Galilee Test Renders

"Imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery" Anne Shirley

Those are the lines spoken by one of my favorite literary characters, Anne Shirley, from one of Lucy Maud Montgomery's many Novels. Happily I now find the greatest joy I have is imitating the work of the greatest and most amazing artist of them all. Never ending, always creating, his level of perfection-always beyond human reach, his love always right there - God.

Well here are test renders of Galilee. I finally was able to get the DEMs of the area. Because of the military unrest there. The Digital Elevation Maps are very hard to get. I don't know why they are even called DEMs. they are really black and white displacement maps. Anyway. I basically took the DEMs into another program I have called Geo Control which has great fractals for terrain creation, then created a displacement tiff file and brought that into Vue 7 . Untimately, God willing I will front ptject in Maya and add the crowd displacement and other elements I need. Oh the fun!!!


Here an image I used for reference of the Sea of Galilee with the Golan Heights in the background.





So here's the terrain I'vee created so far. My goal is to have basic renders on set for the green screeen shot for camera placement. The grass still need to be worked on and I need trees. But I was really focusing on the terrain.

Here's the opposite view of that shot. The red cone is the Camera location and the location for the main character on the top of the hillside.


The next two shots are test images for close ups for images of hands passing baskets of fish and bread etc. The actors will have to be lit for shadows in production so all this needs to be worked out now.




Of course the lighting is not right. It will be sunset and the images need Radiosity and a whole lot more, but this is a beginning.