Clearing Storm by HowieFarkes
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Description
The first snow storm of autumn heads away up the valley leaving the peaks dusted white to shine brilliantly in the sun.
Carrara got about halfway through rendering this scene before running out of memory. Fortunately it did the top-half first and this is the result (still an okay pic). I'm gonna have to add some more cameras and render it in tiles. Still, it was doing well to get as far as it did. There are extactly 71,730 fir trees in this scene and every single one of those fir trees has full geometry - every single needle is a polygon and I couldn't guess how many needles there are per tree. Just look at those close ones to get an idea. I think the results are pretty spectacular.
The terrain was generated in WorldMachine.
The trees are a heavily modified version of the Carrara fir tree.
The terrain shader was modified from a Carrara preset too.
Enjoy.
Comments (19)
Dennis445
Nice looking pic, reminds me of B.C.
PsychoNaut
I agree this is spectacular, and shows that Carrara can do some awesome work when used well.
gerberc
Beautiful image! I'm impressed with the number of trees, hope you manage to render the whole thing as you originally intended!
Odessey
Major usage of Carrara's replicator abillities!
blinkings
Great stuff.
Mondwin
Fantastic and super work!!!!!!!!!!!bravissimo!V:DDD.HUgsxx
sackrat
Outstanding !!
MarkBremmer
Nice Howie. Try doing a batch render instead of a standard render to preserver memory.
Thelby
A Totally stunning and magnificent render!!!!!!!!!
Gog
Awesome pic, almost photo real.
Patrick_210
Great job! Have you looked at GeoControl?
mmoir
Awesome job on this image.
dlk30341
Well done :)
HowieFarkes
@Patrick_210 - Unfortunately perhaps for me I bought my WorldMachine license about 2 weeks before GeoControl was announced, and I can't (yet) justify owning two terrain generators for the limited number of a landscapes I do with them. @MarkBremmer - I was using the batch render :(. I don't know if it's a memory leak or something else. The RAM usage just continues to climb during the render. I can get around it by duplicating the main camera 4 times then adjusting the production frame so each camera renders 1/4 of the scene. Then I batch it up again and finally recompose the 4 pics in Photoshop. @Everyone - Thankyou for the kind comments
Ulv
Wow! Always believed Carrara can give both Terragen and Vue a run for their money! Excellent!
danamo
Reminds me of the Cascade mountains near where I live! You've done a terrific job on this and your firs are the best I've seen in Carrara.
lewis_moorcroft
Wonderful pano, the trees are very impressive :)
UVDan
Unbelievable! Five stars, three cheers, and two thumbs up! Stand tall and be proud!
Gary_P
Very nice indeed!