Fata Morgana Closeup :-) by Xlars

Terragen • Science Fiction • posted on Apr 20, 2003

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This was, my contribution to the TerraCon "Dry Earth" contest. This picture was made with Terragen, no postwork (except sharpen/gamma .. and now after the contest I fixed a shadow error and added my signature). Image was placed 8th of 61 and recieved MO award. Thank you for the votes :-) And also a thank you to Vraxor at TerraCon for having arranged these competitions in the past. Sad that TerraCon contest is now ending but as Vraxor says, then there still is the TerraWorlds. Comments are welcome

Comments (26)

Xabre

8:29AM | Sun, 20 April 2003

how? do? you? get this terrain & surface managed? very impressive

Cyphixx

8:58AM | Sun, 20 April 2003

Agree with Xabre! The terrain is awesome, so is the surface!!! :)

christianfly

9:48AM | Sun, 20 April 2003

It reminds me some holes around volcanos, with a sulfuric atmosphere! Wonderful work.

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MDB

10:04AM | Sun, 20 April 2003

I remember this was one of my top3 favourites ;-)

eponce

11:58AM | Sun, 20 April 2003

wooow!! cool terrain and surface!! =) congrats!!

gab-mag

12:03PM | Sun, 20 April 2003

Impressive, outstanding work: I'm amazed!!! :-)

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Ianfe

1:52PM | Sun, 20 April 2003

Love the gritty, thirsty feeling of this texture. Congrats.

HeikoH

3:16PM | Sun, 20 April 2003

And it is really dry! I remember this pic and it is a wonderful one.

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redawg2

3:17PM | Sun, 20 April 2003

Great pic!

ISSE

11:55PM | Sun, 20 April 2003

This was my favourite,liked the sand and bone too much,you done it excellent

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Xlars

3:33AM | Mon, 21 April 2003

@Xabre: Thanks David. Well terrain is a heavely modified dem file (edited and changed with TG editing tools) and PhotoShop. The bone is handmade and resized/positionend with PhotoShop. Texture is 6 differnt overlays mixed with standard TG texture layers (using SO pack, mainly SDV additive overlays), the bone is colored using SO with a mask.
@Cyphixx: Thank you Michael!
@christianfly: Ah .. yes I know what you refer to. So glad you like it Christian:-)
@MDB: Wow, I am honored. Thanks Michel!
@eponce: Thank you very much Ezequel.
@gab-mag: Oh, thanks Gabriele!
@Ianfe: ha ha .. "gritty, thristy feeling" is just what I was aiming for. Thanks Ian :-)
@HeikoH: Just what I like to hear, Thanks :-) and you even remember the picture from the contest.
@redawg: Thank you Terry.
@ISSE: I am very honored that this was your favorite, Thank you Ismail.

Golog

4:36AM | Mon, 21 April 2003

Excellent work on both terrain and texturing. The bone looks great and add really something to the scene, but what was the poor creature who died here? ;)

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Xlars

4:48AM | Mon, 21 April 2003

@Golog: Ha ha .. thanks! Well, first estimates indicated that this was a human that died of thirst here. But recent investigations shows that the bone might stem from a very big boned early ape-human-like creature ;-)

arthez

1:49AM | Tue, 22 April 2003

no doubt - it's a true Xlars pic - excellent idea and finishing - it's good for 'rosity you are back

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Xlars

5:41PM | Tue, 22 April 2003

@arthez: big smile .. thank you so much Fred.

ChadAustin

3:21AM | Sun, 27 April 2003

So much wonderful texture..I see a lot of emotion and power in your recent work. It's quite different.

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Xlars

3:44AM | Sun, 27 April 2003

@ChadAustin: Thank you so much Chad, I am happy about your observation and for making me aware of it. The changes in my life probably effects my images more than I was aware of.

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SophiaDeer

5:32PM | Sun, 27 April 2003

Beautiful work!! Excellent!!

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XR666

7:11AM | Sat, 03 May 2003

the stones looking a bit wet, i also like the well done bone

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EoinArmstrong

8:42AM | Mon, 01 December 2003

Excellent pov and surface - that bone is an amazing addition!

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joshus_hund

7:03AM | Thu, 04 December 2003

Surface! Yes it's the surface - it's perfect. And perfectly dry imho (see XR666). The bone rounds it up perfectly and tells us once more, here it must be very dry!

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Xlars

2:40PM | Fri, 05 December 2003

@Sophia: Thanks
@XR: You are right, it was raining, but now it stopped, but now its getting dry (i hope). Glad you like the TG-bone :-)
@Eoin: Thanks. The bone is actually just a special formed rock, and not an addition in that sense. Glad you like it :-)
@Jens: Oh thanks for your warming words on that on the surface .. and the bone.

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