Very nice!

Nice. Excellent overview. What was the final file size of the animation?

Yes. Very nice! And yes, great composition as well.

Thank you Nomer.

Sorry, I had to remove this movie. It may be in violation of intellectual property rights. It shall be replaced with another!

I remember doing a beautiful photo of a bridge in Laguna Niguel, California. I shot it with a view camera on very fine grain film and made a large print for the engineering firm I was working for. What I did not mention to anyone was that if you looked in the shadows of the bridge pier you could see a spray painted message(you needed good eyes and a magnifying glass) telling everyone what a high school cheerleader was doing for the local football team after school.

Strangely SU with Windows 7 saves skb's, I have had this issue for a while also. So I zip the .skb it saves and upload it.

thanks eric..sorry about that, i really should just start attaching things directly. robert... the process was nothing special.. it was actually rendered in maxwell 1.0 because i already had a scene setup with the lights in the windows, etc.. that plus a little fotosketcher.. with some line overlays in pshop.. plus some fake snow. quick and dirty.

@daniel said: For a golden retriever, your pretty good at modeling in SU. I'd post my photo but all would agree the dog is better looking

Those look great. I am partial to the second one, its more industrial.

That's right! I think in the future i'll model a table; that'll give me more control...it's not easy finding a good HDRI with a table just where you want it!

Please do keep working on it! Good start!

nice texturing,mood and combination

Very clean. Nice overall lighting.

@roger said: They say, the people shooting bullets are the brave ones and the people shooting film are the crazy ones. Where you a Seabee? No, but had a buddy who was. And by coincidence, he ended up as a photographer as well.

Well done. Very nice!

Ha ha ha... Well, in my city we tend to cover every single available wall with something, mostly huge paintings.

@jsteacy said: Very convincing pebbles, I assume you modeled a few then used the fur plugin to distribute them. what we're the settings you used on the fur plugin? Also it looks like (but hard to tell) you used a pebble texture underneath the modeled ones to cut down on the amount of modeled pebbles, smart, I'm curious what this would look like farther away as part of a whole house shot to see if it's still as convincing (plus I don't think many renders would be so close to the pebbles). Thanks, yes, I used three modeled pebbbles [with a slight sheen in Twilight] as the base component. There is a pebble texture underneath, as insurance, but I can barely see it. This image is about a 50% crop of the original, so the area covered wasnt extensive. Even though I only used 100 instances to a square metre the rendering time ramps up considerably as each individual pebble has to be rendered. So, generally, something like this is useful for close up shots...or maybe larger areas if you have plenty of time and a really fast computer.

Excellent images. Realizing this is just conceptual, how would you resolve getting there? What would you imagine the sea level to main level transition to be. Seems it would need to be as elegant as the structures above.

For raw SU output, I use FormFonts plant components - that is a subscription service, however, and may not be an option for you. As mentioned above, Solo and Tom have some nice plants for sale - if you will be modeling a lot, you might weant to consider investing in some. You might also look on 3D Warehouse for some plants.