Sunburst by MikeJ
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Description
This began as a picture for this months' Vue Challenge, which was to make an "Alien Summer" picture, but I got seriously sidetracked and ended up experimenting with lighting and trying to get a realistic sunrise/sunset.
Comments (21)
Sacred Rose
This is SUPERB!!!! How did u get the tyre tracks on the front terrain? I love the sky, the mood, everything!!!!! Where's those tutes you were supposed to write huh?
dolly
yer im with rose this is superb mike the whole thing has a sence of danger band beautey
GrayCloudDesign
Very beautiful scene!!!
ronmolina
Excellent Mike!
MrWyatt
Woweee. You really have the feeling for atmosphere and mood. Verrrrry nice one. ;)
Kebbelchen
wow, awesome work... great reflections, textures and lights! ~{o;)
mindaiste
It makes me think of the 18th-19th century american nature paintings. It is really beautiful, especially the background area.
Calseeor
And once again, Mike shows the rest of us how to use this program! This image is amazing!
henriqueaguiar
WOW!...Amazing work, my friend!Riko.
bonbon
yup its gorgeous and nobody can argue that,lol i love the mood that you created fabulously done !!!!
aprilgem
Lovely work -- the best Vue landscape I've seen, and one of the best in all of 3D. I had no idea Vue was capable of such a scene.
Varian
Simply stunning, Mike! Are you sure you didn't use version 4 somehow? :)
MikeJ
I had no idea that this would be received so well, so thanks for the nice comments, everyone! :)
As for the "tire tracks", that's simply me playing around with the various bump scales and amplitudes, gain, etc... The "sun" is not really a sun, but a series of spheres with carefully placed piont and spot lights. It seems to be the very small amount of haze, combined with the camera focal length (50 mm, I think) which gives it the "depth".
There was also a great amount of ambient light in this, and very little "sunlight". Naturally that caused everything else in the scene to be WAAAAY too bright, so I edited all the materials' diffuse lighting way down (as low as 15% for the terrains), while keeping each material's ambient lighting at about 40%--- seemed to create a good balance.
Last but not least, I rendered 4 separate versions of this with various stages of lighting and slightly different skies and blended them together with Painter 6, using customized clone brushes set to a very low opacity. So, I can almost honestly say this IS "pure Vue 3", since I didn't do any editing of the clone sources at all, and I did no "painting" or color fixing either. Thanks again, all!
TVartDude
bad ass
JMFx33
Wow...this is just plain gorgeous!
Ken _Gilliland
great lighting!
Markus
GREAT! I love it!
Ona
Coooool!
Stormi
Love the colors!!! Beautiful render!
RadArt
This is super Mike, as all your work is! ;-)
Orio
Hey Mike I didn't know you have such GREAT Vue images!! You never post any link to the mailing list - you really should! Else many of us at the list would miss out your pictures!