Life Will Find A Way (for Jakiblue) by theSea
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Hi! Thanks for looking in.
This image started out as a riff on my good friend Jakiblue's "Impossible Defiance" image. I've really enjoyed some of the single tree images posted by Chipp Walters, Dax Pandhi and others and wanted to try my hand.
The rock is a HyperTerrain built after watching Dax's tutorial on how to build them. Hyperterrains start life as a metablob object with displacement. This can be slow to render so I baked the metablob object to polygons at the highest quality setting then decimated it to get the polycount down to something reasonable.
Materials on the rock started out as TerraPak rock. I added two layers of the rock and distributed them by altitude, then modified the lower one to make it darker and shinier - wet rock. I added a layer of foam at the dividing line and a grass layer on the level surfaces higher up. I added an ecosystem of grasses at the top as well.
The tree is a scotts pine that was heavily tweaked in the plant editor to give it some additional gnarl. I also doubled the polycount.
The ocean is a displaced water plane with the slider dragged 85% of the way to 'stormy.'
Flock of seagulls from Cornucopia3d. (No not *that* Flock of Seagulls...)
Sky is based on the 'fantasy sunset' preset with global radiosity lighting. I added the moon and adjusted it to reflect the correct relationship to the sun position.
Rendered with quality settings maxxed on final in about two and a half hours.
Compositing and some levels adjustment in photoshop.
The whole thing came out looking like a Michael Whelan painting and, as a big fan, I couldn't be more pleased. I hope you enjoy it was well.
Special thanks to Jakiblue for letting me riff on her image and thanks to everyone for their comments and postings.
Comments (28)
ThomasMacCallum
Great image - your really getting the hang of Vue it seems.
Lyndseyh
The water here is a beautiful touch - the implication to me is that the tree is untouchable whatever the weather Terrific
grafikeer
Wow...nicely done all around.Excellent light and composition,very realistic and very much a Whelan-like image!
Tholian
It always does. Very nice. Lovely composition.
PhilW
Superb - everything looks so good! Love the tranquil yet stormy feel to this, and a brilliant overall concept - love it!
Antaran
Wonderful image!
Tugpsx
Ok Dude, that's it Tutorial time. You'r getting too good at this. Love the attention to detail. Even the spray and foam from the collision of the waves. This dynamic element adds to the realism. Great job.
kftate
Fantastic image! Very beautiful work!!
anitalee
Wonderful
faroutsider
Excellent image, and a very informative description of the creative process.
IO4
Very beautiful image:):)
callad
Concept and image are beautiful :)
Seaview123
Just a fantastic landscape and image. Very well done!
SIGMAWORLD
Very nice image!
dshield
Nice one Michael. D
texboy
this is just wonderful... thanks for the hints and tips on how-to as well... and you couldn't have dedicated it to a sweeter gal....
moonbunnie
Wow beautiful!Very creative and wonderful work!
geirla
Excellent water! And sky, and rock and tree, too.
maraich
Hooo doggie! You should be pleased. Just love the backlighting and the shadows. That water is exquisite.
Realm_Of_Illusion
Really nice composition and I like that little splash, a great detail!
London224
Nice composition!!
dragonmuse
Beautiful work.. worth every minute of effort.
JCD
Incredible level of realism here...
Topaz_Rose
One of the most profoundly beautiful image I have seen for a while. I am starting to think that I should switch to vue rather than Bryce! A simple compostion yet one that provokes such thought and emotion!!
swjkie100
Very nice job with the environment! The sky's color gradient is perfect!
Orinoor
This is fantastic, simple on the surface, but the complexity you put into ti really shows in the subtle details. Absolutely wonderful!
ontar1
Fantastic scene, life will do that, outstanding work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rutra
Love it. Wonderful composition. The various elements play wonderfully together.