Something a bit off the beaten path....

[Deflaminis]

Got to try my hand at something a bit different on my latest project. Figured I'd share what I came up with. Had a blast doing it.

Thanks,
AJ

[Pixelcon]

Hehe cool! Nice work

[flino2004]

Great!! like it a lot..the flag maybe needs more work.

[Deflaminis]

Agree about the flag, early versions had bump and more detail. Client really wanted it simplified. Maybe I could paint some more folds in...

Thanks for the kind words fellas!

[Bruce Hart]

I like it. Nice idea Deflaminis

[Deflaminis]

Thanks for the feedback! I updated the flag to have more interesting folds. Thanks again for taking a look all!



AJ

[Crayox13]

Cool! Like it. Buoy looks very realistic.

[3LP]

Looks great mate!

Just out of curiosity, you rendered it as a pano "little planet" or you modeled a sphere and rendered with a wide angle lens like 25mm.
Just to know how you managed to make the water scaling if you did render it as a sphere, and not as a pano.

Cheers
Stan

[Deflaminis]

Hello!

For a sphere those reflections would be sort of impossible since the light source is behind the planet. Instead what I did was render a pano and then warp it into a sphere shape, so it 'looks' spherical but it really isn't. Then I warped all the elements as well so I could paint over the reflection pass with a bit of color to match the background on the bottom right.

Thanks for the kind words!
AJ

[3LP]

Great,
That's exactly what I thought you did, thanks to confirm!

Cheers

[Deflaminis]

Sure thing! I owe so much of my knowledge to this community the least I can do is pay it forward. Love your website too, btw.

Thanks again all,
AJ