Desolation by theSea

Vue • Landscape • posted on Apr 09, 2010

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Hello-- it's been a while! Lately, I've been finding myself completely uninspired and unhappy with what little work I've managed to begin. Last time this happened I managed to claw my way out with some landscape work. Let's see how this goes... "Desolation" came about because of a tutorial Dax Pandhi came out with for combining the terrain features of Vue with the erosion modeling in World Machine. This is pretty much a straight up technique study from that tutorial. Without giving too much away.. I created a procedural rock strata terrain in Vue, tweaked it to my liking and exported as a high res .tga height map. In World Machine I imported the height map and ran an erosion node over it. I went pretty heavy on the weathering and the actual 'build' took well over an hour, but I found the results to be pretty impressive. Then I exported the result along with a flow map. I brought these back into Vue and used the flow map to control the distribution of the sand and rock. I added an ecosystem of pebbles to the sandy areas to give some texture. If you want to know more, I definitely recommend the Quadspinner/Dax Pandhi tutorials available at E-On and Cornucopia. He's really helped me up my game in Vue! Vue 8.5 render with global radiosity lighting. Rock material from the Quadspinner 'Mineral Infinity' collection. As I said, this is a technique study that I thought I'd share. You comments and critique are always most welcome.

Comments (20)

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jakiblue

8:05AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

i've really missed seeing your renders lately. :( This one is - as always - beautiful.

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vidyashakti

8:13AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Ditto jakiblue. Where have you been? BRILLIANT piece!

DancingCat

9:30AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Thanks (again!) for the informative description of how it's done. It's a nice picture and the explanation really helps me appreciate what I'm looking at.

Kattey

10:16AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

It is a natural-looking landscape :) Keep on doing nice pictures :)

Lyndseyh

10:35AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Amazing lighting

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ArtistKimberly

10:51AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

~Gorgeous~

Tugpsx

11:58AM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Very nice, and thanks for quick tips

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A.C.Wolfe

2:21PM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Very cool render

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scifibabe

7:09PM | Fri, 09 April 2010

Oh yeah this is cool. Great lighting and landsccape. Very nice scene.

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DireWolf3

1:22AM | Sat, 10 April 2010

Looks very good, and thanks for the description of how its done!

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dragonmuse

12:09PM | Sat, 10 April 2010

Rea read the steps and study the image closely.. full size is a definite must.

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arcas

8:15PM | Sat, 10 April 2010

This looks like it needs a Jupiter II streaking through the sky.

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kobaltkween

6:07AM | Sun, 11 April 2010

it's always great to see your posts, but even better to read about your process. after reading, i had to look at the full size version again. i think the hard work paid off well. some of the rocks in the mid-ground seem kind of smoothly structured, but overall the effect is marvelous. i wish i could speak more intelligently about landscapes like this, but i like the drama of the shapes and the various textures. i think the only improvement i could imagine would be more layering and variation with the texture of the rock and sand.

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