LLD300
A3-Filmic
For this assignment, I want to explore the theme of Solarpunk to go with my Filmic look. Solarpunk is a fictional yet possible to come reality, that envisions a positive, sustainable future, characterized by renewable energy resources, harmonious connection between nature and technology. It is an optimistic outlook on humanity's abiltity to address environmental and social challenges.
So the composition that I want to capture is to have a lusious landscape with floating windmill blimps. It is during the afternoon right before the sun is about to set, although there are a few of composition on which time of the day I can capture.
Daytime/Midday Moodboard
Afternoon/Dusk Moodboard
Modelling the Windmill Blimp
Modelling the grass and scattering
Here I used a paintbrush and created a small grass, I then convert to polygons and retexured the grass.
I exported the grass as a stand-in, so when it comes to scattering the grass, it will be replaced with bounding boxes and less workload on the computer.
I used the Mash tool and scattered the stand-in grass onto the plane mesh, I cranked the number of scattering to 15000 to cover the ground. I also added a curve and drew a line. I added a falloff node and connected that to the curve line to create a footpath.
Here is the look of the grass when rendered.
Creating Clouds
Here I added the volume shader and connected that to aiStandardSurface viewport display. I had to fiddle with the settings including Arnold to show the clouds. I changed the transparency and added a cloud node.
Final Images
Hero
SideHero 1
Note- For SideHero 1, I had to get creative, so the original HDRI had trees in the background and it is hard to remove post rendering, so I took the image to Photoshop beta and used the generative fill to replace the background. Although it did the job, it wasnt a clean job.
SideHero 2
Models that were used/created
Windmill Blimps- Modelled and textured by me
Grass- Modelled and textured by me
Barn- Modelled and textured from turbosquid
Watertank- Kitbash asset from Uni resources
HDRI-used from PolyHaven
