Valley of Clouds

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The Valley of Clouds began as an exploration of Corona’s volume material and trying to achieve the feeling of flying above a foggy city. I wanted to push the boundaries of the volume shader to see if I could get a result that I hadn’t seen before. I started by building city blocks of night buildings from evermotion and then painstakingly adjusting the parameters of the fog material and surface modifiers to get a good result. Once I had the cloud material in place the rest of the scene evolved into a dreamy mountain landscape to further push the narrative of stumbling a hidden futuristic city hidden in the valley.

Two Houses Night View

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This image was based on the project of MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects.
It was mostly done with 3d Max. We used Forest Pack for the landscape, Substance for water and sand to achieve a better realism in the textures, and Corona renderer for the rendering. The post production was done with Adobe Photoshop.

Swiss pavilion

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This is my first project after attending the Masterclass and actually, it is also my first project ever. It took me a while to recap everything we have learned at State of Art Academy, but in the end – I think – it was very worth to take the time and do it thoroughly. I’m very proud of the results now. As my first scene I didn’t want to make it too complicated, but as an enthusiastic architect, my claim was also very high. I decided to make something smaller than a single-family house, but big enough to show some architectural considerations.

As a great fan of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, one of the most significant architects of modern architecture, I was inspired by his work in Barcelona and Berlin. After designing the pavilion I invested a lot of time in the environment. I made a lot of tests with Forest Pack and also integrated some Megascans assets. In the meantime, I started in a very early stage to work with Photoshop to see how it could look like in the end. This helps me a lot to find the right composition and mood, which was, by the way, the most difficult part.