Cape Tribulation, Great Barrier Reef, Australia by eelnek
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Description
I made this for a recent monthly contest in the Bryce Community here. I tried as much as possible to make all the organisms accurate to the location. The Coral trout (large red and turquoise) I made by buying a coral trout from my local fish market and photographing the fish before I cooked it. In photoshop a create a greyscale of the outline of the fish and lighten and darken this appropriately to get the thickness of the fish. I used this greyscale to shape a Bryce symetrical lattice and put the photograph on it as a texture. I made the moon wrasse (2nd Biggest fish) and the little yellow fish to the right by a simmilar method, but I got the original images by photographing pictues in a book. The sea wasp (box jellyfish) and the sea weeds are simarlarly constructed except I 'drew' the images in photoshop & Illustrator. The water ripples are a a terrain shaped using Kai's power tools texture explorer. The shadows were made by placing a semi transparent 2D plane of black areas just above the water. The foreground is a photomontage of my own old scanned photographs.- Ken
Comments (5)
vjerana
Very beautiful colorful image. Excellent work!!!!
sackrat
Outstanding ! So,.........how was the fish ?
evilsean
mmm...good but.."but" needs reflected and refracted light thru the water...try putting a lightsource with no falloff above the waters surface to give a rippled effect and reduce the transparancy of the water your scene is contained in,,,what?..no water volume ..tsk :) contain the scene in a volume of water and fiddle about for a while..i hope this helps ...because otherwise its very good. im having similar probs with mine;) its always the atmosphere in a scene like this that makes or breaks it and a little tinkering with the deep texture editor will bring much joy...keep up the good work and feel free to message me
Digidoodle
Beautiful work, nice job on the corals and fish. I love the colors and how real you made everything look.
Digimon
A lot of work to be sure! Nice image!!