This is My sleeping giant image re-visited . This is the one with the lighthouse I was asking about in an earlier thread. The cones of light werevolumetric light cones but it was taking days to render so I switched them to cone objects and thextured the to simulate light. the one going across the back of the giant is there to silloette(SP) the giant so he wouldnt blend into the background so much. the giant Is a Poser model torn apart and Itextured the body parts individally using similer textures but different mapping modes. this is normal quality Anti aliasing but the stars seem a little square (which is an object not the Bryce stars) perhaps I should do a fine art render on this one eh? Comments and suggestions as always welcomed. Hawkfyr

Oh BTW no post work was done in this image ......yet lol Hawkfyr

I love the sky (stars) and the clouds you added, great job!

I love it Hawkfyr, reminds me of poor gullive being attacked by the lilliputan fleet. Great job and I agree with FT the sky looks great. Tempest

The sky is great. Wish I could do as well. The rock texture on the giant I'm not so sure about. And you need to get some variety in the boats, not all facing the same direction.

Thanks guys, I agree about the texture, I tried many trying to get it so the Giant was'nt so obvious so I had to modify it to blend in with the background and then He got lost altogether So thats why I tried the lighthouse beam trick to give him some outline with trying to keep the overall terrain environment texture....basically the same. It was tough (for me) to get that I need to try some other things I suppose. The sky you may have notice is a tweaked recycle of my "Spirit of the radio" post minus the stars although spirit was majorly modified those clouds reside on my harddrive as a file all by itself called "Clouds" ...Duh anyway I just merge that document into the current scene and tweak to fit. I can tell you how I did it Bone it's justa bunch of spheres really. FT The stars are awesome arent they? I forget where I got it but it's an obp. I downloded called "Accurate starfield " it was made by a guy from NASA ans is supposedly accurate. I havnt studied it that far ...but It does make for an awesome starfield. it's just a huge Sphere. Thats a hard to find obp.and if you guys want it I can send it to you. ..the cloud file too if you want. The boats were tougher than I thought ..I wanted them to be departing the harbor but positioned so they were caught in the reflection of the light beams. Thanks for the reply guys Hawkfyr

Oh Btw Tempest, I'm thinking about doing a gullivers travels image. after doing this one I got some other Ideas for Giants in images. I'm Glad you like it. Hawkfyr

Im touched, my opinion actually matters to someone, wow, I feel speacial. Tempest

Very nice Hawk :) -F3nix

Thanks F3nix, Really , REALLY, glad to see you here. Hawkfyr

great image! i love those clouds- and the stars too... all the stuff i was gonna say has pretty much been said already LOL- so sorry to be unoriginal but hey and i think that wolfie ( www.wolfiesden.com ) has an .opd starfield sphere- i don't think he works at NASA tho so i'm not sure if it's the same one LOL... Gecko

Nice work. :)