Polar Station

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POLAR STATION

architecture by: Shimkin Andrei, Hrustalev Dmitry, Fridrihson Anastasia, Roshchencko Roman

modeling & visualization: Roshchencko Roman
software: 3ds max, Revit, Corona renderer, Adobe Photoshop, Substance Painter, Zbrush

We have created a conceptual project of research polar station located in the taiga, not far from the "Land of Hope" ethnic settlement, in the mountains of the Polar Urals.
This polar station is a year-round and fully autonomous complex, created on the basis of renewable energy sources and hydrogen energy, without diesel fuel.
A unique platform is being created for international cooperation of engineers, researchers, scientists and young scientists

may 2020

"As an artist, I wanted to achieve the feeling of touching something unknown, like another planet. The observer receives a full range of emotions and goes a long way from alienation to love for this place. In the first images, the building is shown in the distance, in bad weather, but gradually we trying to get closer to the object, walk towards and in the end we enjoy the beautiful northern lights in the background of the polar station."

VEHICLE CREATION

An all-terrain vehicle was modeled especially for the project. Initially, there was no idea to make a detailed model, but I did not find anything similar to the Trekol Husky and it turned out to be faster and better to do from scratch. The whole modeling process took about 3 days, rendering the images on a black background took some time apart from working on the environment.

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Very briefly about creating an environment. I made a decision to make the entire location in 3D, about 2x2 km in size (in good quality) and a few more km for the long-range shot. So it was more convenient to get intermediate results at any time. I started collecting maximum information about this location - satellite imagery, topographic surveys, examples of flora and weather. I started to collect a basic set of plants, buildings and started modeling what was missing.

If you are interested in a detailed tutorial - please write in the comments!

and many thanks to Thu Berchs for support!