UTMC - Growth
polycounter lvl 11
So I've decided to toss my hat into the ring for this challenge. I'm taking one of the maps in the latest build and doing my take on an overgrown fortress sort of thing. I'd like to do all three screenshots we will see how much time I have idk.
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@Wez: no problem man!
As humans we tend to overshoot what's actually more realistic and go overkill on color/lights/darks. You might have looked at a photo like this and thought thats how light should work but you probably weren't aware that most camera shots like this blow out the highlights just like your picture. Cameras are not that good at handling bright light sources, and it's auto-correction does a poor job at guessing the values and color that we would see if we were actually standing in the place the photo was taken. Notice how the sky is also blown out to be completely white, this would never happen in nature.
If you want to convey your scene to be a more natural believable environment try a more subtle effect like this one
I think with all of the different spots of white you might be trying to convey scattered light from tree branches? But what you're missing is the break-up random spots, you need smaller pieces of your big-oval sun spots.
Try checking out reference of light being filtered by leaves or architecture mimicking that.
http://www.eikongraphia.com/?p=1334
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