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Re:The wow of water rendering by monk_e_boy on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @04:57AM (#9372932)
The render box is 27m x 12m, to my eye it looks like the box is about 3m X 1.5m from the size of the waves and how the water moves.

For me, it looks really fake. The swirls of water look more like smoke than water and the droplets splashing around look really gloopy almost like jam. Not to take anything away from the render, it is amazing.

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Re:The wow of water rendering by phireal on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @05:07AM (#9372960)
I don't know if the footage is at normal speed, it looks slightly slowed down to me, which would impart a sort of gloopy feel to the water. I wonder if speeding up the playback rate would increase the realism.

edit: OK, I downloaded it with youtube-dl and sped the playback rate up to 2.5x and the water looks more realistic with a faster rate.

edit2: I sped up the video and uploaded it back up to vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/124913873

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Re:The wow of water rendering by shalmanese on Tuesday April 14, 2015 @07:29AM (#9373397)
Look at the very end at the water pooling in the concave of the rock. It still looks gloopy and jammy, despite the faster speed.
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