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.
Comments (6)
mandala
beautiful
AndyWelder
Thank you!
paul_gormley
well done, Terregen continues to defeat what passes for my mind :)
AndyWelder
😊
Danny_G
Nice work Andy
AndyWelder
Thank you, Danny.
MDB
Amazing detail! I wonder what it would like like with low striking sunlight 😁
AndyWelder
Tried that but the canyon turned out too dark and all details got lost.
prutzworks
lekker dikke atmosfeer
AnneCHPostma
Really need to see this one in full size to appreciate the details. Nicely done!
I would change two things (but you are moving on now so you probably won't
):
The fallen down trees in the riverbed look a little weird to me, in those opposite directions and I would put the upper clouds higher or change them to volumetric clouds, so that the bottom of those clouds would not be so straight.
But thos are minor things. The overall image is great!
AndyWelder
About the dead trees in the water : They're supposed to be carried there by a high tide... I think that if they fell from the rocks the would be positioned closer to the canyon wall. And you're absolutely right about the clouds looking 2D (though they're actually 3D...)