Forest Pack Pro review

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It's a pleasure to present you our latest feature. French archviz artist Matt Guetta reviews Itoo Software's Forest Pack Pro for Max Underground: "... one of the easiest and most powerful plugins available for creating realistic vegetation environments." Read the review.

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by Chris - August 30, 2011 7:04 am

Thanks Matt for your effort and the good reading.

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by Jason Addy - August 30, 2011 3:33 pm

Great work Matt, a very informative review and nice test scene!

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by Hristo Velev - August 31, 2011 4:33 am

Cool review, I was curious about FPP :) Thanks!

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by Matt - August 31, 2011 3:16 pm

Thanks all, happy to see the review is useful.
If you’ve got specific questions, I’ll do my best to answer.

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by paulb - September 2, 2011 11:15 am

Thanks for the great review.

I love your test scene! I’m wondering if you’d share briefly a little of your lighting setup and post processing. It looks to have film noise and purple fringing and subtle atmospheric affects maybe?

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by Matt - September 3, 2011 2:30 am

@paulb: Thanks. For lighting setup, I used an HDR combined with a
V-RaySun, you can find a tutorial on Peter Guthrie’s blog. For
post-processing, I combined passes from a 32-bit Exr with Photoshop and
made some basic color corrections (Curves, Levels…).
The Atmospheric effect was made with a blue-tinted Z-depth pass. Finally
I added color correction (color balance…) and effects
(vignetting, chromatic aberration…) with MagicBullet PhotoLooks.

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