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Published: 2005-12-11 00:25:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 100; Favourites: 1; Downloads: 2
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Description Well, here's the WIP I promised from my journal!

As you can see, it's just that.....a WIP. Here's what I plan on:


  • Fixing the grass: In this image I rendered 1 million blades of grass, but I dont think thats enough. I may have to bump it up to around 5 million. I also plan on scaling it down a bit, it seems too long. But I like the color, it came out perfectly, it's juuuuust that color of grass in the early evening, kinda golden-green. I think I'll use another instance of the hair shader to add some weeds, too. but i dont know about that.

  • Sky. I plan on adding a early-evening sky, with a sun on the right, and maybe a lens flare, as well as some light fog, and thin, orange-grey clouds.

  • Stuff. I plan on adding something on the hill on the left. I thought about a boulder, Buddha, or an obelisk, but I think i'm leaning towards an obelisk. I'm going to position it opposite the sun, on that hill, and shade it so you can barely see the design on it, and give it a really long, late-evening shadow. I might even add a boulder on the right as well.

  • Motion blur. I added a motion blur of 3.0 seconds here, I think i'll bring that down some, it looks too blurred here.

  • Glow. I think I'll add a golden glow to portions of the image, to accent the "pristine" grass and add some drama to the obelisk and the sun.


  • What do you think so far?

    Softimage XSI 5.0
    Render time: umm....overnight? I fell asleep.
    Factoids: I used the hair system to make the grass. There are exactly 1 million blades of grass on the pasture, count them, if you like .
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Comments: 4

Seshygirl04 [2005-12-11 08:26:28 +0000 UTC]

Dude... do you have absolutely no friggen life? Seriously... this must've taken hours and hours and hours and hours to do. Wow, yeah... I still really like it!

You're my besterly friend as always!!!! I think that the changes will look nice!

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TheThunder In reply to Seshygirl04 [2005-12-11 20:40:41 +0000 UTC]

no it didnt take that long, about an hour actually.

It's made using a hair shader, actually. What you do is assign the shader to an object, and hair appears on it right in front of your eyes. It makes all of the hair for you. All I did was tell it to make a million hairs, make them green like grass, and make them very short. Took about an hour in all.

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Seshygirl04 In reply to TheThunder [2005-12-14 03:37:05 +0000 UTC]

Still too long for me!

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TheThunder In reply to Seshygirl04 [2005-12-14 22:32:53 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, but it looks like I wont be able to finish this now, I don't have enough RAM to render all 10 million blades of grass.

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