Still life: Turtle in the water.

[ALZHEM]

:) Really aMazingER Z

The textures are incredibles and the DOF effect very good. It's real :)

[.FX.]

That looks totally real!!!:buttrock:

[kinston]

the texture great, i love it
do u mind share something about how u create ur great texture??

thanks

[Tom N.]

daaang, looks very real, you did a good job blending the background with the turtle and all. Excellent!

-Tom N.

[Supernova]

Hey, really nice compositing...It really looks like part of the original picture..
Nothing to critique here for me...:D

[Daveaustin]

truly amazing! but i noticed you've comped it in some pretty shallow water.. so i'm thinking it should have some sort of shadow on the sea bed :shrug:

other than that... perfecto..:thumbsup:

[Aros]

Oh my god! This is the most realistic piece of CG I've ever seen.

Keep it up!! :thumbsup:

[Zero_Gambit]

very nice work

[ja3d]

Really fantastic composition, very realistic, congratulations, excelent work.:applause:

[John Lee]

:thumbsup: EXCELLENT MAN! did you use any ref?

[Virtual Turtle-]

Originally posted by Daveaustin
truly amazing! but i noticed you've comped it in some pretty shallow water.. so i'm thinking it should have some sort of shadow on the sea bed :shrug:

other than that... perfecto..:thumbsup:


It does have a shadow, the head is just to the right of the coral, and the fin is just to the left, you can't see it very well because of all the other shadows but it's there. Just follow the line. Or maybe I'm wrong but I do see a shadow.

Damn awesome image though!

[IDownupI]

My Name IS :scream:


I whant a wire of this one:wavey:

[Signal2Noise]

Admit it. You were at Monterey Bay Aquarium and took a photo ;)

If not, then it's a really nice piece of work.:thumbsup:

[PixeleD]

woa... omg man! this is fantastic :eek:
so realistic and detailed.. :drool:

can we see the wireframe? just to know its modelled

[xynaria]

:bounce: :beer: :beer: :bounce:

[shut]

can we see a wireframe please?:rolleyes: :airguitar

[Tellerve]

I think the turtle is great, but it seems a bit too close to the sea bed while not entirely looking like it is that close to the sea bed. *shrugs* I watch far too many nature shows :)

Tellerve

[dark_lotus]

Georgeous!

Thats a stunning composite, you even matched the caustics on the shell,

I'm looking forward to seeing the wireframe!

[ivanphchu]

Oh my God! Is this a picture from National Geograhpic??
Good work!!!:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Chaos Maximus]

Hey,

very nice job, two notes, ive seen sea turtles while scuba diving, and in nature shows and im pretty sure that the shell you make is more like a tortous than a sea turtle. sea turtle shels are smother, cause they are hydrodynamice. Not a huge deal, most people wont notice though.

I do think you should get a nicer backdrop that doesnt have so much turquoise haze, a pic with clearer water will show off the work you did better.

good luck , keep it up

[JBoskma]

sjezus awesome! the DoF perfectly flows with the picture, great work! :thumbsup:

[aurora]

For those questioning the CG nature of this stunning piece of work take alook at his front flipper its bump mapped, theres no displacements along its nice long smooth curve. This is one incredible piece of work. Major Kudos to you and a major begging job from me for a run down on your tech!!:applause:

[bigbad]

Thanx guys for the responces.
Well actually I know nothing about turtles. I had like 5 reference pictures of completely diffrent turtles. So it´s a fictional turtle.

Here´s the wireframe.

http://medlem.spray.se/bigbad/tur03.jpg

[bigbad]

Here is one without photoshop and bakground.

http://medlem.spray.se/bigbad/tur01.jpg

[Royal]

Truly nice work :thumbsup:

[phoenix2k]

wow... amazing... looks like a photo... nice composition too!!! !:thumbsup:

[santiago]

it's so real!

[Gyre]

This is truly terrific work! It's photo-realistic! Very very good job! :thumbsup:

[lildragon]

Simply incredible acheivement here. Can you share any tips on how you kept the textures from stretching after you applied polysmooth? Also how long was the render time?

Very nice work :thumbsup:

salud

[Mr_BUG]

nice dude, but some kind of strange feeling about the background, i think the composition is good but i can see the difference between the bakground and the model

[nObedienz]

Great to see so many talented artists from scandinavia these days,
let's put it in this way, you're not making the list shorter bigbad

:beer:

[bigbad]

I didn´t do anything special with the textures. I did simple planar map and choose relax UVs. That seemed to do the trick. I used only planar mapping.

I used a global lightning (a lightdome). You can found it at higend3d.com i belive. It´s a lightning that does soft shadows.
The rendertime is 2 minutes at 1280*1024.

Here are the textures. 25% of their real size.
http://medlem.spray.se/bigbad/textures01.jpg

Thats it. :shrug:

[Spozzfreund]

Wow! Perfect! :bowdown:

[stephen2002]

quite impressive work. The turtle looks to be part of the photo.

[HapZungLam]

seriously, i thought the whole image is a photograph.

:applause: :applause:

[travis007]

holy f... damn thats real looking. nice job!

[Aeroplane]

:bowdown: :bowdown:
Crazy Work,man.
:buttrock:

[Chaos Maximus]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by bigbad
[B]Well actually I know nothing about turtles. I had like 5 reference pictures of completely diffrent turtles. So it´s a fictional turtle.
[QUOTE]

Hehe. Im kind of happy i spotted it, i did think the turtle was mixed and matched. No big deal, its probably the ancestor of a modern sea turtle, as they were evolving from land turtles.

anyway, have fun, awesome job.

[facial]

Great work, I love it. Keep post up... :eek:

[bigbad]

Here is a shoot from the belly.

Tried to put him on one more underwater scene. But doesn´t get as good as the first one. :shrug:
http://medlem.spray.se/bigbad/tur_bell.jpg

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