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.)
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:
Who can’t resist changing a finished piece of work.
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.