The Mountains of Madness by theSea
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Hi, thanks for popping by...
Continuing to apply the knowledge gleaned from the Quadspinner tutorials.
I had originally conceived this as another long horizontal piece. But after my 'final' render on that, I felt that the composition was not working, so I decided to re-do it as a vertical or 'portrait' orientation piece. I spent more than a little time trying to move my camera, landscape elements etc. to accomodate the new arrangement.
Ulitmately I scrapped the whole thing and re-built the scene from scratch, keeping some of the older elements and adding some new ideas. I think the piece is much stronger for the change and rework. Sometimes the second draft is much better.
Rendered in Vue 7.5i with a global radiosity atmosphere. One infinite procedural terrain and 1 procedural terrain for the BG mountains. Castle and PinusMugo trees from Cornucopia.
The render was 1200x800px at 'Superior' quality settings. Lighting Quality +4, Atmosphere Quality +5. Render time ~8 hours.
As always, your comments and critique are welcome and appreciated.
Comments (43)
ragouc
Very good light and texture. Great landscape. 5+++
Lyndseyh
SUPERB - I absolutely love this - would make a great cover for a fantasy novel or a poster
phil01
Excellenr work
Brian S.
Looks great!
PhilW
Superb design and realism - a super image!
DarkStormCrow
Excellent work, excellent light, well done...
TomDart
However you did it..this is fine work.
Shalimar-Cherie
Wonderful Light /Shadow Mood play in the Scene .
Seaview123
Really excellent image! Great work!
Rainastorm
Super awesome....excellent work!
jrdesigns
Excellent render, love the vertical format.
allisonbender
Excellent composition ... The light play is superb!!! Tom
thecytron
Awesome rendering! Xcellent illumination FX! Great presentation!
JCD
Wow, this is a killer image - the terrain detail and sunlight are just spot on!
arcas
"It's only a model..." "SHHHHHH!!!!" Cool! Great light and detail and I love the overall sense of jagginess.
ThomasMacCallum
Superb crisp light, a realistic and very pleasing image - So with your Vue work going so well I wonder if you will still use DS?
Kattey
Sunny day in Angmar :) If render times were smaller, I would seriously think to go with Vue but....
SeraphimZion
Awesome application of the tutorials!
jclP
Really excellent image! Great work!
elfguy
Nice landscape!
alx
Wow! Great!!
infinityrain
Amazing...it looks so much more like a photograph than a render. Really awesome job
Svenart
cool work, I like it:)
kftate
Gorgeous! Very realistic and beautiful work!!
chasfh
Absolutely amazing!!
elfin12u
This is just incredibly awesome work!!!! WOW!
DOM1
Excellent work.
drifterlee
Gorgeous scene!
shotgung0d
That looks insanely realistic! Fantastic work!
geirla
The lighting is excellent! Great terrain and scene!