Yoshi Island

So, I've been learning to use Vue 6, which is a pretty cool program. I'm thinking of using it to make a better looking background to one of my old renders from my Texture and Lighting 2 class. Anyways, I was just playing around with it and one noise option for the procedural terrain made mountains that reminded me of the backgrounds in the Yoshi games and probably in the Mario games.

Above, is my first render. I thought the trees were too big. I wanted it to feel like a bigger island. And it seems a bit too bright.

This is a render of the other side of the mountain, which is why it's darker. Just edited the material/texture a little bit. I really like using Vue cause it's node-based and it takes me back to the days of Maya's Hypershade and Shake. Changed the trees to evergreen/fir, but it's still too big. It's hard to tell the scale of the trees when different types aren't consistent. And I'll put back the palm trees on the edges of the island. These are just high-quality test renders.
Well, there's a free Personal Learning edition of Vue on their site. Check it out here!