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Published: 2007-04-28 01:11:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 3919; Favourites: 23; Downloads: 411
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Description As we looked out the bow of our ship to only see a glimmer float down from the sky above. It was a beautiful moment in time but a few moments later a sharp burning sensation graced our skin knocking us to the floor.

Created with 3dsmax and Photoshop
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Comments: 26

Danman87 [2007-12-18 22:45:45 +0000 UTC]

Very nice picture!

The ocean looks pretty realistic overall, very close to photorealism already. The water surface looks quite believable (3D Displacement mapping?), only the specular reflection of the sun seems a bit too much. The depth of field effect is really impressive, seems like it doesn't just blur in the distance, I sense some grain as well... although I could be wrong . However, it adds a lot of realism to the overall impression.

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Pellevinken [2007-05-12 11:47:30 +0000 UTC]

It's a very nice picture, however it feels too compressed, as in low quality but high res. I.e. the jpeg compression is visible, and if that's not the case, it looks as something similar is going on.

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C-Lefty [2007-05-07 00:19:04 +0000 UTC]

nice edgen... clear and good texture... i also like the lighting

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edgen In reply to C-Lefty [2007-05-07 17:29:17 +0000 UTC]

thank you.

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EnkilTheForgottenOne [2007-05-03 01:38:21 +0000 UTC]

-starts randomly humming the new Halo overture-

I know they're not probably related but it reminded me of the white light from the trailer.

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Lone----Wolf [2007-05-01 21:32:39 +0000 UTC]

That's quite a beautiful landscape!! Sometimes I have dreams about the same story you wrote in your comment!

The Lone----Wolf

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edgen In reply to Lone----Wolf [2007-05-02 17:34:08 +0000 UTC]

Thank you! It's a very simple image, but hopefully powerful. Good luck with your stories.

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Lone----Wolf In reply to edgen [2007-05-02 21:21:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks!

The Lone----Wolf

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XGC-Ronin [2007-04-28 20:18:17 +0000 UTC]

Great job! I love the water and the light in the background is really cool.

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edgen In reply to XGC-Ronin [2007-04-30 19:36:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you. Makes me wish I lived on an island. I'm like 30 minutes from the ocean and I don't get out enough to really see it.

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Nik-Skyfly [2007-04-28 15:06:09 +0000 UTC]


Nicely!

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edgen In reply to Nik-Skyfly [2007-04-30 19:36:07 +0000 UTC]

Thankly.

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LeMarquis [2007-04-28 14:40:13 +0000 UTC]

Will you put these up as wallpapers please...

LM

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edgen In reply to LeMarquis [2007-04-30 19:35:55 +0000 UTC]

It is a wallpaper. 1280x1024. Just click the image and it should go full size. Let me know if that doesn't work and i'll send you a link.

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LeMarquis In reply to edgen [2007-05-01 11:12:42 +0000 UTC]

hmzz it looks great, very clean and serene...

What will i do with a 1280*1024 when I'm working on a 1600*1200 resolution though. I could blow it up but not to that size though.

Keep up the good work. Love your music by the way.

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Pellevinken In reply to LeMarquis [2007-05-12 11:45:50 +0000 UTC]

1280x1024 is a very, very common size nowadays with the majority
of monitors being or going to be 5:4 ratio. Not many people use 1600x1200. (Which is 4:3 ratio)

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Xaiphin [2007-04-28 09:23:42 +0000 UTC]

its beautiful, I grew up by the sea so I think you've got it spot on, I havent seen the sea in two, almost three years now, so im happy you made suc a cool piece

^.^ you gets a hearty balloon!

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edgen In reply to Xaiphin [2007-04-30 19:35:20 +0000 UTC]

THanks for the hearty balloon.

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Xaiphin In reply to edgen [2007-04-30 21:19:23 +0000 UTC]

^^ you're welcome

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yade-art [2007-04-28 09:09:37 +0000 UTC]

I love the view! Ah, water ....

Maybe I'd add some more depth blur, but not sure how much that'd take away from the overall picture..

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edgen In reply to yade-art [2007-04-30 19:34:52 +0000 UTC]

Depth blur probably would be nice and I actually tried that out, but I couldn't get a good 'feel' for it, so I just decided to keep it as is. Thanks for the kind words

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yade-art In reply to edgen [2007-04-30 22:33:55 +0000 UTC]

Yeah it's difficult to get the right amount.. I do love the picture though. Also saw you added it to myspace, very nice.

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ziffy88 [2007-04-28 02:04:03 +0000 UTC]

ah nuts they nuked the whales again...jerks...cool pic

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edgen In reply to ziffy88 [2007-04-30 19:34:02 +0000 UTC]

Whale's are just getting in the way.

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FanatiX [2007-04-28 01:19:56 +0000 UTC]

clean...a little bit too clean on my oppinion...

but i think you focused on the textures wich are pretty realistic, then the nice idea and the surrounding story -and- to repeat it the nice texture detail impresses me...!



i love waterscapes

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edgen In reply to FanatiX [2007-04-30 19:33:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much for the fav. that is what's crazy about the piece is that it's so dang clean and in the distance chaos comes barreling down at you.

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