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    • CarlohC Offline
      Carloh
      last edited by

      once again stunningly good...how did you make the grass?

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      • DanielD Offline
        Daniel
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        Nice photograph, David.

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          davidh
          last edited by

          The grass was done using the instancing tool in Thea and brushed around the landscape.The post produced images have additional supplemental grass added in photoshop.

          Here are 2 more images,the first from a different vantage point and the second a crop of the first showing the detail at 1:1 scale as the image was reduced in size for the forum.
          The light in the first image was accentuated on the left of middle ground to suggest rays of light coming from the low sun.


          tropical view 03 small.jpg


          tropical view 04 crop.jpg

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              Roger
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              Where is it? I am on my way to buy the ticket now.

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                Mistro11
                last edited by

                Very beautiful. I usually paint landscapes. I am gearing up to do my first 3D lanscape and this scene is very inspirational. Can you tell where you got those palm trees please? And can you give me advise on how to incorporate a natural background. I'm using Kerkythea right now but I plan on buying Thea really soon. Thanks.

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                  Cyberdactyl
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                  @unknownuser said:

                  Remember the landscapes of Ernst Haeckel 😄

                  You nailed it.

                  Great work david.

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                    davidh
                    last edited by

                    One more view with more colour saturation than the last couple.


                    tropical view 05.jpg

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                      davidh
                      last edited by

                      A dusk shot,again rendered in Thea and post proccessed in photoshop.

                      [EDIT]
                      I have also attached a cropped version with some slightly different colour tones(more purples and reds) but also a more rectangular proportion which I think works better for this image.The second image is also less grainy as it was from a thea render that was allowed to render for longer,thereby reducing the amount of grain in the image.


                      tropical dusk 02 SMALL.jpg


                      tropical DUSK 004 CROP.jpg

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                        davidh
                        last edited by

                        One more with some saturated colours and quite a high contrast


                        TROPICAL DUSK LIGHTS 05.jpg

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                          jpalm32
                          last edited by

                          Looks like something done with VUE.
                          Very nice.

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                            hellnbak
                            last edited by

                            Beautiful work! 👍 I really like the grass, although I've never cared for palm trees (they kept stationing me in Fla and I got sick of them, I like trees that provide lots of nice shade. I loved the big old Banyon trees down there, with all the Spanish Moss hanging down)

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                              Richard
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                              That's it I'm over it! Not looking at your posts anymore! Every freakin time I just get depressed - 1. I want to visit your scenes and 2. I feel like a monkey's arse as a render artist!

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