Nat Geo Cave by sirenia

Vue • Scenic • posted on Jun 06, 2009

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Description

Hi all, This image is inspired by watching probably way to much to the National Geographic Channel on TV :-) The cave model (inclusive the rocks) is created in Hexagon. It is a VERY BIG cave model but you only see a tiny bit of it here. The roots are just trees placed upside down and the two Poser figs are 2x James with different poses and a different t-shirt color. Render time was 8h39"03' with Advanced effects quality set to 50%, Light Quality boost +2, Sky/Fog/Haze Quality Boost +2 and was rendered in Spectral Model with Global Radiosity....and still there is grain visible in the rays... Some level adjustment in Photoshop. Hope you like it :-) Thanks for looking and feel free to c&c Wim :-)

Comments (50)

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pops

2:17PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

WOW-this is awesome

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Darkglass

2:25PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Fantastic scene & lighting!!

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Kindredsoul

2:30PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

this is amazing, splendid....although I suggest move the quality boost slider all the way to to get rid of grainess (although I have done that myself and I still get some grainess)....

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jmherve

2:33PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Wonderfull cave. The godrays are excellent, but a little grainy isn't it ?

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Half-Baked

2:33PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Awesome work, the excellent lighting highlighting the scene beautifully!

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2can

2:35PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

This is brilliant. By bizarre coincidence I am currently trying to do an image with exactly the same subject/lighting in carrara & or Vue but I'm really struggling with getting the volumetric lighting right. You nailed this. Hope I get even 50% near what you've achieved.

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FrankT

2:37PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

looks pretty good even with a bit of noise in the volumetrics

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bruno021

2:46PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Looks really good. Wouldn't have used a spectral atmo here, since the sky isn't visible, so you could've boosted the light quality more without more rendering time.

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smee440

2:49PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Excellent composition and lighting.

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Umbetro38

3:23PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

excellent lightrays here friend - bravo

Winther

3:31PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Very nice, I like the way you did the light :)

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E.Houser

3:58PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Amazing image! Great job

BAR-CODE

4:00PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

i like it Wim.. i think if you had put black top and bottom onto it it would have more impact. Maybe try it and put it up for a Picture of the day at E-on ..you might get it.. Je bent goed bezig ;} Chris

LadyLight

4:10PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Love it! The vegetation looks great!

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slonishko

5:02PM | Sat, 06 June 2009

Nice work ! I do agree with bruno however on the sky settings, there isd alot of grain in the volumetrics. Could have swapped out render times with the sky and boosted the beams up a notch or 3. A great piece though.

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