The Ancient Guardians by Badsue
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
TG2, postwork in Picture Publisher.
Terrain and surface work are my own, trees from Planetside (sorry can't remember who did this one but I love it), and I used one of the phantastic cloud clip files from Calico (brewing storm), available at Planetside as well.
If anyone could tell me why my trees mutated to bushes (half-dug in the ground!) after having used the twist & shear shader, I'd be very grateful!
Not that I don't like this result, but it's still an accident and wasn't intended. I couldn't find out how it happened - maybe wrong node connections? A single object does sit on the ground correctly, but not a population. Miracle to me! ;-)
Thanks to those who helped me a lot solving the atmo problem (Paul, Markal), you made my day!
Have a great weekend everyone!
P.S.: Thanks to phfrancke the problem with the dug trees is solved - connected the population with the grass layer, but still had to delete the hook for "sit on terrain", otherwise they'd still appear dug. Now they DO sit on the terrain, but I have not the slightest idea why! *grin*

Comments (29)
This is superb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok. I am officially impressed! WOW!!
Looks awesome!
fantastic dramatic light and sky....and i like the rockformation
majestic view - great light, really like the light and composition in the center. About the trees, instead of using the planet surface, use the surface from your last - bottom node. Really well done image here!!
Fantastic terrains and scene...very well done!
Marvelous
Astonishing work of art!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful! Great rock and lovely lighting. Corrie
Stunning work,fantastic rock and sky.
Amazing! Very well done!
Sublime lighting!
Die Gesteinsformation könnte ich mir auch gut in einer SF Scene vorstellen - das hat schon wirklich was beeindruckendes hier und es passt wie immer alles und amcht es zu einen Eyecatcher - zoom ist hier pflicht um das ganze zu erfassen - wünsche Dir und Deinen lieben einen schönen Sonntag
Wow, love this pic! Really like your mountain, those trees brig the scene to life. Well done!
Really amazing, excellent render
Fantastic work Susanne.
This is really an eyecatcher! Great Work!
super terrain and lighting, though the texture tiling is a bit obvious, still great work!
impressive terrain & lighting & clouds
great work!
I could spend the day with continuous commenting on this rendering but will just keep it simply to....AMAZING!
This is really GREAT, everything is perfect on this picture.
Beautiful!
Awesome rock structures and textures. Cool lighting. Very slight graininess in atmosphere. This tends to spoil the feeling of space in renders but I'm nitpicking. It's an impressive scene.
This is an excellent!
stunning landscape and mood!!!!!!
I love this dramatic render, Sue. Beautiful, excellent work!
Dramatische Felsformation !
Brilliant GW