Near Extinction

[AcTiViZoN]

After about 2-3 hours of work, i am finally content with what i have.
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Original:

[.Void]

meh.
I know what tut you used.

[AcTiViZoN]

Almost everyone and their grandmother knows what tut I used lol
I just can't some cnc

[Lewk]

top water is too blue compared to bottom water. if the visibility of the water is so well underneath, than the water would be lighter on top. also depth, the water isnt deep. So it shouldnt be that dark..

WATER LESSON MARR FO

[Dolce]

Lotttss of bad stuff going on here.

The best part is how well you cut the rhino/grass out and used it. That's great.

Problems : The tree on the right is god-awful. Like, -real- bad. It looks like it was taken from a 100x100 image and then magnified. My suggestion would be to use a background that already had a tree, and build around it. A "tree render" will never really look good.

Also, note :

See, this is how water works : The top of the water is just the reflection of the sky + the color of the water underneath. The color of the water underneath is determined by how brightly it's lit, and what's in the water. Thus, we can conclude that the TOP of the water will never be darker than the water underneath, because if the water underneath is dark, the top will be the same color + sky reflections, so, generally, it'll be lighter. Your issue is that the underneath water is crystal clear and almost as light as the picture I attached, but your top water looks like water in the middle of the night.

Not only that, but water that ripply would have reflections on things in the water (ground, rhino) like in the pic I posted.