Kingdom of sand by jpetro
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Description
A fantasy scene. All made with Bryce 5. The sand 'dunes' were covered with an exact copy (positioned a bit higher than the original) with the following material: ambience 0, diffusion 0, bump 0, specularity 5 %, transparency 100 %, refraction 105. The plants are trees with the trunk buried below the ground. Only 2 leaves with a scale of 9.
Comments (7)
pakled
very nice.
zescanner
interesting image. Looks dusty and dry. Thanx for your explanation of what you did with the sand, but my question is WHY? What is the visual effect that happens as a result of doing that? I guess I should go try it out myself and see what difference it makes.
Blue_Spawn
Good sand efect, however, sand isn't usually reflective :-)
zana112
I would like to see more explanations posted with art work, it helps me learn and it can't harm. Who can just jump in 3D C.G with out help. I think your image is great and the explanation to. Thanks.
jpetro
Thanks for Your comments, all of them. To zescanner: the sand looked boring and unreal with a normal sand texture, and I wanted a more glittering look to it. To Blue_Spawn: You are right, but I wanted to make a different kind of sand -- perhaps the refraction thing was not necessary after all.
jpetro
It's me again.. I just looked at an earlier version of the image, and noticed that the sand was not so bad without the refraction. Perhaps I will make a few more experiments with this.
drugdoc
Cool, like how you did the dunes! :-)