Winter Tracks by Xlars
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Description
Terragen, no postwork (except sharpen/gamma).
This was my entry to the TerraCon "Snow" contest. It was placed 11 of 66. Thank you for the 5 votes for second place and 3 for most original picture :-) I am NOT satisfied with the animal tracks (too rough). The idea was to make Bear tracks, but this was difficult (without postwork :). Also I wanted some blod to make it more dramatic, but I can see that I should have used overlay distribution instead of just hight based blod-color. Learning all the time ;-) Terrain is a combination of homemade "DEM file" (from at photo of car tracks), World Machine and hand edited terrain.
Comments are welcome
Comments (33)
Golog
Where do you find all those great ideas?! Snow is very good and I like this strange terrain and pov. The tracks are good enough to understand what they are without any explanation :) Excellent work!
hillrunner
Very nicely done and original pic ! There is a little problem with scale... but nothing important !
Linochette
this picture is so funny :) feel like Reinhold Messner searching for the Yeti ;)
christianfly
They are certainly ENORMOUS bears!! Never mind, this is a really wonderful pic, and an awesome terrain.
HeikoH
Agree with Linochette. This was my first idea too. Excellent!
eponce
excellent terrain and very originial one! one of your best! for me Most Original in Terracon "snow" contest! Congrats + vote!
SoundChaser
What a great pic, I love the footprints (even if they are a bit rough) and besides these obvious eye-catchers the surfaces are amazing as well!
ChiaAnge
...the bear abruptly woke from his sleep. "What was that?" he exclaimed. "Spring already? Good! I must go check." The bear rose from his bed and knew, from the beautiful sunlight streaming into his cave, that it was a glorious day outside. Anxious to see the lovely rocks and mountains, he scurried from the cave, in an unnatural fit of cabin fever. "What? MORE snow?!?! I thought the sounds of spring woke me but it was... OWWWWWWWWWWWWUCH!!!!," the bear yelled in agony. The poor animal had cut his foot on a sharp spire of rock. "Nobody said these pictures were real," the bear grumbled. "They just make them too darn well. Oh, bother! I'm bleeding! I will go home and clean my foot but, this time, I'll walk around!"
falconperigot
This is a wonderful terrain. Very bleak. I think the tracks work well. The blood maybe would show better if you colored and reduced reflection of the water?
garcia
Excellent work on the terrain,looks like the legend of Bigfoot lives on!
Dotthy
It is EXCELLENT+++
Margit1
Wonderful work and great idea! Terrain and surface are excellent!!
Xabre
wow, this is too kewl, sorry I am late ;))
prutzworks
this are not bear tracks but yeti sthuff
MDB
I love the view, as said before ;-)
dominus_ignis
hi, hey patters on the snow good idea and i like the terrain you make a great job, bye. :. - ) :.
Xlars
Thank you all so much for your positive comments, suggestions, funny comments, associations, stories, vote and ratings. I appreciate it very much :-)
RuthCostello
You are to hard on yourself. The tacks are great. we all knew what they were. Great work!!!Terrain excellent also
ChadAustin
This is wonderful. You are so creative with all the different techniques fused togather.
ISSE
I also wanted to do footprints like this one,Couldt,You done it excellent,I clap you.
SophiaDeer
Beautiful work! Breathtaking!!
DrOGaN
what a cool idea; bloody footsteps in the snow! interresting and EXCELLENT!!
lucbianco
Really fun picture, excellent render
danob
A Super image and concept the tracks add drama and may be a Yeti!! Maybe postwork is not for the purist but so little cannot be a bad thing!
Xlars
Thanks again, you are very kind - and I am honored by these positive comments from all you great artists. @danob: Thanks now I understand what you mean - should have used a little postwork here after competition to get things as I wanted them. Why did I not think of that. You are so right :-)
Cyphixx
Totally agree with luc... Funny and original and wonderful and excellent!
gab-mag
I agree too: excellent idea, great render! :-)
Xlars
Your comments mean a lot to me! thank you
EoinArmstrong
Superb pov and again great creativity!
joshus_hund
Great idea! Your images show a big range of wonderful ideas. And this is very funny, imaginative. And the terrain is cool, the lightning... I'm looking forward to your next post!