Gushing Falls by alvinylaya

Bryce • (none) • posted on Jan 20, 2003

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With all the excellent works you guys have posted the past couple of weeks, I decided to study Brycean trees. At the same time I decided to study waterfalls, a subject that has been done to death, but Iv'e never tried it before. Iv'e seen a number of tutorials on waterfalls but not exactly what I wanted. I wanted a more gushing whitewater look. I'm not quite satisfied with this but I finally got tired of tweaking it and decided to just post it. Thanks for viewing. =) Thanks so much for the kind comments guys. This was made using the traditional way with terrains. I just put a little angle. Of course I made multiple waterfalls to create the effect. Lastly, blurring it with Photoshop since Bryce doesn't have motion blurs. That's it. Just add your own artistic touch and have fun. Only advice I can give is while postworking with Photoshop, have a photo of a waterfall handy as reference so you'll know how close you are getting. Weeds are from www.3dplants.com. Everything else is Bryce. Postwork in Photoshop especailly on the waterfalls.

Comments (33)

imanwillie

5:11PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

this is excellent Alvin; the falls look superb and are framed wonderfully by the rest of your composition. this is consistent with your other great images ;-)

ocddoug

5:35PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

Wow, this is quite the masterpiece!! Killer trees, falls, rocks, lighting...in other words, everything :-)

peterbron

5:36PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

DON'T TOUTCH THE WATERFALLS! They are great! And that wet stone in the middle is awesome! I would add some more plants near the waterfalls. But great pic man, very good job!

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woodhurst

5:51PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

wow! The effects on the waterfall are perfect. keep upo the excellent work!

Kantele

5:53PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

thats really nice;) one idea came to me.... i think once you learn all about waterfalls it would be really nice of you to make small tutorial for us:) just an idea

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Doublecrash

5:54PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

Alvin, you achieved a great realism in this one. The wet shade on the rocks is awesome, and I personally like a lot also the waterfall effect (so: are you sure you want to "tweak" it further? :-)) -- plus the trees, the grass, the blur on the trees above. All makes for another excellent job. It's always a pleasure to see your works.

SherlockHolmes

5:55PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

this is awesome! The textures are realistic and the water is so damn real. Great work!

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CarloTraversi

5:59PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

I think you "must" be satisfied.... :o))) It's very hard to create a realistic waterfall, but you made an excellent work (perhaps more sprinkling of water all around)... Blur effects, DOF, water, grass and trees... Everything is perfect and believable. Congrats. :o)

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Kholdfyre

6:15PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

No more tweaking necessary on this waterfall. Ultimate realism achieved! The whole scene is absolutely incredible. Wonderful work!!!

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webmaster421

6:24PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

"not quite satisfied"? It's amazing work! Beautiful and stunning!

reverbdesign

6:45PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

This is really beautiful. Good falls in Bryce are impossible in my opinion so I hope you'll share your secret. Really lovely work.

TrAnd

7:04PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

Awesome work. Really beautiful pic.

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lemonjim

7:19PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

i've never seen a better bryce waterfall up close. last week i was admiring a photo "swallow falls" by marcfx, (www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=292817) and you are very close! love to hear how you accomplished it!

Free2Dream

10:18PM | Mon, 20 January 2003

This is DA BEST waterfall seen by me!! LUV ur work. care to share wht u did and how u did?? i m only a biginner u c!

Kylara

1:14AM | Tue, 21 January 2003

Oh come on.. stop making beautiful pictures like this.. You making me more and more jealous. Absolutely the best waterfall I've ever seen in Bryce.

legobrick

3:05AM | Tue, 21 January 2003

Alvin- a great pic your studing has paid off. Brillaint tree. Your water fall is brillant - yes I have one comment about it, althou I have no idea how to solve it; the watterfall has the same leval of detail and brightness from top to bottom, but the cliff face changes ever so slightly in focus and detail.

kennyliu

3:09AM | Tue, 21 January 2003

Very cool!! Nice blurring effect

garyandcatherine

8:20AM | Tue, 21 January 2003

Excellent!. Looks like a lot of hard work, expecially on the waterfalls.

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MRX3010

10:47AM | Tue, 21 January 2003

This is your first waterfall! Wow I wish my first falls looked like that lol. Water falls are among the trickiest element in Bryce it's really hard to get it right but you did just that. Well done!

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