and a few dinosaurs....

Kadri · October 25, 2009, 01:23:01 PM

Nothing much to add here,it is realy nice to watch this

One question Dune , I don't know why , but the background and foreground are as they were different. Is the horizon (short horizon by heigfield or such...) different?...

I am waiting for your new render

Kadri.

Dune · October 26, 2009, 02:59:43 AM

There's nothing different in the heightfield. Very basic perlin blended by another perlin + a default lake. I think it's because of the contrast between the dark water and the row of light ice peaks that gives this impression. And the water is very dark there because I changed the horizon color to a quite dark one.

---Dune

Kadri · October 26, 2009, 07:12:02 AM

Thanks , Dune.

I don't know why but especially the lower right part has a very nice feeling for me . I thing it would make a good animation

Kadri.

inkydigit · October 26, 2009, 07:39:54 AM

looks great, nicer ice would be greater!

MGebhart · October 26, 2009, 09:28:01 PM

Pass the parka!

Very excellent rendering.

Guess I'll run out and get a sub sandwich.

Keep on posting.

Marc

Dune · October 27, 2009, 03:38:06 AM

Here's another version. Added some melting ice floats, lightened the horizon haze color a bit, added reflectiveness to the floats. I initially added reflection to the icebergs but stopped the render after 6 hours (!), because it wasn't very visible, but took a lot of time. Rendered again (this one) without the reflective child, but with some 'fake reflections' in the form of some lighter colors (PF). A pity that reflections are so hard to calculate. Perhaps there is a way to fake this with less calculations, and still obtain a reasonable result for most cases, staff?
I also added some freezing over to the U99. And added some voronoi displacement to the bergs, but that didn't come out as expected. Blended by too dark perlin, I guess.

---Dune

FrankB · October 27, 2009, 03:41:49 AM

really nice this latest version