Hi,
My real name is Andy Wachelder but because I learned that this is hard to pronounce for the non-dutch my handle is AndyWelder
Born 1954 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, a couple of hundred metres from the Northsea.
Nowadays I live in Eindhoven, with my girl friend, my two sons, eight cats and a dog.
I'm a scifi addict; favourite writers are Larry Niven, Jack Vance, Frank Herbert and Carl Lans. (you've probably never heard of that last one: he's Dutch and a lot of his stories are situated in my place of birth.) Besides that I like art: paintings, sculptures, architecture, books, textiles, furniture etc. Other fields of interest are geology, biology (Yes I do watch Discovery/National Geography Channel a lot :-)), bonsai and of course computers.
I'm working as an Assistent System Administrator (what a job title..) now but before that I was interior builder, exhibition builder and it al started with being a cabinet maker.
In the early 70's I started painting, oil on board, most of the time scifi landscapes with a touch of surrealism. When I started working as an exhibition builder in 1990 this stopped because of the lack of time.
Because of a damaged backspine and joint problems I had to quit the exhibition building and started as an interior builder in 1995. Around the same time the first PC made his entry, a 386 with a whopping 48 MB harddrive. One thing led to another and in 1999 this proud owner of a P350 discovered Terragen and got hooked.
The inspiration for my Terragen landscapes I get from everywhere: the many travelling I did while working as an international exhibition builder, the daily walks with our dog, seashells, bits of rock or bark, stories I read and documentaries I watch.
Most of my TG renders are realistic, except for a few excursions in the realm of scifi and fantasy, and I don't mind the fact that it's not possible to render plants or creatures with the current version of TG.
Postwork is not my thing, my postwork sucks, so I let Terragen do the talking; nevertheless I admire what some people can do with TG and postwork.
Because of the somewhat limited terrain building possibilities of TG I use more versatile programs like WorldMachine, TerraFormer and GeoControl to create my terrains. But when it comes to dressing up terrains I find Terragen is unbeatable.
As I mentioned, I'm born near the sea and I'm Dutch, that's why water is a part of most of my images and so is the colour green. Those grand dutch skies however, well, Terragen is not capable of rendering multiple cloud layers and that's why I just muddle along with what TG offers. But the new Terragen, TG2TP, is much promising except for the extreme long render times and the awfully dull water. Planetside is working on that so I'll be patient.
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Comments (19)
Naoo
extremely realistic
bebopdlx
Very well done.
masonspappy
Top Shelf realism. The seeming randomness of plant populations really heightens that affect
peedy
Beautiful, Andy! Gorgeous lighting. Lang geleden heb ik daar ook gewoond en ik kan het me nog goed herinneren. :-) Corrie
0rest4wicked
Great looking country side!
X-PaX
Very nice scene Andy.
evielouise
wow beautiful!~
starfire777
Very beautiful scene!!!
Danny_G
Great depth, very natural looking
teecee2107
Excellent realistic scene !
npauling
An outstanding scene you have created here with a super realistic look and feel. No wonder you are thinking of home when it looks like this.
Drakkendark
Wow. Great work!
ia-du-lin
very realistic scene, great colors
fallen21
Awesome work.
Dotthy
Fantastic Landscape Andy!!!!! When I think about, the south of Limburg was also my homeland in my childhood. Thank you for sharing ;-)
Markal
Wow, Andy has a style....and it is an excellent style. I'm happy for you man!!!
penboack
Excellent composition. The plants look very realistic. Beautiful.
pclavett
Lovely mix of vegetation Andy ! Perfect !
THEmark
Excellent work. Where can we get or hands on Walley's plant pack? Tried google searching for hours...