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Grove of the Ancients .

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GROVE OF THE ANCIENTS

"Night Elf" by Rejerico Alejandro.
Last night, In my dream, I saw a beautiful lady
Fierce, strong, with seductive body.
Her eyes was glowing in the dark
Like fire burning in the tree bark.

She have a purple skin, with bluish hair,
pointed ears, and she can run like a speed of air.
She was good at using bow,
her arrow can break your jaw.

She is the mighty warrior of the forest,
Guarding the nature from the fool intruders
No one can mess with her
Even she is a girl, her courage is similar to a roaring tiger.

After a few moments, I realized that I was dreaming.
No one can hear me, screaming.
Then, the beautiful lady said, "Come with me!"
"we will go to the world of immortality!"

Then, a strong moonlight struck at me.
giving the light of eternity,
and reminds me that your life isn't fantasy.
Then, the reality awakened me.

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It's been too long that I didn't make any terrain art, but now, I back in terraining :) Try to listen to this music and feel the forest fantasy theme :)
All constructive criticisms are accepted
 

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Well,i have to say:This is truly astonishing,i especially like the lighting. I'm afraid i can't really give you good feedback since i haven't been terraining in a long while so my skills are kinda rusted.
 
Please attach the picture next time.
A pleasant and refreshing terrain this is. 'been awhile since you've terrained something :)

Well although this is great there are a few things missing/to be fixed:
- ambient light, glow and light models required.
- it's a bit too bright for midnight. better fiddle with the fog color more.
- background trees and nightsaber reflections missing.
- position of light rays conflicting with each other, better correct that.
- better Center of Focus required, I get that it's a hunting/tranquil theme but it's rather blunt. I think that some kind of brazier/statue placed in the middle would do better.
- some scaling issues with the forest, midground/foreground one.
- I'd add some eerie fog around the water to give it more love and some nebula and cloud models in the water (the reflection is a bit too pronounced for the night theme).
- also some ruins scattered around to give it the feeling that it was previously inhabited .
 
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Move that pine further to the left, I hate those gaps between the edge and pines, and
pines make such nice frames for the terrain! :) And there are two tree behind the pine
that looks like they are exact copies of one another, same pitch, same size, I think you
should fix that too. Remember: A forest is organized chaos, but chaos nonetheless,
nothing should look "uniform."

I think Talavaj has better leaf-tree doodads too, especially for trunks, that tree trunk
on the right side looks... Awkward.

I also advice you add some sort of light-source or other, either rework the light from
above idea, with more glows and dark glows to make it seem more natural, or add a
lantern or something.

Actually, look into the black glow doodad altogether, it's hard to work with
but when it works it works wonders, especially for dark forests like this.
And some weird pink action happened when you darkened the terrain,
you might want to change that.

hard to work with but when it works it works wonders

I wouldn't want to have to repeat that quickly, twenty times over >.>
 
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