In my opinion this is a MAJOR improvement and the image goes directly to my
personal hall of fame!  It's probably further and further away from your
original idea, but these colors are beautiful. The iglo makes more sense
now, and is clearer. The sky and sun is great.

It's not exactly like anything I've seen before. The mountains doesn't look
like typical icebergs. Nothing is flat either, as I imagine large flat areas
from the poles. Though I don't have reference pictures right here.

I would keep this setup in the records, in any case.. I don't know how to
make it more 'lonely' if that's still important. Maybe some snow, blowing in
the foreground but that's a major project as well.

Regards,
Hugo

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Much better!

--josh

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Just gorgeous!

The media, and the lighting look perfect.  However, I don't think polar 
regions get these kinds of clouds very often as they are usually 
associated with warm humid weather.

I also think the little hills should be smaller, i.e. just snowbanks. 
Add a distant mountain range in the background to one side, and a flat 
expanse of frozen sea to the other, and you have the perfect pic, imho.


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> Just gorgeous!

Thank you very much!

Regarding the clouds: I kinda like them, and, though its
probably very rare that they occur there, its just rare, not
impossible... :-) (Just trying to argument why I wanna keep
them...)

Regarding the mountains and the ocean...
Nice idea, problem is, the scene has developed far
from what it was meant to be, so the script isn't
really supportive for distant mountain ranges or
a water-plane... I fiddling about to an extent where
I *know* that the mountains are just faked in size
and the water is actually just a box...

Nah. That's not my style. But perhaps someone else
will try, using isosurfaces for the landscape (cause I think
they are more suited for jaggy icerocks...)


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Thank you!

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Well, the loneliness topic for this image was lost a
loooong time ago, not that it matters when the image
is nice...
As for the landscape: many have said it wasn't very
realistic, but perhaps I'll try your idea of making them less
high. I'll see, but I'm pretty content with it right now...
Finally. ;-)


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Very col pic, but the snow and ice should be much brighter, unless of course
you are keeping it dark for a reason.  Even in twilight the snow should look
pretty white.  I love your landscape, though

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This is really good Tim, as if you didn't know.

Someone said before how the snow seems more like desert sand dunes than
desert snow dunes and I can't get that out of my mind still. It's the tinge
of red still in there that does it, even though it's basically a gray-blue
instead. Maybe what I'm trying to see here is a lot more nearby bluish
places from sky reflection, something like where that spot is far right and
on the horizon. Likewise the igloo itself, a more blue-white on the shadowed
side would seem icey to me. And the shadow/light contrast of the ground
isn't as different as I'd expect to be seeing, which I guess someone had
also said in a previous thread if I remember that right.

Got to ask this then, are you using assumed_gamma 1.0? I try to use that and
always find myself leaving it out or specifying anywhere from >1.0 to < 3.0.
I probably shouldn't but when all else fails I start changing the gamma.
Afraid any change like that would destroy that sky though.

Fellow believer in endless scene tweaks,
Bob

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"Tim Nikias" <tim### [at] gmxde> wrote in message
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> How about this I'm not too happy yet, have to toy around
> with the colors a little more, but some comments are always
> helpful, especially from people who have some more insight...
>

Very very nice. Maybe add a bit more shine on the snow.

Gail
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that is looking nice.  the clouds are what?  media?
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