Winter in Schwarzwald by bigbraader

Vue • Landscape • posted on Dec 14, 2003

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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.

Description

...inspired by a black and white photo, taken by my father in the 1950's, when he was a NATO soldier in Germany. I always loved the picture, hanging on the wall in a frame, when I was a child. Last year I a made a similar render, with Bryce and from memory. This time I actually dug out a version of the photo in "the old archives" and made this render. It doesn't do the photo full justice, but it's pretty close, in terms of composition at least. - No snow on the branches? No, there isn't any in the photo - sometimes reality can be somewhat unrealistic :) ********** Rendered in Vue, trees made in XFrog, some are alphaplanes in the background (had to do it that way, the file would have become unreasonably large otherwise, 46 mio. polys in the actual scene already). Rendertime 7 hrs. 44. min. - a little heavy, due to the volumetric sunlight & atmosphere. Some postwork in Photoshop. ********** Hope you like it - comments appreciated.

Comments (29)

timefighter

2:11PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Very kewl image. Nice to see you recreated a part of you past, and part of history. Well Done!

IQ200

2:26PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Very, very realistic scene. Excellent work!!!

rds

2:28PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Nicely done great use of light perhaps your wall has a new picture.

grunthor

2:44PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Gorgeous!

lingrif

3:03PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Beautiful - I love the lighting

sacada

3:36PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Excellent lighting and xfrogging. Beautiful image.

zxcvb

4:38PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Excellent lighting and tree's , well done:-)

erka

4:44PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Wonderful! From all the snowy Vue images i've seen lately, this one has got the most realistic snow imho. Excelent work, and my vote :)

kenwas

5:34PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Great shadows on the snow. Excellent!

Richard T

7:02PM | Sun, 14 December 2003

Very well done, I like it a lot.

jimgranite

12:03AM | Mon, 15 December 2003

You've acheived a very photographic look, much like the original I presume. It stands out in contrast to many Vue scenes that are more idealized and "painterly". Good work.

wabe

1:06AM | Mon, 15 December 2003

Living in the Schwarzwald i think you captured the feeling very good. Especially for today when it started to snow - hell on the streets. Again, excellent image you've done.

raffyraffy

2:50AM | Mon, 15 December 2003

Great mood in this one pic. Very well done. Bravo and vote!

bigbraader

3:15AM | Mon, 15 December 2003

Thanks for your wonderful comments. I'm so glad you like it. I posted this reduced size version for screen-viewing purposes - the original is somewhat larger. I may post that one to my website.