This is the kind of image that drew me into 3D. I'm still chasing my dreams :)
I spent 5 weeks on this image, step by step mostly building procedural functions to create the terrains, adding several iterations to achieve a complex terrain which looked natural, afterwards eroded them in world machine 2
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Image uploaded on Jun 14, 2012. 29334 views.