Tropical Waters by midkay
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Description
Behold my latest seascape! It's getting a bit harder to come up with ideas for these. :) I'll have to switch topics soon.. but I came up with this and decided it was worth posting. I knew I wanted to create something brighter than the last couple, around midday, with a tropical/light-blue look to it, smaller, narrower waves, and smoother edges. Well, here it is. :) Oh, and an animation should be posted soon...
After getting it close enough colorwise in 3dsmax, I took it into PS for some post; darkening the sea a bit and lightening up the sky. For this I wanted it to look real, yet a bit fantasylike (veeeery odd combination, yes). :) The sun is mostly PS - there's a small bit of lens flare, but I kept it to a minimum; in way too many cg images there are huge, bright, dominant lens flares - which usually really bugs me. Also a bit of orangish fog was added in PS, that's about it. Comments/crit welcome, as always.
3dsmax 7.5; Dreamscape 2.5; Photoshop for color correction. Creation time: few hours; render time: couple hours (massive amounts of render samples/steps; fake GI; 2048x1536 output).
Comments (2)
Blue_Spawn
Great stuff! I don't know how to do waves in Max yet, though I've learned how to make them in Bryce. Good job on this one as well as the others, however, I think your seascapes could use a nice landscape in the background :)
midkay
Thank you. :) I've attempted some landscapes, and trust me... the image is better off without them. ;) The waves are generated via the Dreamscape plugin based on some defined parameters, but it's also fun using Displace on a plane with lots of segments using a Noise, Waves or Smoke map...