Landfall by theSea
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Hi, Thanks for looking in!
"Landfall" was rendered in Vue 10.5 and took about 40 hours to render at 1920x720, mostly because of the lovely Quadspinner clouds.
The ship is the amazing 'Medusa' by Faveral, available at DAZ. It is a very high poly model and a lot of my initial test work was done with a decimated version of the mesh, but decimating it breaks most of the wonderful rigging so I substituted the full version back into the scene before final. I also made sure to add some strong backlighting to the sail materials, and to a lesser extent the ropes.
The sky started out as a Quadspinner preset (I don't remember which one) but I tweaked the cloud coverage and density a lot to get the cloud line and godrays I wanted. Global radiosity lighting with a soft sunlight and strong atmospherics.
Render settings included 'soft' anti-aliasing, which lets you drop the quality of the atmosphere a bit without introducing a lot of noise... otherwise the render time on this would have been a lot longer. As it stands, thank goodness for 'resume render.'
I did some levels adjustment in post and I also used the 'g-buffer' feature in Vue to render out a mask of the water surface so I could do a color/saturation adjustment on the water (it looked too blue).
All-in-all a pleasant little project. The ability to create images like this is why I *love* Vue, despite all its little quirks and problems. Note that in Vue 10 & 10.5 you simply cannot save out the Z-buffer, Alpha or G-buffer images unless the render is *in* the render stack. *&$&%.
Thanks again for looking and reading, I would appreciate any constructive critique you would care to post.
Comments (17)
texboy
looks great! but the ship appears to be unmanned... a couple of jolly jack tars in the rigging and at the rail would really sweeten things up....
London224
Nicely done...sitting in the water very realistically
teecee2107
very nice peaceful image.
colvin
Very nice! I like the sunlight coming through the sails and the water has a nice glow to it! 5++
0rest4wicked
Atmosphere, BG, and land mass all look great! Would love to be able to create such scenes, but alas I'm just a photographer!
Quasarman
This looks great!
PhilW
40 hours seems excessive but it does look wonderful - the sea in particular looks terrific (how appropriate!)
saphira1998
cool
Sensei76
Great to have you back after a few months of absence. :-) Your picture reminds me of one of my own renders from about three years ago. Ignoring that it has a 4:3 ratio, it has almost identical composition. It's only... mine looks sooo much amateur next to yours... Seriously, the light & shadows on the sails looks really great and the image looks so real, like it could be s still from the next pirate movie. Also, I like your eye for details like the birds.
justinpress
Very Nice!
jakiblue
where are the pirates?? grin this is just wonderful, the water looks amazing! (i nearly said "the sea looks amazing" but thought that could be misconstrued...heh) Love the addition of the birds, really adds to the whole overall effect.
geirla
Excellent lighting and sea!
dshield
Great work Michael. D
faroutsider
Perfect composition and lighting. I love the Quadspinner clouds, but they do require a LOT of patience...
ArtistKimberly
Beautiful Image,
anitalee
Excellent
kobaltkween
I definitely share your admiration of Vue's skies and atmospheres. I've been looking into Blender's ability to do landscapes, and as far as I can tell, the main thing it's missing compared to Vue is those incredible skies. I think you used them subtly here. There are crepuscular rays, but not so many and so strong that they dominate the scene. I like the balance of the ship in the left foreground and the hills in the right background. The water looks very blue for that sky, which I think gives it excellent contrast with the sky's yellows and oranges.