joar — Making progress in blender

The last two days I have been following a blender tutorial at Blender Cookie.

This is my first go at it, click on the images for higher resolution.

You can see that the background is a bit grainy, it is more obvious if you view the large image. That’s because my skydome (a large hemisphere with texture on the inside) texture did not have high enough resolution.

I downloaded a new skydome texture, this time with a resolution of 8591x3912px.

Much better! But still, the balloons have some quite dark patches.

Increasing the global light of the render, et voila!

The clouds are a bit overexposed, but it’s good for a training render.