trying

anyone has tips for navigating the 3000 mile scene?

dropping a dragon, cant see him over the terrain.

i lower the terrain low,low to zoom to the dragon, but then the horizon line mars my scene.

how do you handle it?

any tricks for farmlands from high altitude views?

All CG is trickery. If this is for a still, then a typical work-around I've used is to render the landscape view without the dragon in it. Then create a new scene with the same render dimensions and use the rendered landscape as a backdrop.

thanks.

is for animation. so far i have a camera and 3 lights parented to the draggon

has an idea to put the whole terrain inside a giant geosphere instead of a sky preset to get rid of the horizon line

anything glows doesn't seem to emit light. there is a nice taurus shape light

I did the exact thing I described to you for these images. I rendered the scene outside the window first because the DOF and ray trace through the window glass was crushing Carrara's render times. So, a quick 'background' render which was in focus (just a few minutes), then blur in photoshop, add back into the scene as a background image (turned off all the actually CG background stuff) and then could experiment with textures on the windows and bottles with render times that were waaaaaaaay less than what I was experiencing earlier.

Since animation, you can still do the background trick if you want - and blur the horizon line. Scaling the dragon while doing a slow camera move can create a similar results but looks like a much quicker zoom into the dragon.

MarkBremmer posted at 2:35PM Sun, 12 April 2020 - #4385955

I did the exact thing I described to you for these images.

Those look great, especially the first one.

Beautiful renders, Mark.

shot glass of spirits would cure the virus blahs

oooo a dolly zoom to focus on a distance blurred dragon, a fantastic notion,. thank you!!

perusing the gallery, cant think of anything that hasnt been covered.

mebbe more caustics renders