desert beginnings

[mdunakin]

First attempt with the desert scene.
I spent the whole day on this thing yesterday and wasn't very happy until today when I changed where the camera is placed.
Now I'm much happier.
http://www.md-arts.com/Desert_Cactus_Close_1.jpg
The lizard will be in the little clearing.
Obviously I still need to add in the rocks and pebbles and little twigs and other junk that's on the desert floor.
I will work on that today.
.................................................. .......md :)

[HowardM]

It looks more like autumn leaves on the ground...
nice Sas cactus?

[oxyg3n]

The image is looking nice, but it looks awefully blury. It might be my monitor though, I think it is getting time to replace it.

[Dave3D]

I think u need to change the camera angle to make it better, framing is always important.

Dave

[mdunakin]

OK, started over from scratch, as the other scene was farrrrrrrrrrrrr to large to work with.
This one renders out, some time this century, it also doesn't use up all of my ram.
A few more little items to add to it, including a few small shrubs and like that and I should be done with the landscape part.
Even if it totally doesn't look as good as others may want, I won't be doing all that much more to it after these things, as I am really tired of looking at this same old desert and lizard stuff and want to move on to other things.
...........................md :)
Enjoy, and all comments are welcome :)
http://www.md-arts.com/DesertCactusRocks_800_1.jpg
or this little 4in sample right here:

[HowardM]

hot damn, that looks GREAT!
are the cactus' made with SAS?

[mdunakin]

Yep! The cacti are made with sas full :)

Right now I am working on the lighting and the DOF.
Should have something that makes me more happy by tomorrow....... I hope :)


thanx again too, and next when I get all the way happy with this scene aspect, then I can start getting the lizard placed in there.

................md :)