I have added the snow to the trees and decided to put a fence in (not added
the final texture to this or the trees yet). Also I have adjusted the
colours of the sky a bit (not sure if it is better of worse as it depends
on the angle at which you view it on my LCD). Still need to give the poor
old snowman a face and some arms..

Any comments welcome

Thanks,

Sean

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s.day wrote:
> I have added the snow to the trees and decided to put a fence in (not added
> the final texture to this or the trees yet). Also I have adjusted the
> colours of the sky a bit (not sure if it is better of worse as it depends
> on the angle at which you view it on my LCD). Still need to give the poor
> old snowman a face and some arms..
> 
> Any comments welcome
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

Just... nice.

Wow. I'm impressed. I can almost feel the chill of the air and the 
warmth of the sun hitting my face with this image.

The only criticism I can give is the trees in the background are still a 
bit regular in their spacing (Possibly add a bit of jitter to the macro 
thats placing the tress?)
-- 
~Mike

Things! Billions of them!

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"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> I have added the snow to the trees and decided to put a fence in (not added
> the final texture to this or the trees yet). Also I have adjusted the
> colours of the sky a bit (not sure if it is better of worse as it depends
> on the angle at which you view it on my LCD). Still need to give the poor
> old snowman a face and some arms..
>
> Any comments welcome
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sean

I like the way the scene is composed at the moment.  I think when you add
the face it would look better if it were mostly away from the camera so
that we are somewhat behind the snowman and he is facing the sun.

-tgq

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Mike Raiford <mra### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> Just... nice.
>
> Wow. I'm impressed. I can almost feel the chill of the air and the
> warmth of the sun hitting my face with this image.
>
> The only criticism I can give is the trees in the background are still a
> bit regular in their spacing (Possibly add a bit of jitter to the macro
> thats placing the tress?)
> --

Thanks for reminding me.. Someone pointed out the trees in the last post and
I forgot to change them.. Added to my to do list now..

Thanks,

Sean

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"Trevor G Quayle" <Tin### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
>
> I like the way the scene is composed at the moment.  I think when you add
> the face it would look better if it were mostly away from the camera so
> that we are somewhat behind the snowman and he is facing the sun.
>
> -tgq

Thanks, I will probably try several views but that is the one I think will
look best.

Sean

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> The only criticism I can give is the trees in the background are still a
> bit regular in their spacing (Possibly add a bit of jitter to the macro
> thats placing the tress?)

An engaging image well executed!
I think the issue of the trees is about perceptions.
The trees are regular in height - not just placement.
As it stands it looks like a plantation with no boundaries - perhaps it was
planted that way?
To look more natural/unkempt it needs smaller trees/vegetation at the forest
margin and variation in height/size/type.
To look more managed it needs perhaps a fence/ utility line or similar
bounding human intrusion.
Thoughts?...

DLM

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Wow, you're image looks very promising! There's little I can find to 
nitpick but here we go: As others already pointed out the trees are too 
regular. Aside from that, the snow looks a bit strange, but I can't 
really tell why. The ground in the foreground could be a bit less bumpy 
and the details in the snow a bit softer (highlights also). Right now it 
looks very hard and frozen.


Keep up the good work!
Florian

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Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:
> Wow, you're image looks very promising! There's little I can find to
> nitpick but here we go: As others already pointed out the trees are too
> regular. Aside from that, the snow looks a bit strange, but I can't
> really tell why. The ground in the foreground could be a bit less bumpy
> and the details in the snow a bit softer (highlights also). Right now it
> looks very hard and frozen.
>
>
> Keep up the good work!
> Florian


Yes, perhaps it could be a bit smoother.  Either freshly fallen snow which
will give nice undulating bumps, or a little windswept with some drifting
around the snowman, tree truck and fenceposts. The general texture of the
snow looks pretty good though.

-tgq

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"DLM" <mae### [at] combumbiumdedu> wrote:
> > The only criticism I can give is the trees in the background are still a
> > bit regular in their spacing (Possibly add a bit of jitter to the macro
> > thats placing the tress?)
>
> An engaging image well executed!
> I think the issue of the trees is about perceptions.
> The trees are regular in height - not just placement.
> As it stands it looks like a plantation with no boundaries - perhaps it was
> planted that way?
> To look more natural/unkempt it needs smaller trees/vegetation at the forest
> margin and variation in height/size/type.
> To look more managed it needs perhaps a fence/ utility line or similar
> bounding human intrusion.
> Thoughts?...
>
> DLM

The trees are meant to look like they have been planted there and are
surrounding a field, although I do think they look a bit too uniform even
for this. They are (sort of) based on the view from my window in which the
trees are of very even height. There are actually 3 types of tree in the
copse although the majority are the large ones the other 2 don't really
show up very well (I actually rendered them in different colours to make
sure they were there as I couldn't spot them myself).

I may try the fence idea if I get time.

Thanks,

Sean

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Florian Brucker <tor### [at] torfboldcom> wrote:
> Wow, you're image looks very promising! There's little I can find to
> nitpick but here we go: As others already pointed out the trees are too
> regular. Aside from that, the snow looks a bit strange, but I can't
> really tell why. The ground in the foreground could be a bit less bumpy
> and the details in the snow a bit softer (highlights also). Right now it
> looks very hard and frozen.
>
>
> Keep up the good work!
> Florian

Yes, I agree it does look a bit frozen especially in the bottom right corner
of the image, I will try to fix this for the final image.

Thanks,

Sean

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