My initials (WIP)

another C4D piece i m working on right now. its still work in progress. i have to smooth out the polygons, add texture and a little more details. i am done with the base and added texture to the focal point. i am still working on everything else. and yeah A.P. are my initials. Comments and ideas most welcomed.
http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/6294/proj2nn6.png
http://img345.imageshack.us/img345/5640/proj2gc4.png
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/282/sandapsq3.jpg
(plant models from 3dplants.com, and of course i have tweaked them a little bit for better quality. Hair department plugin used for grass.)

Hah, thatspretty cool.
Ground couldnt use some more texture, and the lighting is off alot.
Cool stuff man

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Originally Posted by Henry

Hah, thatspretty cool.
Ground couldnt use some more texture, and the lighting is off alot.
Cool stuff man

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thanks. r u trying to say i NEED more texture or i DON'T on the ground?
yea the lighting is just there to test the shadows and how the base looks in light.

mor texture on the ground imo.

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Originally Posted by Henry

mor texture on the ground imo.

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oh lol i didnt know wat u wer trying to say because u said i "couldnt use more texture" lol. i was thinking of adding small pebbles and gravel in places to make it look more realistic but i donno any easy way of doing that other than making each and ever gravel. lol.

Take away the plants apart from the three that are touching the initials; at the moment, the scene is too cluttered and it looks random.

Otherwise its awesome, love the modelling of the stones.

yeah, lighting looks awkward. I wouldn't have been able to read AP if you didn't say it was there, but I dunno if that's good or bad, honestly. this could look better in color, if done right.

i removed the extra plants, tried a new position for the light but i cant decide what to put for the texture on the ground.

ok i decided what to do. i added an awesome lawn. not all i need to do is add texture to the plants. the lawn took a lot of trial and error and my computer kept freezing cuz the polygons lagged my computer like crazy but i am happy that the effort gave a good result.

Duuude so nice.
Add color and texture to the plants, and maybe add like a dirt patch or something?
FUcking awesome though man!!
Also maybe give the rock a little color, some brown or something

Wow alot better. Keep it up!

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Originally Posted by SyKo

Wow alot better. Keep it up!

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Originally Posted by Henry

Duuude so nice.
Add color and texture to the plants, and maybe add like a dirt patch or something?
FUcking awesome though man!!

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thank you. the grass makes it look awesome doesn't it? lol yea i will add color to plants later. i dont feel like doing anything right now lol.

sand with few rocks/pebbles would look awesome as welll.

Its coming on nicely. The removal of the extra plants works methinks, but keep the canvas the same size as before ;)

He just resized it for a quick upload :P
and yeah, the grass helped soo much.
like rob said, sand, rocks, pebbles

sand on grass would be a lil weired but i will add pebbles and rocks defeinately. lol i cant stop looking at it.. it looks so realistic.

Yeah, way better in color and w/ grass. The rocks do need color, and vary it slightly for each one so it looks more realistic.

no I meant.. keep the space around the rocks where the other plants used to be.

Gaah, whyyyyy are people saving them as PNGs?!?!?!? It takes 10 times longer to load than a JPG... It's annoying.

Anyways, it looks good to me. I would have sand, as some people mentioned, instead of grass, but it's a matter of taste. The idea and modelling of the stones feels a bit Maya (not the program, zlol).

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Originally Posted by Rabieshund

Gaah, whyyyyy are people saving them as PNGs?!?!?!? It takes 10 times longer to load than a JPG... It's annoying.

Anyways, it looks good to me. I would have sand, as some people mentioned, instead of grass, but it's a matter of taste. The idea and modelling of the stones feels a bit Maya (not the program, zlol).

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i donno for some reason i like the quality of PNG better than JPEG. PNG is clearer (i think from what i have tested lol).

anyways i didnt do sand because adding sand texture to a flat plane will greately reduce its details. what i m trying to say is that sand has particles and its not flat, its rather bumpy. in a detailed view of the picture it will look flat rather than bumpy. making small bumps is harder than making grass lol. and i wanted to add vines ariound the initials (stones) so if it was sand it would look a little weired. i dont think there r any vines that grow in sand lol. and by maya do u mean Mayan culture?

Right now working on the texture for the leaves.

EDIT: i will try adding sand and see if it works.

Yes, the Mayan culture, of course. :P
Maybe as a bump map for sand you could do some noise in Photoshop, on a hi-res document or something. Would give you really small bumps.. But I don't know if it works, I'm no expert. xP

added sand. used bump it worked pretty well but lol i still wana use the plants but i cant do good texture to the plants. PS saved it as jpg lol.

I like it, but I think you need to lower the contrast on the bump map. To make it a little smoother. And I think the shape of the sand should look a bit more like this: http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/79975-sm.jpg, instead of random like yours is now. And try to set up some good light so that we'll see it in action! :D

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Originally Posted by Rabieshund

I like it, but I think you need to lower the contrast on the bump map. To make it a little smoother. And I think the shape of the sand should look a bit more like this: http://thumbs.photo.net/photo/79975-sm.jpg, instead of random like yours is now. And try to set up some good light so that we'll see it in action! :D

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i made beach sand insted of desert sand lol... i tried a whole bunch of lighting positions but none worked for some reason. all made it look unrealistic.