OH MY GOSH. that's a render?

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I think it's gorgeous! Love the colors, the view, everything!

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BTW, congrats on the DD.

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It's soo beautiful~
Nice job

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Excellent work
Some amazing stuff in your gallery too.

How in the world did you get such beautiful water effects out of Terragen?! I've been trying with no luck...

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I'm looking at this with a mixture of awe and disappointment. Your creativity has really gone wild, and I'm so inspired by your use of water in this pic. I never realised the distortion filter could work so well without waves to distort - and the colouring and contrast combination is phenominal.

But... however fabulous the terrain, overall, look when zoomed out to this level, the effect on the clouds is, I think, less than beautiful. I know you wanted the "surrounded" feel to them but the polar distortion is just too much... I would be tempted to make this two renders if you were to do it again. The second point I don't like is the huge number of triangles in the terrain. I know it's a delicate balance when you have render time to think about, but something as obvious as this should be taken care of. If you don't like the smoothness brought about by the stats filter it's a clone-tool job, or you could resize the terrain up, stats filter, then immediately down again. It won't be perfectly the same but much better.

Having said that, this piece has the potential for being a DD in my eyes, with just how you've created this wonderful atmosphere of the storm, but a peace within its eye, and you innovative use of the water settings. Technically some of it is great, but it is pulled down by some equally bad points. If you redo this then I would be very interested to see how you improve it

Og.

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fantastic man - aside some slight triangulation probs in the terrain... daaaaamn good work here.

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