I’m just starting all sorts of WIP topics… and they’re all related to the very same thing! insane laughter 
Here’s a test animation of rain, with splashing effects, on the road model I am working on. I also filled the pothole with water and reflected the sky…
http://www.iamsane.com/soren/animation/psycho_rain.mov (about 700 kb)
Here’s a related image:
Oh, and here’s that image with a little post-production done on it in Photoshop… the look I intend to have with all of this… sorta like film noir.
Looks great. I love the clouds. The rain looks good too.
1 thing I noticed:
The crack almost looks like some kind of plantation like a vein. It looks like it could use a bit of reshaping. Try using pictures of actual road cracks to see how they look.
Here is what google images says: [click here]
Feel free to ignore my suggestion if you disagree. It isn’t a big thing really. It doesn’t hugely affect the quality of the image as whole. Good work 
wow, that’s very good… it has a very good atmosphere to it. i agree that the cracks need some work, though…
d52477001
That’s great! Remembers me of one experiment i did about rain once… what is it? Particles with textures?
I love the foggyness in the first one! But the second one has… a different feel on it… i don’t know… they are both great 
Looks sweet so far. The only thing that bothers me is that the scene seems to be too bright…Maybe darken the scene by tweaking the lighting? other than that, it looks awesome!
(tut on making rain?)
dante
I agree that my cracks aren’t the best in the world of realism… hehe… you can see that they’ve gotten similar comments in another topic in the WIP forum. I’ll try to work on them some more, of course. I could darken the scene up a bit, too, yeah!
How many people really want a rain tutorial from me anyway?
I would love a rain mini-tut, the particles never work for me!
Anyway, I think the atmosphere is excellent, I just loved the Fugue trailer. I like both pictures in different ways: the fog in the first is just excellent. And the second one has that deep contrast, just like film noir (I love noir style BTW). I think that the cracks look a bit too 2D, I think they should have a varying depth and perhaps a tad of bevel, but the basic idea looks good.
Uhmmmm… errrr…
What’s “film noir”?
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in the first pic, the crack does not look very good, looks like it’s been painted onto the road surface, needs some depth. and the puddle looks like a lump of grey plastic.
In the second pic, the crack looks great. the puddle still looks like a lunmp of, well… something… not sure what. but not very puddle-ish.
the atmosphere in the second picture is very powerful, and gloomy and depressing. Very well done! 
let’s see more!