Rock in Grass

Artwork Works in Progress
#1

Hi, in order to enjoy a self-made rock texture, I created this simple scene.

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[SUP](It looks much nicer in full resolution, so I recommend that you click it.)
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However, it’s too simple to justify as a finished project. The area behind the Rock makes the whole scene look so empty, but I wanted to have an open field. Also it seems to me that the depth is not well definied in the picture, and I can’t tell why. I already tried to use some DoF and put a few plants in the foreground, which improved it, but I’m still not satisfied.

I think it’s an ok redner with effort and all, but if it was a real photo, I wouldn’t like it.
Do you have any suggestions on how to improve the scene?

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#2

the overall look is great. but the grass doesnt look like grass. where i live grass is a bunch of stripes with a sharp tip at the top. your grass looks like little bushes that comes in rows. looks more like moss.

#3

Yes, my fault, it shouldn’t be just grass, but a mix of grass and weed and very small bushes, like you can find in forests or fields that remained untouched for a long time.
One could say, it’s a fluffy kind of grass.

#4

The Rock in Grass is now a Scanned Rock in Fluffy Grass (with another fellow Rock).

I captured the Rock yesterday using Autodesk ReMake and 44 Photos (doesn’t really work for closeups).
Then I chose a lower camera angle and cropped the top and bottom a bit.

A smaller rock and some bushes have been added on the left side to eliminate empty space. I also reduced the particle amount for more variation in the grass, but it’s still not small enough.

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#5

Verygpod, although the grass resembles miniature trees, making the rocks seem like mountains. How did you create such detailed and believable textures?

#6

Ah, I see it. I should probably throw in more small stuff for definition of scale.
The Rock on the second image is 3D scanned using Autodesk ReMake. It has a free version.
I have my own Rock textures, too but I suck at sculpting and motivating myself to learn it. You can see that in the first image. However I was pretty convinced that this rock looks realistic, until I saw the scanned one.
The texture on the first one is just one tileable texture with normal and Specular map. For a more realistic result, I would mix it with another rock texture randomly and put a Moss texture on top, depending on the normals.