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Snowscape Challenge: Lee Croudy
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11 Jul 2005Well I'm in, simply because it's fun to make snowy pictures when you are sitting in 35 degree heat
Never have been very good with textures but it's coming along. Had lots of fun making the geometry with gradient ramps though
Render Time = 1:28mins
P4 2Ghz / 512Mb Ram
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11 Jul 2005Wow... now that is a snow scene! Great work mate, where are you heading with this?
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13 Jul 2005Well, I was tempted to leave it as is and concentrate on other things, but I couldn't resist a little tweak
(heh, not so little a twaek as I've actually spent longer on this than I should have done... though most of that time was test renders etc)
Anyhoo here it is... comments / crits are more than welcome though I gotta start concentrating on other things now so I shall probably call it finished.
There is raytrace on the water (sadly no antialiasing or refraction as that takes it way over the 3 minute mark.) But to cover up the jaggedy edges I managed to squeeze in some volume fog (I'd like it to be a little thicker and have more wispy tendrils... but again limits limits limits!)
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14 Jul 2005is it a Scanline render?
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14 Jul 2005i love the look and feel of it. feels very cold and wintery. the only thing that draws back from the overall image is the obvious sharp dropoff between land and water at the bottom of the image. maybe if you extended the water past the field of view, completely immersing that land on tyhe bottom, it would look alot better.
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14 Jul 2005I'm liking it for sure. Could you put some form of clouds/noise/gradient in the bg to give a sense of atmosphere?
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17 Jul 2005Thanks for the suggestions guys, have managed to implement them all and stay under the 3 minute mark. I actually did have a gradient background on it, but made it a little more apparent in this update.
As for the snowy patch in the foreground, I quite liked it compositionally but I hadn't done a very good job of it so it's now gone. Knowing that extra raytrace would add to the rendertime I adjusted the camera slightly to cut out a bit more geometry and moved the water down a touch on the z-axis so there was slightly less surface area to raytrace.
Anyhoo, as this is the last day of the challenge this is my final image.
Render time = 2:44
Overall I'm pretty happy with it as landscapes are not something I've ever concentrated on. But I think it needs more penguins... -
18 Jul 2005i like it. glad ye took the advice
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