Still Life: Ravaged World Surface

[supaflai]

I think it looks just great, shows a lot of character which is oftem lost on backgrounds...

[mv]

nice style. But I think those fractal surfaces in the background are unrealistic and have the usual-boring CG trademark on them.
Some complexity , shattered rock or struggling vegetation would definitely add more personality to the scene and fit the modeling with the rendering style.

[JohnD]

Thanks for the comments everyone. M@, would you believe that there are actually no fractal noise textures in the surface? Used photographs of rocks and dirt. But I agree with you and I'll play around to see if I can get rid of that fractal noise look.

[Matt Parker]

Looks great! if it hadn't been presented in here, i would have just considered it a real pic. Nice job.

Matt

[JohnD]

Thanks Matt. Great thing about Lightwave's renderer is that u can get very nice results with almost no setup. Basically only one light in this scene with radiosity and a tad bit of ambient light.

[mv]

no, you misundertood me. Your texture is cool...I was speaking of the modelling.
I think those smoothly peaking rocks (or whatever) are unnatural (not the foremost , that one looks nice); too smooth and fractal-noise style. You see what I mean?

[JohnD]

Ah, gotcha gotcha. Good point. I'll work on that.

[Pegasus]

WHAT AN ATHMOSPHERE

... and what a feeling..

Perfect setup :thumbsup:

[JohnD]

Hey thanks Pegasus. I just love the old Don Bluth films...the awesome watercolor backdrops they had "Secret of NIMH" sticks out in my head. Trying to capture the same feeling.

[paconavarro]

That´s a great image!!!!!!!!!!!

Like a lot the snowy feeling on it :thumbsup:

Please show us a wire... I guess it will be simple but let me see

[JohnD]

Thanks Paconavarro. Here is the wireframe.

[Frank Dodd]

As an alienesqe landscape I love it, both the form of the terrain and the texturing, it looks like a cold damp desolate alien world. :bounce:

[JohnD]

Hey Frank. Thanks for the compliment. I'll post some landscape pics as they come about.
Cheers:beer:

[Exception]

Very nice

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