Rocks again

[solo]

Cool stuff as always mate.

Quick render with tree

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[pilou]

Another Gaudi style

[michaliszissiou]

@pete: how did this tree grow up there? LOL
Nice render, you could use some displacement on the rock.
@pilou: it looks good, its too small. The only way to hack texture is from edit texture palette due to UVs. These particular UVs aren't seamless though, lot of islands. Zbrush - UVmaster plugin can produce a one island non-stretching almost seamless UV map. I didn't use it here trying to avoid a 2048x2048 map. Uvs using 3DCoat here as sculpture, topology and tex painting.

[michaliszissiou]

Some improvement in rocks modeling, I suppose so.
No pp, conversion from hdr to jpg only. A raw podium v2 export 1.30 min.

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[michaliszissiou]

beautiful scene ross !!! Similar ideas here LOL
You need a higher definition model though, and a 2048x2048 version of the rock texture. I'm thinking to start a series of people by the sea, not so easy for low poly versions. Easier than the rocks. My last one is the first that doesn't look smooth

[EarthMover]

Michalis, I would love to see you make a Landscape Boulder collection. These are just great!!

[Ross Macintosh]

Thanks Michalis for sharing the lowdef rock. I had fun playing with it. My image features Alan Fraser's little girl from the FormFonts collection and is rendered using the beta of the new Render[In] plugin. Its sky generator is one of its best features.

Regards, Ross

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[EarthMover]

Thanks Michalis! Unfortunately Mediafire won't spit out the download file for me. I click the download link and just get a bunch of pop up ads, but no prompt to save a file. I'll try in a different browser and see if that helps.

EDIT - Working with Google Chrome. Thanks again!

[pilou]

@Michalis Thx for explanations

[michaliszissiou]

Thanks earthmother
If you like to download it try this. Its a free model of course, use it as you like.
http://www.mediafire.com/?2eaeln7e7rc9vmc

[michaliszissiou]

I updated the link, please try again, sorry.

[EarthMover]

Michalis,

Have you tried Sculptris yet? I'd be curious of your thoughts on that software.

[michaliszissiou]

I'm a zbrush guy. But a mac user too so... no. But my favorite app is 3DCoat, this could be the leader in a few years if not already. Voxel sculpture is superior, try it. The re-topo room is fantastic. In a few years everybody could model like this. Design first, boolean etc, retopo after. For hard surface modeling I mean. Not in a few years, right now lol.

[Ross Macintosh]

Michalis, your low-def rock texture renders really well in FotoSketcher! I attach my earlier example given a quick watercolour makeover in FotoSketcher. I only wish my real watercolour skills could get as good a result. I particularly like the how the rock rendered.

Regards, Ross

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[michaliszissiou]

I love it,
These textures on rocks are a photo combination, parts of my watercolors sometimes. Now watercolors again LOL.
Its the horizon, the lighting on the see what doesn't look OK. You used a background image, not reflected material, thats why. This nice figure looks more convincing now. Try the higher definition rocks too.

@unknownuser said:

I only wish my real watercolour skills could get as good a result

Your wish could come true, normally a watercolorist never uses white paint. This is a myth. I little bit of white with dark brown-black and lot of water for transparency is what gives these grey tones. A trick coming from the king of this medium. Dürer... and spray using your finger on brush ... Andrew Wyeth.