Big River

I was fipping through an outdoors magazine the other day and got inspired to attempt a realistic outdoor 3d rendering. Last night I drew out some rough sketches of what I wanted to achieve, and today I built, textured, rendered, and composited the whole scene. I think the result (pictured below) came out quite nicely for a first go at it. To achieve the look, I modeled and textured the scene in Vue 5 Infinite, then did the render as a series of passes each possessing one characteristic of the scene (ie reflectivity, shadows, etc.) The final image was composited in Shake which is fastly becoming one of my favorite pieces of software.