Alexander Schmidl

**snoeds** · 06-12-2012, 09:08 AM

Hi everybody and thank you Ronen for this great challenge.
I wanted to test Forest Pack for a long time and now is the perfect time for this. By the way, thanks for moving the deadline to the end of June. Otherwise I would not have the time to participate.
So, my project is greatly inspired by many holidays to South-East Asia, especially to Cambodia, I made during the last years. I was fascinated by the old temple complex of Angkor in Cambodia and the vegetation surrounding it. And so I decided to make a scene with a lot of jungle, where I can use the Forest Pack, some temple in the background and a canyon with an old bridge.
I have a lot of pictures I made in my holidays as reference.

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**snoeds** · 06-12-2012, 11:45 AM

Some WIP pictures:
I have to mention that I started working on the scene in the middle of May. But I did not have time to post some pictures. I work on the scene when I have time in my studio.
Here is the basic scene. Flat ground in the front. A big canyon. On the left I plan to place a waterfall.
On the other side of the canyon I want to place the temple.

**snoeds** · 06-12-2012, 01:49 PM

Some more WIP pictures:
In the background I want to have some mountains covered with trees. Because Forest Pack Lite is limited to even surfaces I could not model the mountains in one mesh. I had to split it in single planes and rotate them into the right position to get the desired look.

**snoeds** · 06-12-2012, 02:01 PM

In the next step I added some materials, grass and plants. To give more details to the foreground I also scattered some leaves and stones on the path. The roots were made with ivy generator.

**snoeds** · 06-12-2012, 02:11 PM

Time to add the temple. It was modelled in a seperate file and linked via xref because it has quite a lot of polygons. I also plan to make a closeup of the temple with ivy growing on it.
The bridge is also still missing. And I also will link it via xref because the bridge should be highly detailed as I want to do a closeup of it.
Thats it for now. I have to focus on the bridge now. I hope that I can post some more pictures the next days.

**snoeds** · 06-30-2012, 10:01 AM

Hi everybody!
Here are the last images of my WIP.
As I wrote before I modelled the bridge in a seperate file. It has become quite detailed and has a heavy polycount. I made several different knots and planks to make it look random. An image of the bridge is attached.

**snoeds** · 06-30-2012, 10:12 AM

After hours of rendering the funny part in Photoshop starts.
The images were rendered with depth of field. So it took quite a long time to render them. That is why the images have only 2000 pixels on the longer edge. I plan to render them in higher resolution but it was impossible before the deadline.
And here are my final images!