ooooo very nice 
Absolutely awesome!
Thanks everybody. I think the seagulls did add that little something…
Hey Blenditall,
Your scene did remind me of some of my own work. It’s nearly the same scene, so I thought you might be interested to see it.
(not to hijack your thread: http://backiz.ba.funpic.de/blender/show.php?id=48 )
Nice work!
BackiZ
This is one of the pictures where I could start to dream away. They instantly produce a feeling of a distant, calm future inside me. A future where all the daily stress and hassle, all the flurry of daily life have vanished and life itself can be started all over again.
From the picture I imagine a lonely person living inside the house. One bed sheet and two t-shirts hanging on the clothesline for drying. Enough to support one person. Guess they’re hanging there all day long. Don’t know if their owner will take them inside for the night or if he will just leave them hanging there knowing they will be still there in the morning.
The time of year seems to be autumn, from the look of the beautiful trees. Same I guess goes for him who is living inside the house. I imagine him sitting on the balcony of the other side of the house, with a glass of wine in his hand, staring into the sunset. Just enjoying his time. Ignoring the fact that the night will eventually come. Even for him night will in a not so distant future start to fade away. But he is fine with that. He had his life and finally understood that the meaning of life itself is not to life at always 100 percent.
So he just stares to the horizon and from time to time let his imagination cross the borders of the horizon. And I guess he has a almost unnoticeable smile on his face…
Yt,
Gunnar
BackiZ: Ah, so you’re the one who did that! Yes, I saw it on the blender.org gallery several months ago, and I really liked it, and still do. How did you do those waves, splashing against the rock? (And don’t worry about hijacking my thread, as I’m doing that right now;))
gunnarstahl: Wow, thank you for that description! I wish I was there now:) (I guess when you make an image, you have to have been looking at it for a long time during its creation, so you don’t always allow your mind to wander as much as it could…)
yeah it was in the gallery too, thanks. About the splashing waves, it’s fairly simple trick. I drew a black/white foam image (just rough pixels) in the shape of the coast (so a white C-shape in a black image). I projected that with an empty on the waves till it fitted and set it to ‘add’. That’s for the white color.
To get the splash effect you only have to smudge or smear those pixels out. You can even do inside blender (image editor, click the pen icon, press c for the paint tool and select smear).
As last you can paint some extra water droplets by making, for example, a cloud texture with high contrast. Use that a brush and you’re done.
I hope that was clear enough
Cya,
BackiZ
Thanks:), yeah, it was pretty clear. The only thing I’m not sure I understand is ‘projecting it onto the waves with an empty’. I know the concept you’re talking about, but I didn’t know you could do that in blender:confused:. How is it done? (Ha ha, going totally off topic in my own thread.)
sorry for my late response, I was on vacation :).
Simply set the texture to the object channel instead of orco. (don’t forget to fill in the name of the empty and to click the object button). You might have to try before you know where it is projected. But if you found it, you can easily control the image bij moving, scaling and rotating the empty.
Ok, thanks for the reply.
I was under the impression that ‘projecting’ from an empty was different than what you described (which I already knew). But thank you nonetheless, and I wouldn’t have thought of doing that for waves.