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The footbridge modeled in Modo, the rest of the scene assembled and rendered in Carrara. This is the same scene as my last image, but rendered from a different POV.]]> Sat, 02 Aug 2008 03:31:43 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/651203

A clear stream in the forest. A few items modeled in Modo but the rest is all Carrara. I used the C6 displacement painting feature to add the ripples to the water - much faster and nicer than using Carrara's displacement channel of the shaders.]]> Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:27:51 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/642798

My latest Carrara scene. More work on the trees has been done - hopefully the result is more realism. Used a volumetric cloud to create the mist. Worked in Photoshop for colour correction and lighting adjustments.]]> Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:30:26 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/580104

The old country lane, lost in a forest somewhere.

The fence and some plants were modeled and UV mapped in Modo, the trees were created with Carrara and so was the layout and render. Compositing and colour correction done in Photoshop.]]> Sat, 05 Jan 2008 23:08:17 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/576258

Just a little jetty on a forgotten river somewhere.

The jetty and some plants were modeled and UV mapped in Modo, the trees were created with Carrara and so was the layout and render. Compositing and colour correction done in Photoshop.]]> Mon, 24 Dec 2007 03:24:38 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/606806

No-one knows who built the towers, or how, but when a breeze blows from the south-west one can distinctly hear the wind in the towers producing the sound of 'Ode to Joy' by Beethoven.

My entry for the NVArt artspace competition

Modeled and rendered in Carrara 6.1, composited in Photoshop.]]> Mon, 10 Mar 2008 21:21:42 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/576913

Same scene as The Jetty but rendered from a different perspective. This one shows the junction of the two rivers of Harpwood County.]]> Wed, 26 Dec 2007 23:43:56 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/565337

Just been putting a lot of time into modeling and distributing the vegetation to create in my head and in my computer the sort of place I'd like to visit.

Some modeling was done in Modo but the scene layout and render is all Carrara.]]> Sun, 25 Nov 2007 11:21:50 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/564072

A just a quick render of a part of a WIP on landscape I'm working on. Grass and Fir needles modeled in the Carrara vertex modeler. ]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2007 13:36:39 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/559385

My first real go at using GeoControl for terrain creation. A really nice application that I'm only just getting my head around. Also found myself banging my head against Carrara's 10,000 instance limit per replicator. Ended up having to use about 100 replicators to place enough trees on the landscape.]]> Thu, 08 Nov 2007 23:53:51 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/550474

This is a landscape I put together in Carrara. Spent quite some time working on the vegetation by modification of plants I'd already created for previous scenes. Added some Daz figures a bit of interest and used Carrara's new hair feature on them. The atmosphere and lighting was a pretty simple set-up with one distant light for the sun and ambient occlusion and background lighting to bring out the shadows.]]> Mon, 15 Oct 2007 13:29:56 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/535004

The first landscape I created with Carrara 6. The trees are modified from the some of the default supplied ones, the grass tufts were modeled in the vertex modeler and replicated all over the terrain. An ocean primitive was used for the stream and hair for the dandelions.]]> Fri, 31 Aug 2007 13:40:57 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/423464

A re-working of my "Dawn fjord" image. I've made some updates where suggestions were made such as the flat lights and the automobile monoculture. Of course I changed the season to winter and the time of day to early evening.

The cars are actually low poly models from the Carrara content CD modified by me and re-textured. But everything else is completely mine.]]> Mon, 30 Oct 2006 23:26:28 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/418679

An Autumn storm has passed by but is seen lingering at the head of the valley. On its way through it dusted the peaks with a light cover of snow.

An exercise in placing huge amounts of trees upon a landscape using Carrara's replicators. ]]> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:42:44 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/418618

My attempt at creating the lush look of a rainforest stream. I painted texture maps for all of the plant leaves but all the the other textures are procedural - like the mossy rocks and water.

Created in Carrara 5.1 Pro, composited and colour corrected in Photoshop.]]> Wed, 18 Oct 2006 01:52:43 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/416341

A landscape originally created for a competition on another site but the scene has since been heavily reworked and modelled.]]> Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:13:55 +0000 http://howiefarkes.cgsociety.org/gallery/416361

A forgotten stone bridge in the morning mist. Entirely created in Carrara 5.1 pro.]]> Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:37:00 +0000