Painting with Light (Updated Version 2 on 2nd page)

[domdib]

Yes, very clever render - thanks for sharing the lighting info.

[Thelby]

Better be careful, there may be some Boogies out there at night!!! Nice work!!!

[RArcher]

The more I looked at the original, the less I liked it.  So here is an update.  I've brightened and whitened the light, brought the foreground trees more into focus, and updated the bark textures with some much higher resolution textures found at www.cgtextures.com.  Obviously for copyright reasons Marc cannot bundle these textures with his upcoming pack, but anyone can go there and create their own bark textures by hand.

Also with this render I disabled the sun completely.

Rendered at:

Detail 1
AA: 6
GI 1/3
Catmull-Rom filter

Took 1 hour 58 minutes

The depth pass took an additional hour.

[domdib]

Love the new textures.

[Saurav]

Supurb, looks photorealistic.

[FrankB]

woah, this is really photo-like!

Maybe Marc can include his own high-res texture as well ? (if not done already)

Frank

[Henry Blewer]

"The more I looked at the original, the less I liked it."

I have that occur often. My screen backdrop changer brings up old images I have done. I look at them and think 'what was I thinking'.

This is much better. I think it needed the sharpness that catmull brings.

[choronr]

Ryan, your talent and experience is a big asset to this program. Combined with so many others making contributions like this is advancing the knowledge of this great program.