Absolutely looks real. You couldn't get a better shot from a trailer aircraft. Very nice.

Jimbob

Well done this looks great. I agree with Jimbob, looks completely real.

I love the storm clouds. The angle of the plane is excellent too. Very realistic! Nice work.

Looks real enough! Everything is done prefectly!

Nice job. It could be a great reminder of flight 447.

Nicely done, Peter. :o)

Pleasure to see your work ... as always.

If I may be so bold, might have been tempted to digitally paint in some very faint contrails, emerging from just below the wings/engines themselves.(To suggest some turbulence, perhaps, as well?)

Remarkably well-matched, the two images ... that of the storm and plane ... although, seems a tad static? As presented to us? And therein, lies my one minor and lone caveat.

That nonsense of mine aside, I really enjoy this piece. Reminds me of a fav album/disk's front cover/artwork of Mike Oldfields'. That of "Five Miles Out".

/\ Image linked to above, is a bad scan. Still, the mood and feel is very reminiscent to my mind and eyes to that of your visual presentation here.

Thanks for sharing this one with us. I like it a lot. :o)

+favs for me.

purmusic, you missed the second thing I left out, the heat signature trail from the engines which blur the clouds behind a bit. I left out the contrails because I don't know how to animate them realistically, but I simply forgot the heat sig. It's all a big learning curve.

Oh, and of course it's static, It's one frame from over 300

One last note. This is not a composite shot. It is a straight render with NO Photoshop work at all. The final images were rendered in Vue 7 Extreme's internal render engine.

"It's all a big learning curve."

/\ True say, Peter ... for me, too.

And an oversight on my part, with respect to the origins of your piece here. 'Static' issue ... now resolved. :o)

And 'heat signature', aside from the aforementioned and suggestion of inclusion of contrails, was the phrasing and terminology I was searching for, but ... could not find in my current caffeine-depleted state.

/\ Just kidding around a bit there, albeit there is some truth behind my words ...

(*goes off to pour a good good cup of joe, with real cream of course ...*)

;o)

Hey there Peter! Long time since you've been here. Have missed your creations very much. And reality is it here! I would never have known it was created by you...but then, I don't know much about planes. But I DO know about clouds..and that is just gorgeous. It really looks as if you are in a plane behind this one, taking photos..wonderfully done my friend. Verena

Sometimes renders look better than the real thing, this is one such case.

Enjoyed the realistic post very much. The comments were also enjoyable.

VFS-TicK