[WIP] Grassy Jungle Cliff Composition

gastrop0d

Hi all, I've been working on an experimental project the last week or so to improve my environment art skills. It's a piece of jungle terrain viewed from a bird's eye perspective, like something you might see in a remastered RTS title. The piece has been constructed in Blender, rendered in cycles with terrain texturing work done in Substance Painter.

I've done my best to make something that looks interesting, but I'd like to get the your eyes and thoughts on it. I'm thinking the detail is not balanced and am concerned that its becoming noisy. I'm still pretty new and learning, so any advice you guys have I would greatly appreciate.

NOTE: I didn't create any of the base assets, I'm just using them to work on my compositional skills.

teodar23

Nice! It reminds me of crysis.
But the penumbra effect is too strong, imo.

gastrop0d

Thanks, good point about the shadows. I've sharpened them up, as well as clustered the trees together, added a ruined dish structure, added normal maps to the tree leaves, and changed the sky lighting: