The Old Trees by BountifulKnight
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Description
These old trees came to life from a couple of ideas I wanted to try out.
First, I wanted to see if I could make a decent tree trunk from a terrain map created in Photoshop. In five trys, I wound up with two good pics to use as terrain maps; one for the hollow stump and one for the tree trunks. I'll let you in on a secret: The tree trunks don't extend much farther than the top of the image. above that is a set of cherry trees to make the shading for the scene.
Second, I wanted to work with some of the brushes in Photoshop to create some ground coverage elements. In this case, the leaves on and under the water.
Creating the elements proved to be the easy part. Texturing them was the hard part. The trees are an altered version of the "Dead tree" texture with a very complex mix on the hollow stump.
The turtle is from the standard Vue install.
Vue 4 on a Mac; No postwork.
Comments and suggestions always welcome.
Comments (14)
pmermino
Very interesting technique....the result is quiet beautiful ... thank you for sharing your ideas ...
Richard T
This looks great, especially the tree stumps. I like this picture.
adm5050
really appreciate the sharing of your testing and ideas. The trunks are also very good.
lingrif
An experiment well done. Great scene
dragonfly2000
Nice bit of work - gives one ideas.
Polax
Most creative use of Vue's terrains ! The water with dead leaves is excellent!
IQ200
Great angle camera. Water details and leaves is absolutely superb!
beetle-car
Great job! Thanks for sharing!
zxcvb
Excellent idea and image , very well done:-)
madasatadpole
great ideas george the more you experiment and understand things the better you become this is great stuff way to go...excellent work
bigbraader
Looks great. I know this is tricky, but I think you should work a little more on the greyscale levels of the bitmap, to get more "flat" roots. Nice work as is.
Djeser
Nice one, like the texturing on the stumps.
timefighter
Hey George this is a beauty!! The water is especially great. Have a Very Merry Christmas.
sacada
Great idea and very effective. The leaves look great in the water as well. Terrific image.