For those that don't know, Terragen is a 3D modeling program for generating realistic terrain and scenery. As you might be able to tell, it has awesome water rendering power, which will be even better with Terragen 2 (project name: TGD) which currently has an estimated release date of sometime at the end of 2005. It's been used for several not-so-big movies. Other movies such as the Lord of the Rings Series use similar programs that the developers them selves generally make. These are some of my newer images that turned out the best. They are in order of date (new to old). You can just click on the thumbnails to expand the images. All of these images are 1024 x 768 pixels (most monitors are set to that size), so if you would like to use them as a background, or just for keeps, click the thumbnail so you are now viewing the larger file. Then right click on the image and go to "Save Image As" and save it to where you want to.
Glass Water
About: I made this for one of our Youth Sundays. It turned out to be a nice background for worship (putting the lyrics up). I don't have much to say about it. It's just some random island in the middle of the "ocean" which is perfectly still.
Sandbar
About: This is another one of my favorites. I was actually working on this to try something different. I was going to Photoshop in a land bridge, but it didn't look too good or realistic so I just took it away, and walla!
Red Sunset
About: This is another cool one. I like how the mountains sort of silhouted in the background. That happened by random chance. I think I may work with the water and textures on this one. It has some good potential.
Fall by The River Night
About: This is my absolute favorite Terragen render I've made yet. It's another version of the one you see below. The water looks good, the sun is in a great place, setting in between the mountains, the textures look really cool with those ovals on the top of the mountains. I rendered this one for a contest again. The theme was scenery at dusk.
Fall by The River
About: More water! I like using water alot, otherwise it seems kind of boring. This is one of my favorites (scroll up to see a better version). I spent alot of time on the textures and I think they came out quite nice. There is a problem though: occasionally with Terragen, the edge of the water can look fake. As you can see, the left edge of the water is straight and squarish. I fixed this in the other version, just be increasing the depth of the water so you don't see this.
Cave
About: Creative aren't I? Yea, I don't put much thought into my titles. Anyway, this one was suppoused to be a cave, but because of the lighting it looks more like just an overhang. Since Terragen lacks the capability to do this (until the release of Terragen 2) I had to use Photoshop for it a bit. If you have a good eye, maybe you will be able to see it.
Night River
About: Surprise surprise. Another variation of the White River scene you saw earlier. I actually rendered this as a night scene for a contest.
White River Sunset
About: As you can see, this is just a variation of my other river picture below. Someone gave me the idea to change around the colors a bit, so I did.
White River
About: This was one of my first, good quality images. Other ones had bad skins and textures, as well as atmospheres and just looked horrible compared to this. I used several techniques to try and make the water look a bit iced over. It worked- somewhat.