one more sunny day by the seaside :D

[juandel]

cant get enough of them, so i tried to do a beach-vista one for myself from memory - cheapo travelling i know its a compository nightmare, but i wanted to let as many of my alphaskinned and zsphere palmtrees as possible grow somewhere tropicale

just in case anybody wants to give it a try, here is the palmleaf-zsphere-tool - (looking forward to get it back improved )

- juandel

[banez]

looks good

[Stonecutter]

Wonderful!!!!
This is really a beautiful piece Juandel/Hansl/JuJu, etc...
I love both the pov you used, and the feeling of distance and depth you achieved...I could hang out here for years!!

[DeeVee]

It is very nice to see those 3D trees jaundel
I have begun playing with the Zspheres but I am still getting that very thick look which is not what I want, so I am experimenting some more. When I get it the way I want, I will post something for you to look at. It is so good to be able to create your vacation spot just how YOU wish. Looking forward to seeing more of this type of image.
DeeVee
Joe.

[Flycatcher]

A very nice little cameo, Juandel. I know for you it was the experimenting with the trees, but the things I like best are the perspective and curve of the shoreline, but most of all the way you've done the water.

[DM]

Very nice, I like the palm trees and the beach is magnificent, are you taking bookings.
Dave

[Tag]

Very pretty Juandel! I like the sense of depth and overall image. One of the most striking parts of the image to me is the water. It turned out great

[robotalk]

I feel the breeze --just what I need--beautiful picture

[Muvlo]

Very pretty Juandel, nice waves, and you've achieved a good sense of depth as well!

[Digits]

Wow Juju the vista is fantasitico! Great sense of depth and distance and the color pallette is wonderful. Reminds me of all the beautiful places I have seen in the caribbean

ah to be there

[Zoid]

Beautiful view, and an interesting vantage point. Maybe you were up in this tree getting some coconuts when you saw this scene

[wenna]

This needs a lot more work on it, but just a thank you for sharing your palm frond tool..

[DeeVee]

Wenna will done I like the thin fronds but is there a way to get them flat? your tree reminds me of the tree fern which grows in the Mountains on Montserrat.

[DLee]

The water is excellent, Juandel and the depth is awesome.

[juandel]

thank you, my friends! and special trombones to the delurking of Floyd and s to wenna! looking good!

in fact i am a lil perplexed that there is any depth in here at all, because with the exception of the front fronds (no, Zoid , i’ve never climbed up a palmtree, so my memories arent that accurate - cheap vertical mind travelling done here as well) its all painted 2.75 (even the alphaskinned trees are very flat) or 2D wise on a blue-filled canvas and all of it is within a very short z-axis range only. i tried to get a depth feeling by using lesser rgb-intensity the more far away things are... then i did a best render, reimported it as a texture, created a new layer for the front fronds, dragged them in front and applied a depthcue render with an about U-shaped graph, so that the closer frond gets a lil blur as well...

DeeVee: i realized the fronds look like some inflatable device now that i read your comment here is a frond.ztl done with the unified-skin version of the zsphere-frond (for easier upload i optimized it, so you might want to apply a divide-deformation to re-increase the mesh-count). to achieve flatter leafs i masked the middle part so that only the leafs reacted to a few negative inflate (i think it was along xy-axis only) and smooth deformations. the front leaf then had to be taken care of via yet another mask applied to it>invert mask and deformations along different axis... someone more into modelling than the two of us might do much better, i hope

- juandel (who instead of running into the surf has to run to the office once again and right now and very fast - at least there are no shells to cut my feet here )