"Hugo Asm" <hua### [at] post3teledk> wrote in message
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> I like it very much! Nice selection of colours (or lack of colours). Has
the
> right mood!  Somehow it's simple - though I know it isn't simple.  :o)

That's what I was going for, simple but interesting

> Thumbs up for photorealism.  If this image isn't a slow-render, then maybe
> you will render it with better anti-alias next time? Then the branches
won't
> look disjointed / broken.
>

That's +AM2 +R3 +A0.1 for a 5 hour render. Next time I'll just render it
double
size and let psp resize sort things out.

Gail
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"Xplo Eristotle" <xpl### [at] infomagicnet> wrote in message
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> Reminds me of certain Magic cards.. players will remember the swamps. :D

It's inspired by one of the earlier swamp cards. I never played, but one of
my
friends did

Gail
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"Marc Jacquier" <jac### [at] wanadoofr> wrote in message
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> > And an idea that came to mind a week or so ago.
> >
> I love it!
> It has a so sorrow mood
> A few things I'd feel improvable: reeds are a bit too regular in size
IMHO.
> water waves should be smaller and shorter on  swamps this size: wind needs
> some distance  to build such a wave length.

Thanks, I'll adjust some of the scales.

> but I love the darkness of this scene: we don't know what hour it is. Day
is
> a long long gray laps of time... a scary night might fall at once.

It's actually midday, not that you'd know it by the light. Time has very
little
meaning here. Little changes from one day to the next

Gail
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"Samuel Benge" <stb### [at] hotmailcom> wrote in message
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> Somebody else mentioned Lord of the Rings, but I know which part this is
> from: it's when Frodo, Sam and Gollum are passing over the swamp, and
> floating below the water's surface are ghastly apparitions of the long
> deceased. Their pale faces staring blankly up to the surface....

It wasn't based on the LotR movie, but now that I think back to the movie,
it's
ver similar

> I've been thinking for some time the idea must be rendered in POV somehow.

I've got a scene in mind based on a similar idea. An enchanted lake in a
faerie
forest. Beneath the surface sleep the heros of days gone by, waiting for the
time they are needed again.

> Maybe that's what the scene needs.... a few corpses :)

Maybe, maybe not...

Gail
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"GreyBeard" <r.b### [at] sbcglobalnet> wrote in message
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> "Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] sentechsacom> wrote in message
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> > And an idea that came to mind a week or so ago.
> >
> > I'm going to put a little lizard on the branch in the foreground. Other
> than
> > that,
> > I'm not sure what to do with this
> >
> > Comments, suggestions?
>
> Beautiful!  As one that's fascinated by swamps, this is one of the best
> representations I've seen.  The only comment, and purely my own, a thin
> ground haze, not enough to obscure the horizon, but to make the distant
> objects "ghosted".

There's fog already, just nothing far enough away to be 'ghosted'
I'm considering another layer of fog, very turbulent and very close to the
ground

Gail
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"Thomas de Groot" <t.d### [at] internlnet> wrote in message
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>
> So many comments already, that I am afraid to repeat. Great image with
> excellent atmosphere. In the far background I would place the silhouette
of
> a forest. Swamps are often restricted in size (at least the deep parts),
and
> surrounded by forested highs.

The distant background definatly needs work

> A little ground fog, also. A lone bird
> (falcon) in the sky could increase dramatic effect.

Oohhh, I like that.

> A lizard? This  looks
> like a rather cold swamp to me! Too cold for a (cold blooded) lizard.

Never let reality get in the way of a good picture *grin*
I certainly didn't intend this as a cold swamp.

Gail
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> It's actually midday, not that you'd know it by the light. Time has very
> little
> meaning here. Little changes from one day to the next
>
Yes monotony ...  as in Sqornshellous Zeta marshes
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Marc

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"Gail Shaw" <gsh### [at] sentechsacom> schreef in bericht
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>
> > A lizard? This  looks
> > like a rather cold swamp to me! Too cold for a (cold blooded) lizard.
>
> Never let reality get in the way of a good picture *grin*
> I certainly didn't intend this as a cold swamp.
>
You are perfectly right! A lizard it should be then!

Thomas

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woa!  Neat!  How did you make the trees?




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"povray" <pov### [at] bestwebnetalmost> wrote in message
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> woa!  Neat!  How did you make the trees?
>

XFrog

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