Environment: Springtime nature scene

[FatAssasin]

That's really beautiful. I like all the detail. The only crit I would have is that all the plants are standing up too straight. Put some more variety into the way the stems are angled and it will look more natural.

[coCoKNIght]

Very beautifull, only crit: The trees on the back should not be so sharp, maybe add some more depht of field?

[xinraylife]

great image.

now i use xfrog make my works,but xfrog's animation is too
complex to use it,Could you tell me how control its keyframe?

[Walli]

thanx for the hints!

@xinraylife
actually keyframing works like in most other apps. with doubleclick on the timeline you can add a keyframe and every parameter you change (while this keyframe is active) will be stored.
The only problem - there is only one timeline....

@coCoKNIght
they are already out of focus, but because they are near to the camera (in contrast to the hills in the background) I did not want to blur them to much.
But perhaps I will do some more tests, because I am thinking of using this scene as environment for a fantasy charcter - if I have time :)

best,

Walli

[yama]

:thumbsup:
i m so like it


:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[xinraylife]

i expecting your final work

[BiTMAP]

I just realised, you should have moss on the sides of teh fence posts toO! (woah that turned out funky! )

[KiboOst]

Yeah, really nice image !!! :thumbsup:

Kib

[sampi]

great pic man
i like it :applause: :applause:
just add some more depht of field .

[ThirdEye]

The cgtalk C4D community is growing day by day :applause: great pic! :thumbsup:

[Spliff_Richards]

Yes depth of field is the way, the foreground stuff is to sharp.

[altermind]

how did u make the textures........ tell me :)

don't tell me xfrog does all of them aswell :)

[Walli]

..more and more I feel too that the foreground is to sharp.

fter seeing the finished the rendering, I wanted to sharpen it in Photoimpact, but now I think I should have leaved it "original".

DOF is a little problem - because most of the leaf´s use texture with alphamap, DOF won´t be calculated correctly in Cinema4D (because the DOF is a post effect - one of the last weaknesses of Cinema4D).

The textures are scanned, handpainted or procedural - just what worked best ;) .
In most cases I used combinations to get more variations.

best,
Walli

[CDS]

as most of the critable items have been mentioned, Id just like to say I really like the scene and the render, reminds me of a place that I fly fish at. I think when an image/render can envoke an emotional/memory response, then I feel that the artist has acomplished something.

Great work.

[kyphur]

The thing I see most besides the lack of the Depth of Field is the fact the lighting seems wrong. It should be warmer like summer, not like it's on a soundstage somewhere.

Kyph

[XerC]

Hi Walli! Nice to see you here *addToBuddyList* :wavey:
Your pic is great. If you want to avoid probles with the DoF, I'd suggest just to use a sharper background image and a wide-angle lens. This should solve the problem, I think, for a small amount of DoF is (even in Cinema 4D :p) possible to achieve without too much alpha-map problems ;)

Greetings,
XerC

[Walli]

hi,

thanx again for all the critiques.

I tried to improve the lighting, so here is the (for now:) ) finished picture

http://www.wallis-eck.de/galerie/n_springtime01.jpg

best regards,
Walli

[coCoKNIght]

Congratulations, it's wonderful! It almost makes me forget that there is plenty of snow out there :) good work :thumbsup:

[stephen2002]

looks good. I wouldn't change the DOF anymore. Cameras can vary from having everything sharp to only haveing a small area in focus.

However it looks like there is a cliff right beyond the fence. Mainly because there is so much foliage in such a small area and then nothing.

[Daniel]

Hmmm, Hi erstmal ;)

Die Baum Bump sieht komisch aus. Soviele kleine Highlights (bzw. weiße flecken).

Diese Blurry Berge im BG kommen net so gut. Dadurch hat man das Gefühl als ob man auf nem Berg steht....Und es ein paar meter gleich berg ab geht!

Sieht einfach komisch aus...

Wo steht eigentlich die Sonne?

Die Berge im BG sagen rechts oben. Abe rmir fehlen dann ein wenig Schatten im Gras. Vor allem der Baum sollte einen großen Schatten werfen.

Sorry für soviel Kritik :wavey:

Just my two €.

Cya.

[karabo]

yes, I would have to agree that it looks like there is a cliff right there. I'm not sure if this is the effect you wanted.

[Walli]

..the landscape makes a drop of about 10 to 20meters, there you´ll find the trees in the background (some kind of pinus).

after that the landscape "falls down" to a valley.

so in fact it is a cliff and the hills in the background are far away..

best,
Walli

P.S Die Berge? Da kommt die Sonne von links oben! Exakt wie im Vordergrund beim Baum..

[xinraylife]

Walli

Ask you one question,your image size is 120k,but
why I only can remit lower 40K size.
could you tell me the reason?

[slice56]

because he is most likely hosting the image from his site.

[unrealwarfare]

unbelievable work. awesome detail. but it looks like the scene ends abruptly.. and there is like a huge whole, and the background...

but its still awesome

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