After watching 
's video tutorial on how to get ultra-realistic landscapes in Vue 7, I found myself experimenting after watching it until I came up with this scene 
This is not so much about being the most conceptually interesting or original thing in my gallery, but moreso to demonstrate the technical sides of what I've learned from the video, so basing it off visuals alone - I think it's safe to say it's probably one of my most "realistic" landscapes which is evidence the video worked!
If you are a Vue 7 user yourself and never seem to be happy with how your Vue terrains look and yet don't want to rely soley on "presets", then forking over a bit of spare cash for the in-depth video (which goes for over an hour! so it's not some cheap, small thing
) might be a wise investment. It also has taught me certain aspects of Vue's function editor - something that I couldn't get my head around beforehand in spite of using Vue for some 2 years now...The video can be found on His Website
But if your'e not and don't have a clue what I'm talking about and just want to see more pretty pictures, then don't worry - I have now uploaded a cool sci-fi scene based on this image here [link]
Artwork remains the copyright property of my gallery. Please do not use or re-distribute my digital art
's video tutorial on how to get ultra-realistic landscapes in Vue 7, I found myself experimenting after watching it until I came up with this scene This is not so much about being the most conceptually interesting or original thing in my gallery, but moreso to demonstrate the technical sides of what I've learned from the video, so basing it off visuals alone - I think it's safe to say it's probably one of my most "realistic" landscapes which is evidence the video worked!
If you are a Vue 7 user yourself and never seem to be happy with how your Vue terrains look and yet don't want to rely soley on "presets", then forking over a bit of spare cash for the in-depth video (which goes for over an hour! so it's not some cheap, small thing
) might be a wise investment. It also has taught me certain aspects of Vue's function editor - something that I couldn't get my head around beforehand in spite of using Vue for some 2 years now...The video can be found on His Website But if your'e not and don't have a clue what I'm talking about and just want to see more pretty pictures, then don't worry - I have now uploaded a cool sci-fi scene based on this image here [link]
Artwork remains the copyright property of my gallery. Please do not use or re-distribute my digital art
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I'm glad you feel that way about my work. I think the need for an escape is also the reason why I create them in the first place
I have a couple of crappy Terragen renders from a few years ago in my scraps though
It was Quadspinner's video that also got me into the function editor for my terrains.
I find it easy to create terrains that look good with only a little fiddling but I'm still at a loss when I need to create a scene with specific elements in specific places but that's where the old Bryce workflow of multiple terrains overlapping each other to make the overall landscape.
It just seems wrong to do it that way when there's procedural options.
Ditto for using image maps to build the terrain too although I'm trying a combination of the fractals for the roughness and the image map for the altitudes which will hopefully make it crisp looking as well as having the mountains exactly where I want them.
however, if the area is barren, plants should be really rickety ( is that the right word?) and convoluted (alright, I'm using those words for the first time so it'll be pretty understandable if no one understands it
er, I think I'm just bragging. nice pic, and the idea of a landscape isn't bad either. those rocks really look like cold and cracked lava
i absolutely love this piece
fanatastic job
5 star production to say the very least... i don't know what i could say for the most... i'm lost for wordsq
i prefer surrealism as well
and you can't learn your limits through thinking - it takes practice
i suck at landscape art - i do mostly figure drawing
just wondering, what sort of memory is your system
running on to do scenes like that ?
just wondering as I've been considering buying the full version, but when I've been using the free demo, it crashes if you do things to quickly and stuff
programs like zbrush work fine but somthing about this one makes it go a bit loopy... hope you can help
I've got a dual core too but it has 2 gig of ram,
I thought that would have been enough normally ha ha
maybe I shall invest in some more memory
thanks for the advice
looking forward too seeing your new work
You have demonstrated exceptional skill in this render and have indeed captured the essence of realism without making it look "ultra realistic." I personally do not like the extreme (photo) realism some artists create. After all, a photograph leaves little room for imagination (even though esthetic photographic compositions and effects enable one to make an esthetic creation). I am not anti-photography by any means however, I do consider photography to be dramatically different than traditional visual arts. As you know, the NASA space images are interesting and scientifically useful albeit, devoid of any artistic spirit. If I wanted a photograph I would simply take one and not bother with any artistic creativity. I shall be most interested to see what metamorphosis this image takes as a space scene as well as your future expressions in this genre . . .
My best,
Michael C. Turner
The NASA images are a good example, some do have a slight artistsic feel to them, like the abstract patterns of s cropped nebula or a zoom-in of a Desert from space etc, but yeah - they're more for getting ideas and learning the subject than actual creative inspiration