[Asmithey]

I have finally finished my rendering. The final out put was 7200x3600. It was rendered by Render Rocket. It took over a 7 days on +/- 20 (4) core machines. Render Rocket is very flexible. They have many computers which allows them to divvy up machines and let me render longer at a less expensive fee.

This will be printed at 6' long on an 8' sign.

I had to re-render the slump block walls because the precision was too low on the displacement and there were lost of scrunchy lines. So the black matte channel came in very handy as a compositing tool and I was able to re-render the block only and without doing a separate shadow pass too. The block in these images is only rendered to 14.3 SL. The final block is still rendering at Render Rocket to 17 SL. But I thought at 14 SL it was clear enough to post.

Aaron

[Bubbaloo]

Congrats on a job well done!

[Asmithey]

Thanks Brian,

I like your "stuff on your desk" renderings too.

Aaron

[Miguel Piñón]

Hi Asmithey,

Excelent work here!!!!!

Your cactus and all the desert plants are great, where can I buy that collection?

Congrats very nice style!!!!!!

Miguel

[Asmithey]

Hi Miguel,

Thanks....

The plants are a mix of X-frog and from a local CG Artist in my neck of the desert. His name is Charley Carlat. If you Google his name you can see all the plants he has for sale on his web site. They are very impressive. It just takes some time to create Maxwell materials but the time spent is well worth it.

I have tried making some of my own plants with x-frog. The stand alone version is quite clunky and unpleasant. Although, you can make some nice vegetation with it. You just need patience. It might be better via a plug-in but currently there is not one for Form-Z.

Thanks again,

Aaron

[yolk]

Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
They're the modern stone age family.
From the town of Bedrock,
They're a page right out of history.



nice renderings

[Asmithey]

Thanks Yolk.

I think Fred's quary is just beyond the butte.