[indigofan]

Very Cool!

Thanks Irinikus, just needs some lighting work, a parallax scrolling background and the towers in the background to be done.

[indigofan]

Added a few more bits the parallax scrolling mountains and the backdrop really put some pressure on the CPU.. This version took over 24 hours to render on the Fuel, ran it also on XP with a 2.28 Ghz / 2 GIG RAM machine and it took 1 1/2 hours.

[Irinikus]

Nicely done!

[indigofan]

Nicely done!

Thanks... While I was waiting I re-created the scene in Maya 2018, rendered the whole thing in about 30 mins on my MacBook Pro 2017 w. 16GB RAM.

[Irinikus]

Things have certainly advanced as the years have gone by!!!

[indigofan]

I can only image how blazing fast the new Mac Pros are and will be with a switch to Apple chips.. Makes me wish I was doing this work out in the wild and could get a company to buy one like I did back in the day with the SGI gear that I worked on.

Here's another pass done in less than 30 mins.

[indigofan]

Moved it over to Maya now that I finally got my batch rendering issue fixed... It's rendering a longer scene more or less 2X StudioTools performance by the looks of it.

[indigofan]

[Intuition]

This turned out pretty cool.

I love how you kept it thematically correct for Mead.