Treeline by hansmar
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Description
OK, so this is a render with a long sad history and not so happy end.
I started this months ago, but when rendering I saw that it would take more than 25 days. And there were bushes and trees floating in the air (I noticed after about 7 days of rendering). So I stopped and restarted. However, I first remade the trees and the bushes with less polygons to ‘speed it up’. Used instancing a lot (without too many problems). Then restarted rendering. Now, we had a power shortage for an hour or so (or longer) in the night and I did not notice. Of course, I forgot to save it just before rendering…. Restart again! Then, after another week of rendering or so: lightning strike in the neighborhood. Killed the sound of my TV and disrupted my computer as well. However, with a restart yet again it appeared to work well.
Finally able to finish the render (more than 10 days, I think) I notices (before the end) all the black and white dots. Tried to rerender parts at 256 passes, but that did not help. Conclusion: I give up on this one! The size of the file is almost 200 MB. The number of polygons is very big. I won’t do it again.
Found the deer here: http://tf3dm.com/3d-model/deer-94438.html (from Tomb Raider, it says)
Trees and bushes all made in Ngplant. Texturing and rendering (IBL, True ambience) in Bryce, of course.
Comments (5)
giulband
Realistic well done and composed !!
Cyve
Fantastic perspective and marvelous realisation/creation... Wonderfully done my friend !!!
peedy
Phew, what a patience! And what bad luck with all the outages. :-( Gorgeous image and lighting. The black dots can be small birds or so. Doesn't bother me. :-) Corrie
hansmar
Thanks. Given the luck that I had, it must have been stinging flies or something!
nefertiabet
Wonderful Scene and work!!!
blankfrancine
What a ordeal making this image must have been.Yet it is done.Cool work with ngPlant!
hansmar
I also posted this on the Bryce forum of DAZ. Slepalex is active there, and a master in full landscapes, and he told me some tricks. Part of them I knew, but did not remember well enough. Nevertheless, with his suggestions I created a companion work with much more vegetation and much less stress (and without the black spots) in 'no time' (relatively, of course). You can find it in my gallery too.