Still not a finished image but thought I would post this as I am pleased with
the progress. I have modified the rock texture (added a wet look near the bottom
of the rocks to the left and tweaked the texture a bit). Also added a rougher
looking sea. Knowing me I will modify it and ruin it so figured best to post
this one so I have a backup of the image ;-)

Sean

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On 06/11/2013 06:16 PM, s.day wrote:
> Still not a finished image but thought I would post this as I am pleased with
> the progress. I have modified the rock texture (added a wet look near the bottom
> of the rocks to the left and tweaked the texture a bit). Also added a rougher
> looking sea. Knowing me I will modify it and ruin it so figured best to post
> this one so I have a backup of the image ;-)
>
> Sean
>
i like it ... nice texture work!

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"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> Still not a finished image but thought I would post this as I am pleased with
> the progress. I have modified the rock texture (added a wet look near the bottom
> of the rocks to the left and tweaked the texture a bit). Also added a rougher
> looking sea. Knowing me I will modify it and ruin it so figured best to post
> this one so I have a backup of the image ;-)
>
> Sean

Really good. Captures the bright sky, dark land effect one sees early
morning/late evening extremely well. Good work with the sea, I imagine that's
really difficult to get right.

I wonder, would some cloud on the horizon work well, or distract too much?

Bill

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On 12-6-2013 0:16, s.day wrote:
> Still not a finished image but thought I would post this as I am pleased with
> the progress. I have modified the rock texture (added a wet look near the bottom
> of the rocks to the left and tweaked the texture a bit). Also added a rougher
> looking sea. Knowing me I will modify it and ruin it so figured best to post
> this one so I have a backup of the image ;-)
>

To be sure, I shall keep this version in my reference collection. You 
can almost smell the sea and hear the surf. I think you have gotten 
things right and I suggest you do not tweak too much further.

Thomas

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James Holsenback wrote:
> i like it ... nice texture work!

Thanks, I am pretty pleased with how it is going, I had a bit of an 
issue when nesting texture_maps where suddenly the performance 
completely dropped off. (I actually gave up waiting for the first square 
of the image to appear to even see the results). Not really sure what it 
was as the same nested texture map worked OK on a simple sphere scene.

If I can workout how to reliably reproduce the issue in a less complex 
scene I will post a message as it may be a bug (it really was that bad a 
drop in performance).

Sean

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Bill Pragnell wrote:
> Really good. Captures the bright sky, dark land effect one sees early
> morning/late evening extremely well. Good work with the sea, I imagine that's
> really difficult to get right.
>
> I wonder, would some cloud on the horizon work well, or distract too much?
>
> Bill

Hi Bill,

Yes, the sea was fairly troublesome. This is a technique I have been 
working on for some time, I call it 'trial and error' ;-)

There will definitely be clouds on the horizon in the final image, and 
some spray around the rocks (at least in my mind there is, I just need 
to get something I am happy with but that doesn't take too long to render).

Thanks

Sean

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> To be sure, I shall keep this version in my reference collection. You
> can almost smell the sea and hear the surf. I think you have gotten
> things right and I suggest you do not tweak too much further.
>
> Thomas
>
Thanks Thomas, I think a backup of the pov source is called.

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"s.day" <s.d### [at] uelacuk> wrote:
> Still not a finished image but thought I would post this as I am pleased with
> the progress. I have modified the rock texture (added a wet look near the bottom
> of the rocks to the left and tweaked the texture a bit). Also added a rougher
> looking sea. Knowing me I will modify it and ruin it so figured best to post
> this one so I have a backup of the image ;-)
>
> Sean

This is really looking fantastic Sean! And I was planning to do a Giant's
Causeway, oh well... back to the drawing board.

-Rob

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"Robert McGregor" <rob### [at] mcgregorfineartcom> wrote:
>
> This is really looking fantastic Sean! And I was planning to do a Giant's
> Causeway, oh well... back to the drawing board.
>
> -Rob

Thanks, I see no problem with 2 people submitting images on the same subject
especially if you have already started work on the scene. I think with topics
like the current one there is a lot of chance that 2 or more entrants will have
similar ideas.

Either way, I am looking forward to seeing your entry, your images are always
top notch.

Sean

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On 13-6-2013 5:40, Robert McGregor wrote:
> This is really looking fantastic Sean! And I was planning to do a Giant's
> Causeway, oh well... back to the drawing board.

That should not keep you away at all! There are causeways and causeways 
after all.

Thomas

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