Hey all!

Very excited about sharing this particular image. While working on the first part of the book, HE showed me how to add snow, using only the Blend texture. And that is also a tutorial in the first section.

Anyway, on Cycles it is now called the Gradient texture and I wondered if it would still respond similarly or possibly even better. While I wouldn't necessarily call it better, I definitely like the almost stylistic cartoony background approach to how this looks.

Hope you like it too:


This was Previewed at only 20 samples, so that shows, if you keep it simple, you only need a few passes. If your lighting gets more complex, I'd suggest going up to 200-500 (without caustics being active) from my limited experience with Cycles so far.

Have a great one!!

PS, I'd like to do a bit of a giveaway with this one. If anyone is interested in having this as a wallpaper, let me know via the contact page or Facebook and I'll render a FullHD version of it.

Thank YOU!!!!!!