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Published: 2011-12-14 11:12:21 +0000 UTC; Views: 8368; Favourites: 180; Downloads: 0
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Something friendly looking for once
The tea clipper is actually a complete 1.8M poly model i made a while ago, never made a scene with it but it will get its own shot sooner or later, not many details visible here
Comments, critiques and faves appreciated as always
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C4D + ngplant + PS
Poly Count: 7 Mio (about 90 with Render Instances)
All models and textures by me... i should practice more on plants i guess
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I had to zoom in to see the ship.Β She definitely deserves her own scene. Getting a big square-rigger through that harbor entrance must have been a white-knuckle maneuver, unless there's another way in.Β Did you know that, based on observed performance and some fluid-dynamic calculations, Cutty Sark could develop 9000 horsepower on a good day?Β The late clippers outperformed the early steamships, but a steamship doesn't need the big, expert (read expensive) crew that a clipper did, so slower-but-cheaper won out.
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Nope didnt know that, i just like how elegant they look
And agreed the port would be too small, but i always imagined it as coming from the other side, while the small entrance is used by the natives living there.. or something
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I love your work mixing structures and landscapes. I imagine a group of explorers on an alien world just crossing over a cliff and discovering this view.
Excellent work as usual!
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Hehe i imagined it on a smaller scale, the strangers are those on the ship, discovering some unknown culture
Thanks!
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BIt late, but thanks! And yes, i guess
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Oh my goodness I love this, is this from a video game or something? This looks amazing!
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Hm not directly although it kinda looks like Riven
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Wow. This MUST be turned into some type of free world game thing. I would play the heck out of something like this. It's marvelous! 
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This is really great. The stones and plants look so real!
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Thanks 
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You are welcome friend
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ah great to hear, i only played III and this reminds me very much of this game
grΓΌΓe
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I agree, it does seem somethign straight out of Riven. Such a beautiful game that was.
So. The rocks and stuff... Is that Terregen, Surface Spread,, Vue, hand built, or what? The textures on the rocks are great too. Are they rpocedural?
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Mostly hand built... the foreground was extruded from a plane then smoothed and sculpted. The two background island where C4D standard terrains, modified with the magnet tool.
The texture is all procedural except for the color channel rock and sand textures, just looks a bit too procedural without i think. I used falloffs and gradients for the different look on the slope and top parts and an alpha map for the (now barely visible) path leading to the middle tower.
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ngplant... Is that a standalone application or is it a plugin for Cinema? I've never heard of it. Is that how you made the plants in the background or are they from a collection like Evermotion?
Also how did you replicate the background plants? MoGraph? Carbon Scatter (Screw you E-On), Surface Spread, Paint on Surface, or something else...?
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ngplant is a free plant generator [link] Probably nothing that couldn't be done with cloner objects but it's simple to use and has a minimal interface, kinda like it.
I didn't have good references for plants though, any botanist would probably laugh at this
MoGraph with simple poly selections.
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Ahh I see. Thanks for pointing that out, I'm always looking for new plants for my scenes. Lack of plants and good sky textures (And lack of volumetric clouds... I've heard almost nothing but bad things about Ozone for the latest version of Cinema...) and not havign any good luck with terrains in general are the prime reasons I don't do many outdoor stuff D:
I only have Visualize so MoGraph is out for me, but I do have Surface Spread which does a wonderful job at the distribution thing. It's only about 90$ or so (79 Euros) and comes pretty close to Vue in terms of replicating and scattering. Comes with a decent plant library too
Not as good as Evermotion's or E-On's, but good enough.
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wow! it's so realistic! it looks like a photo!
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Hm i wished
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I've been cleaning out a massive list of deviations, I haven't checked on my watched list for a long time, but I couldn't pass looking as this more closely. Truly beautiful, Keep up the good work!
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Hehe i know that too well, bet i missed tons of good pics this way
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very nice, very riven-esque and inspiring. but one question: won't the central tower-like construct become filled with water if it rains? unless its such a collector with this very purpose, can't know.
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Hehe true, but thats the actual purpose of course
Ive had a different lightning setup at one point (14 o clock or something) and the colors actually looked just like Riven, but i thought this would be a bit too obvious...
Thanks
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