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Snowscape Challenge: Cameron James
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09 Jul 2005Here's me.... at 20 seconds a pop.
Not sure where it's headin just yet.
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09 Jul 2005Hey Bud...
Cool to see you in this...now, onto your image
1) Ok...your colour choice is hurting the eyes if you know what I mean. It's like you took your image into photoshop and boosted the saturation to the max....try creating softer midtones, with darker shadows and only a bit lighter highlights.
2) The image is very blurred....and it's hard to make out what stuff is.
3) The water (I'm assuming it's water) is too wavy. Have the z-amount for whatever kind of noise modifier you threw on there MUCH lower. In the ocean, the water is actually very flat....almost completely flat, save for a couple of very limited ripples.....Right now it looks very I-put-a-huge-noise-modifier-on-my-mesh! Instead of...look-at-me!-I'm-water!
Hehe...keep at it! -
09 Jul 2005Good points mate, I absolutely agree.
Will look into them. -
10 Jul 2005updatey
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10 Jul 2005much better, the water seems really frosty and glassy to me though.
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11 Jul 2005Yeah the second image does look better - though the top one is rather nice too (has that 'cartoonish' quality you have with some of your other work)
I think the waves look a lot nicer and much more... um, wavelike in the first image, though getting a nice water effect in under 3mins is gonna be quite a toughie if you intend to add some raytrace.
I recall a nice 'precessor friendly' approach to water, but I've forgotten the details. I'll see if I can dig it out from somewhere ( I think it had something to do with duplicating the water, moving it down a touch (on the Z axis) and dropping the opacity of the 'top' water mesh... ack I'll have a look for it) -
12 Jul 2005
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12 Jul 2005Still needs ALOT of work.
Weider, nah mate.. I'm leaning more towards snowy glaciers. Not the mountain kind of thing. -
13 Jul 2005ok ok
I found this really awesome image
http://www-gerg.tamu.edu/menu_fieldProg ... lacier.jpg
looking forward for the update!
[by the way, did you quit the3dstudio? you didn't post for 1 month] -
13 Jul 2005I can probably answer for him David...
Yes...a few of us have left the3dstudio...and that's why we started this forum! -
13 Jul 2005WOw, now that's the kind of reference I need. Thanks Weider.
and yes, Tyson is correct.
(btw, what is up with that link? what happened to the good old days of w w w . ?) -
14 Jul 2005cool, glad to help you
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14 Jul 2005i've never even heard of 3dstudio. but from the sounds of things, you guys didn't enjoy it too much...
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