Spring on the Hill

My entry to the Spring Weekend Challenge. I used three layers of grass for short, medium and long grass lengths. After I added AAO it looked really good. The wide shot was the contest entry, and the HD was an alternative. (HD was sized down because I couldn’t upload it otherwise.)

edit: Newer renders farther down.

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Good, especially for a weekend challenge.
If you would like to take it a bit further, here are suggestions:

-Take that hint of neon out of the grass.
-Look up reference pictures of sunrises to get the brightness/colour right. At the moment your sun looks kind of cartoony. I would go for something like this:
http://mdb8.ibibo.com/07453616c7465645f5fb066eb0ce2bb9c4bb0b1561b92c5722e997ac3ea9c2fd1e60196c04af388a1330fb84b8f5a54f9a355a1a3.jpeg/nature-sunrise-sky-clouds-grass.jpeg

Thanks for the feedback, I definitely agree about the grass.

Who can’t resist changing a finished piece of work. :smiley:
I figured out how to make the grass look much better (although I’m not sure if the neon is completely gone) and I also changed the sun, hopefully it looks better. The first render has some compositing and the second is identical except without compositing.

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