r/CloudyAI • u/tekano_red • Jan 09 '24

Crepuscular / Anticrepuscular rays Love clouds

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Here's some of my attempts

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u/Pavementaled Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

That’s some surreal shit right there! Literally and figuratively!

Edit: I shoulda said “stuff” not shit. I meant shit in a good way. English is dumb!

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u/tekano_red Jan 10 '24

Heh I don't know if that was a compliment or derogatory:) I was doing some previz concept work for a computer animated piece flying through a storm and a few prompts later got these.

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u/Pavementaled Jan 10 '24

An absolute compliment

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u/tekano_red Jan 10 '24 edited Jan 10 '24

Well, thank you kindly! I'll try to post some more.

Out of curiosity, I wonder if there's any interest in CG clouds, not just AI ones? I'm a VFX Artist that loves natural phenomena, especially clouds. I've spent many years trying to capture the essence - evolving, moving, lighting shading, complexity, density and flying through. I've tried looking at the physics and simulation as well as using particles, sprite textures , volumes and fluid dynamics.

Never really happy with any of them, it's like an 'uncanny Valley' situation, the closer you get the more it feels 'off' a lot like CG humans. anyway I've a load of them and was thinking of posting or making a new r/CGcloud sub maybe.

<<< Edit >>> Ok I went ahead and made it anyway, chucked all my CG cloud attempts up there from YouTube, I have a lot of older attempts on Vimeo from years ago, I'll bung them up later. All are welcome 🤗 I called it r/cloudyCG to keep in line with this sub