Bring a lunch?

I'm thinking.. breakfast, lunch and dinner.. and some snacks, from the looks of the height of that peak.


Nice work, Russ. :o)

That's a beauty! I will bring a lunch and my snowboard. lol.

Beautifully done Russ. tigs=^..^=

Exquisite imagery!!! Love the sky effects - appears that the planets are visible. Superb work!!!

Thank you everyone. I'm glad you liked it. Since shadows are critical to the piece, I guess I'll bite the bullet and make this my entry for the new contest of 'Shadows'.

I was going for stark & surreal here, but also cheerful and inviting. Built and rendered with Terragen 2. A low-angle sun & multiple cloud layers accentuate surface texture and suggest distance in the artificial terrain. Since everything is an approximate model of the real thing - clouds, earth, snow, the result is a somewhat cartoon-like look.

Wow! I'd love to ski that bowl on the left. If it were not for the colorful "moon" (or planet) I couldn't tell it from the real thing.

The beauty of the sky is bringing this to life and the effect is wonderfully done!

Gorgeous photo Russ. Good Luck in the contest.

Thank you very much, all of you. I really appreciate it.

Because the interface of Terragen 2 is so coarse, these things take weeks to build & proof with dozens of small test renders. I did the final large one here at 3200 x 1800 to see if it looked sharper when squeezed down onto a 2560 x 1440 monitor, like a high-rez photograph can. It probably wasn't worth the extra time spent computing it though. A little over 180 hours render time for this version, and my computer is no slouch either (8 data threads from 4 cores - it's like 8 computers working on the picture at the same time. And it's still slow.)

This is a wonderful scene Russ - quite magical.
In my dreams I shall bring skis and a rope and of course lunch to enjoy the beauty you expertly created :)

I have no head for heights, so I think I'd also take a mountain guide and a helicopter. :-)

I particularly like those half-seen planets, with the extra mystery and colour they bring.

Hope you do well in the contest, especially after all that modelling / rendering time!

Great render. I've done some myself with Terragen, if you care to browse my gallery. I almost enjoy the building process as much as the final image. Mine take about 30-45mins to render on a 10 year old PC. Must be a MUCH lower res than yours. Well done for your patience. Worth it!

Thank you all for the great comments. The renders take so long because I push the quality and anti-aliasing controls about as far as they'll go. Clouds too get the hi-rez treatment with no consideration for speed, just accuracy. For all the extra time it takes, it's only an incremental improvement though.

WOW! Needs it's own canvas!