How to create eye-catching images with a simple scene and composition? This should be a problem that most designers have encountered. Today, follow Arthur Neveu with the editor to see the visual process of landscape and architecture of the French Les Davids distillery that he completed in two days, and perhaps you will find some answers.
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Overall introduction of the project
The party A of the Les Davids winery project in France asked for the integration of the landscape architecture with the natural elements of winemaking.
The technology of the project scenario was simple, so Arthur only took two days. It is mainly for data collection and research on the first day, and 3D creation and rendering using 3DS Max and Corona on the second day. The whole process is also simple, and the final image is also not post-production using PS.
Photo of the completion of the French Les Davids winery
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Collect reference materials
Arthur likes the atmosphere of the sky between the dark, because in that atmosphere, the rest of the scene is in the shadows and the buildings are highlighted. For example, here are two images from MIR and SPRA.
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As mentioned earlier, Arthur wanted the visual impact of the image to depend on the light and the framing, so he tested it with different HDRIs to create the best "almost even darkness, upward glow" atmosphere. All tested HDRIs came from HDRI Haven.
In addition to HDRI illumination, adding spotlights introduces more detail into the "Lighting" section.
Throughout the test, Arthur emphasized the image on the vertical frame, with the upper limit aligned with the first third of the frame in the composition.
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3D modeling
The land of the project consists mainly of two parts: the surrounding landscape and the vineyards. As shown in the following figure:
Trees are from MaxTree's 16 plant and tree models, and by default, the leaves of each plant have hue variations, so there's no need to make too many parameter changes, but to reduce rendering time, Arthur removed bump maps and displacement maps.
The vine's model comes from the website https://www.nouvellemesure-lab.com/, which offers three different shapes to facilitate repetitive operations. The scattering tool used is CoronaScatter.
Apply tree scattering on the global terrain and indicate boundaries to CoronaScatter via CoronaDistanceMaps in Surface Scattering.
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Texture and material
The floor is laid from RD-Textures for large surfaces, while the UVW Randomizer feature allows for repeated random mixing over the entire vine length, as shown in the image below:
The façade mainly scatters a photograph of a building taken into 3D with a resolution of 2500×334 pixels, and in order to make their overall effect more harmonious, diffuse reflection and reflection need to be used in Corona. Because the building is relatively far from the camera, there is no need to dwell on details.
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lamplight
The lighting comes from HDRI Haven's Cedar Bridge 16k, providing global and diffuse illumination.
He used disc lights to achieve the effect of projecting light into a small area, and during this operation, he needed to make sure that the Directionaly value was set between about 0.7 and 1, and that the shape of the projection could be changed by controlling the size.
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Post-production
Arthur didn't do much, using only the three parameters of corona VFB, the others are default values, as shown in the following figure.
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