 |
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
> You're making me wonder if Avatar is such an achievement after all.
I don't know: I haven't watched that film, and I've not read anything
about it... all I know is that it features CG people with blue skin! But
thanks for the comparison: must mean it looked convincing enough... :)
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
> For being a "quick hack", this render is very nicely done!
It's just one of these rare cases where everything was right almost at
first try.
> A little more color variation could help the trees,
I tried it at first, but then I didn't like it, and made the variation
more subtle, perhaps too much.
> and the smoke looks a little off, possibly because it was designed for a
> smaller-scale scene.
Yes, and also because the shape is too simple.
> For the most part, though, it looks good!
Thanks!
> It must be nice to have inspiration :(
It's a shame that nonexistent things can't be shared... :)
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
> "Quick hack"... you are joking Jaime! Such a scene would take me a couple
> of days at least.
Well, at least by my POV-Ray standards, a couple of days IS a quick hack!
> Excellent, as always. Very photographic.
Thanks!
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
spot-on! Even the muddy waters:
http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/amazon-river.jpg
Would it be too hard to introduce some variance to the density of distribution
and color of the trees? Also, some are larger than others...
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
Very nice. This will be my background for a while.
Maybe I've been playing with video games too long, but my first thought was
"he could make that tileable if he moved the river a bit."
I think shorter trees near the river might lend a bit more of an air of realism.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Ada - the programming language trying to avoid
you literally shooting yourself in the foot.
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
This picture makes me want to travel to the Amazon for an adventure! It's very
beautiful!
Regards,
Dave Blandston
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
>Jaime Vives Piqueres on date 15/05/2010 09:48 wrote:
> Hi All:
>
> Google image search is becoming my first source for unexpected
> inspiration... as usual, I was searching for something else, when found a
> nice aerial pic of the Amazon river.
>
It's impressive, looks so... natural!
;-)
Paolo
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
> spot-on! Even the muddy waters:
>
> http://i.treehugger.com/images/2007/10/24/amazon-river.jpg
Thanks, also for the reference pic, as it served to polish some details,
including some of the ones you mention later.
For the color variation I used directly colors picked from the pic you
linked, but they don't look so natural... perhaps because the sunlight color
is somewhat yellowish.
I think the density of the distribution is now better, but that was a nice
side effect of trying to implement a suggestion from Darren... ;)
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
Post a reply to this message
Attachments:
Download 'amazonas-07.jpg' (572 KB)
Preview of image 'amazonas-07.jpg'
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
El 16/05/10 19:12, Darren New escribió:
> Very nice. This will be my background for a while.
Thanks!
> I think shorter trees near the river might lend a bit more of an air of
> realism.
Actually, this was a great suggestion, specially because it lead to many
other little but important changes.
At first it looked too difficult to implement your suggestion, but in fact
it was very easy when I figured it out... again, the pigment function came
to the rescue: I used a heavily blurred version of the heightfield image
(which is basically a black river over a white background), and used that as
a multiplier to the trees scale. Simple, isn't? :)
I used additional tricks based on the same function, like translating the
trees down as they approach the river, so the ones just at the edge only
show the foliage, or like increasing the density of the distribution also
near the river (see the pic on my response to nemesis).
Thanks again!
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
> This picture makes me want to travel to the Amazon for an adventure! It's
> very beautiful!
Thanks!
--
Jaime Vives Piqueres
http://www.ignorancia.org
Post a reply to this message
|
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
| |
