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Something for the weekend - Part 57 - Snow

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
February 1, 2019
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Hi

Many in the northern hemisphere will have seen some snow this year. So I thought we should have a snowy scene as a starter image this week.

I've made the empty scene in Blender (the distant mountains are real). What will you now add to the image so that it tells us a story?

As always, anything goes as long as it meets the forum rules on decency, copyright etc.

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Have fun

Dave

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jane-e

Community Expert

Pourquoi?

Je ne sais pas.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Now that is some shadow, Jane.

joanH

Inspiring

Here is the other side of the road. JH

jane-e

Community Expert

joanh22203655 wrote
Here is the other side of the road.

The grass is always greener on the other side, right, Joan?

joanH

Inspiring

So right!

Jacob Bugge

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Quadruple bipolar roadshow, and a few bits more.

Trevor.Dennis

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Jacob, does that polar bear use the same tanning salon as Donald Trump?

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Well, Trevor, strange things come to light these years; a while ago I saw something about Yeti research suggesting a rather close relation. By the way, the polar artist duo still have a somewhat oily appearance from before the mutiny (unchanged by the rest by the waterfall).

jane-e

Community Expert

It's a beautiful day for a bike ride on a country road.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Jane,

And a real bike(r), with a shadow and all.

Jacob Bugge

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Trevor.Dennis

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I like the graphic Jacob. Did you design it specifically for your gag? The nearest I can get from the text is

The first gringo broke the border fence on January 31, 2020.

The reward is 20,000 pesos for each illegal immigrant caught

escaping the climate change.

Jacob Bugge

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You have the text right (Google seems to favour the US date format for some reason), Trevor.

The graphic at the bottom is the coat of arms of the country with the flag colours shown at its bottom (the flag consists of the three stripes with the coat of arms in the central white stripe), taken directly from Wikipedia.

Gag?

Ussnorway7605025

Legend

Rista12

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Trevor.Dennis

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I do love to see free hand painting Rista. I'm not going to guess what the flowers are, because if Nancy happens by this thread, she'll roast me for my hopeless knowledge of flora. Do snowdrops come in a purple flavour?

When I was hunting for a Bigfoot picture, I couldn't help but think that people dressing up in a furry suit, to fake these pictures, were taking a big risk. All it would take is one redneck with a rifle, and the fake Bigfoot would be dead meat.

Rista12

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Trevor.Dennis wrote
Do snowdrops come in a purple flavour?
I wouldn't be at all surprised. The local market sells green roses.
But these are spring crocus, purple to blue. Yellow ones are usually called fall crocus. I'm sure your compatriots must have migrated them along with themselves. They do grow through the snow, if available, which is not anywhere around me.

Rista12

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I have trouble even messing it up. The texture is so perfect, it's difficult to find a handle for messing.

jane-e

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It’s like when a cake is so beautiful that no one is willing to cut into it!

davescm

Author

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I'll mess it up first then :

There - now fill your boots !

Dave

Trevor.Dennis

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Dave, the scene is better than real life. It would be a shame to mess it up. I have a couple of ideas (on top of the rotated canvas I emailed) so I guess messing it up is what we are going to do. I feels kind of wrong though, as that is so perfect as it is.

davescm

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Cheers Trevor - now go for it. It is there to be used, or abused

Dave

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Anonymous

Wonderful render Dave, how did you create the snow?

davescm

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Thanks Jane & Ged.

The snow is a plane (actually 3 - one for teh foreground and one for each snow "hill" with a surface texture using a combination of:

a. Noise texture to control a mix of diffuse and transparent shaders

b. Subsurface scattering

c. A displacement map fed into the new displacement nodes (I used 2.8) to give the tyre tracks. I used this in conjuntion with adaptive subdivision so that fine detail is used where the camera can see it but without going over the top with vertices.

Dave

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Anonymous

Blender 2.8 is soooooo different to 2.79, love the new interface but I'm lost trying to find all the things I do in 2.79, suppose it will take time, seems very stable for a beta.

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