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did you take all those pics snowman?? stunning. what location were they taken??
i would give anything to go on a holiday like that.. i wouldnt even know where and how to start to plan for something like that..
Sometimes the lights give shadows which also reduce the single colour effect. The human eye is hard to fool. If we saw someones face and it was all the same colour we automatically think it's not right. Like a manikin in a shop. Like wise when you have spent time in the bush you have the same eye for detail in rocks, trees etc...Yes it does look home made but so do alot of store brought backgrounds, exo terra for example are made very shoddy (can see the foam through paint).
Mine doesnt look like a Universal Rocks background but with it costing me under $20 im happy with how it came up.
Rick
What you are trying to get people to accomplish is not possible (have you actually worked with these products before?!)... Most people are using render products which need to be sealed (most commonly pondtite), your so called perfection goes out the window once pondtite is applied due to the glossy shine and dulling any colour (if you can prove me wrong, please I'm all open to furthering my skills). Take this wall for example which I used a mixture of at least 10 shades of colour which just ended up looking like a royal mess...
Had your post been along the lines of "inspiration for colour designs and landscapes" I wouldn't have bitten, but by saying people need to try to be more realistic because they look aweful I'm not going to stand for. The work required to make rendered backgrounds takes at least a week for sculpting, drying and sealing and people shouldn't have to come on here and read that their effort looks aweful.
Just my opinion
And if you take a latex mold of real rock formations you are really cooking with gasI think to avoid the shiny look fibreglass or latex is the way to go as it is already sealed and can be painted to suit.
I believe that is how they make "universal rock" backgrounds.And if you take a latex mold of real rock formations you are really cooking with gas
Nope no pictures yet. I'm still not happy with the results. They need to be perfect before I will use them. Until then I wont have any backgrounds in my enclosures. I'd be too embarrassed to have something I am not 98% happy with. Perhaps throw some OCD in with my aspergers lol.Hey snowman lets see some fake wall you have done.any pics?
I saw a lot of sections that would be perfect for a 1200x600. But like anything you have to frame the section almost like taking a photo.These rock however are in a national park. So I wouldn't take a mold of them Termite mounds would also be cool.The biggest problem with taking a mould is the nice looking formations that Snowman has in his photos are too large to fit in an enclosure and if you looked at a small part that would fit in an enclosure there would be little detail and contrast that you get from the entire rock face.
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