New art, "Last Light". All made in Blender, composited with RapidRAW.

Took around 50 hours in total, with a stonking 12hr render time and maxing out all 24GB VRAM 😅 but at least the rendering kept my flat warm.

Made with True-Terrain, True-Sky, True-VDB and the KitBash3D Valhalla asset pack.

Always keen for feedback to help me improve - would love to hear your thoughts, positive or negative.

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@tomerlandsen Are the lights in the leaves reflections?

I'm not quite sure what's going on there, but the harsh glare from shiny feels "noisy" in the calmness of the image as a whole. Given the light from the sunset and the fires, I wouldn't expect reflections that bright and sharp.

@yora Yeah, I think they stem from the snow textures I added on the branches. I tried so many things to try and get those harsh lights to fade but couldn't find a solution 😅 getting rid of the snow textures entirely did clear them, but at the cost of contrast in the dark trees.

Didn't help that the render was noisy AF, with fireflies all over the shop from the fires, embers, bright sun with dark foreground, subsurface scattering on the snow, etc