The messenger!

[Heinvers]

Well, here's something I forgot to work on for some time.

No hate for the black glows and wanna-be reflection ;D

Edit: Updated given the tips from you.

 

[fladdermasken]

The world tree trunks don't actually lend much to it besides maybe the framing. And at this scale they are little more than monochrome blobs of texture smudge with sharp, rough edges. Try different tree models and show a little foliage. Maybe even tilt them a bit and hide part of the trunk outside the camera view.

i.e. rather than . (poor example, but enough to make the point)

This should also contrast better to the detailed foreground. And try and reconstruct the roots (which are actually nice) with e.g. tilted dead trees.

The water effect is this terrain's strong point.

 

[Blood Raven]

Looks freaking awesome! Reminds me of HOMM5 for some reason.
The background seems a little bit empty though, maybe you can add some more things like birds, one or two more ships or even one bigass ship for da king Maybe even something flying like a zeppelin... or a little island with something like a lighthouse or a ruin of one? Idk, but it's still fucking awesome. Great job

 

[Celaquil]

Dem black glows... Hideous.

Aside from what fladdy said, I think the foreground needs some love,
currently it looks a bit repetitive and boring, you've got some good
potential there. Save for that, this is a lovely piece, I especially like
the water. Good work, Hein.

 

[Heinvers]

Bump!

Updated.

 

[sonofjay]

Looks pretty good.

 

[fladdermasken]

The roots pretty much came out vines. I like it

 

[Heinvers]

It wasn't my initial intention but I thought I'd tag along with it. I'm still not very fond of the shadows though. That black glow model is darn tricky.

Thanks

 

[Mad]

Really beautifull, Heinvers :>

 

[Celaquil]

vines

Anyway, yeah.

This is turning out great.
Good bloody work, hein.

 

[Veritas 117]

Good bloody work, hein.

I have to agree. This is looking pretty great. One of your best IMO.