If you'd shown me this pic somewhere else, I hadn't believed that it's CG. I
like it very much the way it is. Maybe the sunflare is a bit too much, but
that's not important. This gets better and better - I even printed out one
of your previous versions (to stop those silly birds to fly against my
window - it works).

If you don't like it the way it is: Do you think you will ever be satisfied
with this picture?

I would like to know how you made that post? Is it procedural or are
picture_maps involved? If the first - how is the nice bark made?

I would really love to be able to make such beautiful pictures!

Marc-Hendrik

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Hi Marc

Thanks, Yes I will finish it I'm getting very close now.

The post was made in ZBrush by using an image map of bark to create a mask and then
"inflating" the unmasked areas. Bit like
displacement mapping. It was then textured with the same image map and some extra
normals.

Mick

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:21:37 +0100, "Mick Hazelgrove"
<mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote:

>Hi All
>
>Thanks to Peter I've given the sky a more dramatic look and 
>I've also changed the viewpoint as suggested by Lance.

Wow, you really got the mood I had in mind - and to think you said it
was near impossible to do it in POV :)

>Still not happy with the snow or the lighting on the post 
>which just will not behave!

Some cheating - light groups and such?

>Still some work to do on the rocks and the textures and a 
>figure to add.

Yes, the background seems a little pasted somehow, though I can't put
my finger on the exact reason.

>Comments as ever welcome.

To summarize: magnifique!


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"Mick Hazelgrove" <mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote in message
news:3d57c54c@news.povray.org...
> Hi All
>
> Thanks to Peter I've given the sky a more dramatic look and I've also
changed the viewpoint as suggested by Lance.
>
> Still not happy with the snow or the lighting on the post which just will
not behave!
>
> Still some work to do on the rocks and the textures and a figure to add.
>
> Comments as ever welcome.
>
> Mick
>
>
>
>
>

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"Mick Hazelgrove" <mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote in message
news:3d57c54c@news.povray.org...

> Hi All
> Thanks to Peter I've given the sky a more dramatic look and I've also
changed the viewpoint as suggested by Lance.
> Still not happy with the snow or the lighting on the post which just will
not behave!
> Still some work to do on the rocks and the textures and a figure to add.
> Comments as ever welcome.

Looking good but..

1. The lighting of the sky and the ground don't quite match.
2. The sky looks like a clipping from a picture that's scaled
way up and placed behind the scene as a poster, there's no
variation with height
3. The landscape looks too outlandish (unless that was the
intention), go easier on blues and greens and maybe add some
fog.
4. I would get rid of the vertical blue rocks on the left and layer
the snow covered hills to give a sense of scale.

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On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 15:21:37 +0100, Mick Hazelgrove wrote:
 
> Comments as ever welcome.

I think you only get that blue/green snow when it's refleting water, so 
you wouldn't get an entire landscape like this all being that blue/green
colour, particularly with such a grey sky. 

Umm it's a hell of a big file too. 

The bird and sky look great.

Just my 2p. 

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Hi Gail

Thanks

Media, two spherical layers

Mick

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