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Member : ThomdeG

Title	:	After Man
Name	:	Thomas de Groot
Country	:	Netherlands
Email	:	####################
Webpage	:
Topic	:	The Lost City (March)
Copyright	:	Agreed - 2009-04-12 15:16:14
JPG file	:	pw-1239545774-After_Man.jpg
Renderer Used	:	POV-Ray 3.7 beta 32
Tools used	:	Poser7; IC; GeoControl; Arbaro
Render Time	:	5 hours 13 minutes
Hardware Used	:	HP Pavillion Media Center m7490.nl-a; Pentium D 2x3GHz

Image description

After the disappearance of Man, Nature returns to business-as-usual. On the scale of the solar system’s evolution, Man is but a small interlude, soon forgotten, soon replaced. His works will gradually merge and disappear under a cloak of indifferent forgetfulness.

Description of how this image was created

The GeoControl program was used to generate the landscape with the ruins and the background. The complete view is a mosaic of seamless height_fields. Poser provided the animals and the water plants, while Arbaro generated the trees. The old vegetate.inc utility (1999) by Mark Wagner, updated to my needs, was used to distribute the water plants.

A note on the sky. The sky is composed of media clouds, following a code by Abe Madey. It was rendered separately as a very large image. Using the IC utility by Ive, the image was exported in .exr format to be used in a HDRI environment. Finally, the resulting image was projected as a spherical map in the present scene, which was rendered with POV-Ray 3.7 beta 32.

General statistics
No of ratings	:	13
Min. overall rating	:	18 (6 / 6 / 6)
Max. overall rating	:	58 (19 / 19 / 20)
Sum of rating	:	495 / 780
Date uploaded	:	2009-04-01 15:38:54

Specific details

Note: The maximum value below is misleading as the voting system has changed.
If the member votes for all the entries and has created one him/herself, there is an
automatic 20/20/20 score added to the value (This encourages all members who enter to vote).

Rating type

Min

Max

Sum

Out of

Artistic

170

260

Concept

152

260

Technical

173

260

Overall

495

780

Comments by members when rating this image

1.	29-04-2009	Impressive landscape.
2.	27-04-2009	Very nice image. The scale of the wolves to horses and water plants to wolves seems a bit off to me. I think the colors of the foreground with the bird should be a bit more saturated to "read" as closeup.
3.	25-04-2009	The distant elements look wonderful. The things closer to the camera sort of lose it a little. What sort of aspect are you working with. This seems wider than 16x9 even.
4.	21-04-2009	Perhaps better textures on the foreground rocks.
5.	18-04-2009	Not your best shot, Thomas. Horses too small, wolves too big, water lilies likewise; landscape too blocky (especially at the banks) - even traces of artificial structures shouldn't be that regular.
6.	17-04-2009	the ground texture is a little bit plastic for me

After Man