Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=669014&Start=1&Artist=ddruckenmiller&ByArtist=Yes

One of Meski's barns was sacrificed in the making of this image.

Very cool indeed. How did you create the twister? Both look good, but I like the dark one better.(Slightly)

Yup, I like the blue-ish one better than the grey. Very cool, SO glad I was never in one (back when I lived in Illinois) AS

I'm moving to Indiana next month and they get them too. My fiancee is very blasabout it. I'll be chatting to her and the sirens will go of and she'll calmly say she's just got to nip over to the YMCA's cellar for a while. :-|

See...I would much rather die quickly in an earthquake, than wait around an hour or so in fear, while a torando stalks me...

I'd much rather not die. Knowing my luck an earthquake would just make a building fall on top of me and I'd die of thirst or something days later. Wouldn't mind seeing a twister though. Probably fantastic to look at. Maybe with those nutty twister chaser blokes. The biggest storm I've seen was in Indy. The locals thought nothing of it "just a spot of rain", but I was just staring open mouthed at the darkest, broodiest, most humid, most lightningest, storm I've ever seen. It was a clear sky and then storm clouds litterally rolled in, turned from yellow to black and then just just opened. Then 30 minutes later, it was a clear sky again. In the UK we think we have a lot of weather, but it's nothing really.

I know how you feel - some of what I consider my best work gets overlooked cuz there's no poser nudes in them :( Always get less hits and it's very disappointing. Anyway, back to this - it's abstolutely awesome - hope I never see one for real! So you going to do a tut on how you did this?? I tried a year or 2 ago but it was cr*p compared to this..... Gill

Oh cool! Very realistic, I just saw a photograph like that this week. I also like the blue one most!

Disclaimer: Ive got my two-year-old and four-year-old today so Ive got to try to be brief or itll look like a twister hit in here!!! More complete disclosures if I survive the day. 8P I was around for a couple of tornadoes during the period when I was living in Birmingham, Alabama. I was really amazed by the phenomena; how quickly the world went from day to virtual night; how eerily alien the light was, how localized the damage from the twister itself could be while the associated winds could be much less discriminating. Had a few up here in Connecticut too but the hills change the way they act The sky end up being Roobol-ized with 2D tornado planes in two separate locations over the Bryce sky - atmospheric lighting and sun on. I was working with multi-replicates of angled cylinders matted with smoke stack but when youve got four renders of Meskis barn going concurrently and you try a big multi-replicate, or even a test render of a big hunk of volume texture, things start to fall apart so I ended up cannibalizing my inspiration pic instead. (That didnt mean it was a piece of cake though.) This actually ended up being pretty involved. Ill break it all down later if anybodys really interested. One things for sure I wouldnt have been able to pull it off if I wasnt hanging out here snapping up every piece of information in the forums, from the posts, in e-discussions, and from everybodys home sites too (even the links) - I think thats the way the community is supposed to work. Thanks!

Yep... the bluish one looks more realistic than the grey. It was the better choice to submit to your gallery. I have seen plenty of them and can say that you can almost feel that twister. Nice work man. I would be interested in learning how you did this if you are willing to divulge. 8)

I have to say that is pretty awsome. I like the blueish one better as well. And I would also love to know how you did it. :)

I love that image. Definitely the bluer one. Great idea and image. I know how you made the twister. Its a boolean object with 4 billion primitives...........right??? LOL. keep up the great work

Love it...both of them...it's amazing.

Wow! Awesome picture. When I went for a visit to my mom's house in Arkansas last year, they had a big storm (OK, to those of us who come from California, anything over 1/10 of an inch of rain is a "huge storm"). Thunder, lightening, and the sky kept getting this weird bruised color. There were several twisters generated from the storm, though none close to us. Thanks, but I'll take the earthquakes and fire storms.

It's a fantastic image but I do think the darker blue does have the edge. I've never seen a 3D image look so much like real life horror before and I'm in awe of what you did with this. 8) Catlin

Still putting the full disclosure together, had to go back to complete some of the intermediate renders...

I like the second one. It just barely hints at the way the sky can turn that weird yellowish color during the calm of the storm. But I've seen the weather get that dark bluish color too. I've also had to drive through such weather a couple years back. Probably one of the most exciting trips at the leasurely pace of 30MPH because of poor visibility, strobelight like lightning, and the wind pushing and rocking the car. Not to mention there's the rapid plunking noise of BB to marble size hail that adds to one's urgency in finding a place to stop along the interstate.

Just a quick comment from a (relative) newbie (here in the forum anyway)... I prefer the second image, for all of the above mentioned reasons. And as an aside, I think I would prefer an earthquake to either a twister or a hurricane, (living in the Carribbean) . Just the thought of all that wind and/or rain scares the beejezus outta me... Darcy