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#101

Hey Hansl, is that last ‘Red Mountain’ one Macchu Piccu? You’ve definitely established yourself as our resident landscaper, and you’re doing a hell of a fine job!!
:+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: and one of these: :sunglasses:

#102

thank you, Doc and Michael! :smiley: yup, that last one became mucho Machu Picchu like, but thats probably the formations most easily done the alphacentury way - probably one of the next will be a vista of something Guilin-like :smiley:

here some kind of after-storm-fiberfrenzy took charge and spoilt the composition, but i liked the lighting in the bg, so i uploaded the pic anyway:

  • juandel
#103

Honestly, Juandel, I’ve sene places in Montana where the trees got to be just like that. It’s a very realistic picture, and very pretty. Makes me homesick!

#104

glad you liked it, Aurick! :slight_smile: i’ve never been in Montana, but the pic might well have been inspired by some movies. or it was the z-rush-hour, once more, when the paintings seem to create themselves :wink:

below is some vista that reminds me of a lil trekking we did in Andorra, a tiny country in the pyrenees between spain and france about 12 years ago…

the alpha was created by applying an alpha picked from the pollen database site to a sphere, z-offsetting it, snapshotting and replacing the snapshots of the tool all over the canvas, mrgbz-grabbing the whole thing and applying the thus created alpha to a plane to do the alpha-century-move (which i know by heart by now :D) i applied material 041 from southerns fabulous Fleshpack for the mountains, did a lil alpabrushing for medium distance rocks and fiber one for the trees, exported the bestrendered pic with fog and depthcue and reimported it as a texture to fill the canvas of a new document with it and started finishing… a lil smudge and simple brush, painting the frontclouds and the rivlets (shadingenhancer at small brushsize, reduced rgb-value and hitting: repeat stroke in the stroke-window afterwards). finally some tweakings in the adjustments - voila! this time i think the massive fog is ok… at least i remember the weather to be like that back then! we were freezing and dripping :slight_smile: hope you’ll like it!

  • juandel
#105

here is a handy little tool for your alphacentury you might like. http://www.pixolator.com/zbc-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=1&t=003566
it does some of the work for you as a short cut…

#106

and handy it is, EZ! another great tool out of your workshop! :+1: :+1: :+1:

the land in the below one is the first terrain i did with it, water was done the :+1: :+1: :+1: Zoid-Kaz -way as well as trying to make use of a few of the techniques Muvlo showed us in his beautifullious saltwaterthread. imho, it is a good example as to what might happen if an alpine soul who has not seen the sea for years tries doing a seascape without having any reference at hand: no way them waves would behave like this anywhere on our planet :smiley: :

  • juandel
#107

A very refreshing view! The water looks nice and clear thanks to the transparency, and the whitecaps on the waves are very convincing. Any tips on how you do those?

#108

:slight_smile: thanks, Zoid! i painted the whitecaps after baking the land and water layers mostly with simplebrush (z-off) using the spotted alpha with reduced heigth (mostly), both with freehand stroke and a few drag-rectangle ones… and did a lil smudging where the rocks and water meet - i think creating a crescentmoonshaped alpha would be a better way but did not succeed in creating one i liked!

  • juandel
#109

OK that does it! After seeing this thread go on and on I’m just gonna have to try doing one myself. Now see what y’all have gone and done! :wink:

#110

dont Blame me pix the one who started it ^^^LOL
i see the master land scapers posted another one juandel :+1:

#111

Just been scrolling over all the new Lands, and what wonderous lands they are! Thanks for so many places to go Juandel. :slight_smile:

#112

next one:

when playing with the colour-adjustments it turned into something subaquatic. i liked it better than the unadjusted version anyway, so what you see here are sea-ants, a species yet to be discovered, as far as i know :smiley:

the :+1: :+1: :+1: ant.ztl is © Kathy and the primo foliage © smiles (downloadable from this thread)

  • juandel
#113

Dawn and Sunset at U-Shaped Bay Green Island.
Playing around as usual, I doodled and doodled and this is the result. Image 2 same image at sunset with a little fog added

#114

Juandel and DeeVee those are just too cool!! :+1: :+1: :+1: + :slight_smile: = :smiley: :smiley:

Sea Ants Juandel? Hmmm…bet there are some sea flies and sea spiders hangin’ around too? :wink:

#115

Very nice underwater effect jaundel. That is the beauty of art you can create whatever comes into your mind.

#116

excellent images… juandel and deevee… thanks…

#117

A new world that is very foggy and which, in the first years of this world anyway, used a lot of DepthBrush.

Howling:

#118

Very nice Muvlo! That turned out superb! Looks almost like a Bryce image! :+1: :+1: :+1:

#119

Fantastic modeling and lighting. I see three faces. Anyone see more?

#120

The sense of depth here is very cool. And I like the colors; it’s beautiful. I spotted three faces, too.