It looks very nice! I like the snow on the pine trees a lot One suggestion, the snow on the ground feels a bit hard, perhaps more sss? Otherwise very cool !
Thanks, glad you like it !
Yeah you know i felt that also, but thought i might get away with these settings… looks not this time ! Will try to add more sss and compose just SSS channel on top.
Real Nice. I assume you used hdri in vray dome light?
Possibly it’s the hard edged bump or displacement or whatever that makes the ground snow look hard. If the underlying geometry was much smoother like in your reference photo that might help to make the ground snow appear softer.
I’m very curious to know how you got the snow on the pine trees. Looks great. Can you describe how that was accomplished?
Yeah it is free corrected HDRI from no-emotion guys.
I will correct snow a bit today, will add SSS layer.
Snow on trees was quite long process. Low poly geometry and after that particle flow. You can check similar workflow here : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yu\_xgl4NYyM So i’ve done that on trees part by part, as my PC could not handle whole tree at once.
Cheers
Cold day…brrr! But seemingly warm inside…cozy! Perhaps a wisp of smoke from that stovepipe (well, I think it’s a stovepipe) to really sell it…
That’s a good idea
Yeah i miss a bit of that, though i had specle map which worked fine on shaderball, but here it is almost completely invisible. I think i did not have enough AA samples for them to be visible. Or maybe post killed it…
By the way i tried Stochastic but for some reason it did not work well with 2 blended SSS layers (thanks Grant Warwick for awesome lesson about that material !) - sparkles were invisible.
Looks like i had to cheat and add invisible light over snow area to bump this effect.
Hah thank you. Never thought that this might be interesting for someone
I might do a pack in near future if there will be couple of more people interested in buying this ?
Got you !
I will do a pack, let it be. I am thinking about couple of broadleaf trees and couple of Pine trees and maybe some shrubs. Will post later a link here
Very nice. Thanks for the link to the tutorial on using particle flow to get the snow on he trees. Involved process indeed. I would be happy to pay for a library of snowy pine trees versus spending that kind of time. Wish such a thing was available. Nicely done by you.
I think the ground bump or displace is still much too strong and not smooth enough. I am comparing to your reference image. The snow looks great but the ground looks like it was scoured by strong wind which would have blown the snow off he trees.
Possibly light the outside of the building a little bit brighter and rotate hdri a bit so one side is more distinct from the other. Turn down the inside light just a bit. Just my two cents. Overall super nice!
Thanks a lot for your comments, that is why i share image here - to see my mistakes. Though thing is that i am not sure i will return to this image, as it was done mostly driven by my mood in that moment - it was the first snowy day over here
Will start working on trees, than, looks like there is interest in that.
Will share the progress in separate thread, i think.
One suggestion, the snow on the ground feels a bit hard, perhaps more sss? Otherwise very cool !
