Environment: Arches in the Morning (á la Roger Dean)

[Kaprolactam]

For those of you that don't know the original image:
http://www.hinchliffe.org/jon/graphics/rd%20arches-1morning.jpg

Since it is only an adaptation, I took the freedom to leave out the green part in the foreground.

[Troy]

This is good, why hasn't it got any replies?

Could you post a wireframe maybe? and some more details about how you achieved the look of the rocks.. thanks

[Stewpot]

Hi Kaprolactam,

Comparing it with the original it looks as if it might benefit from a little post work. Try adding the smallest amount of noise.

[l3d_davi]

post wireframe to see but looks cool :):thumbsup:

[JoeBananas]

Nice! I think you've managed to recreate his style really well. It definitely has that Rodger Dean look.

I saw that bubble shaped 'yoda' style house he built once, it looked really good, but smaller than I thought it would be.

[wgreenlee1]

pretty impresive


i agree about the noise

[Seraph135]

Thats pretty cool! Nice job!

The colors are great and the style looks right on.

[Liquidstudio]

Hey dude, this is nice man!
Its now my desktop I hope you dont mind?

[Piata]

I rikey :thumbsup:

[numlock]

:buttrock:
that rocks...very surrealism .like it:)

[Zack]

Looks great It would be really cool if you made the tree bigger and more like the original.

[Kaprolactam]

Phew. Kinda forgot to look for replies. I mean, last time i looked there weren't any... ;)
As soon as I'm at home, I'll post a wireframe or two, and if I understand how I did it when I did it, I'll explain it. Some time has passed, you know?

Regards,
Kapro

[Kood]

Looks good, even better when you posted your reference. Close match. :thumbsup:

I bought my Dad two concert tickets to see the Yes anniversary tour this xmas. :) Hope it's good (I've never listened to them but he loves them).

[Kaprolactam]

Here's the Wireframe:

http://komod.f5.fhtw-berlin.de/~Janssen/arches_wireframe.gif

How I did it:

The Main Thing is a Toon shader which basically says which color goes where, so there actually is no "real" lighting, it's merely a gradient that spreads from "normals pointing towards light source" to "normals pointing away from light source" and goes from yellow to orangeish-red to blue. The Shadows have a negative blue umbra color assigned, so they in fact darken the underlying materials, not just keep away the light. A blue fill light adds tonality in the shadows, and a white "rim-light" in the toon shader emphasizes the depth of the columns. Well, that's pretty much it. The rest is a procedural rock shader (from Dark Tree, I think) and displacement mapping. The environment is a plane and a sphere with the sky gradient and has a gradient alpha transition between the reflecting water material and the horizon/sky-colors assigned.

Regards,
Paul

[Kaprolactam]

***edit***
Argh - where did that posting come from?

[nobrain]

wheres the image, i see original, and wire but no rendered image. what happened to it?

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