Birds & Botany - 3D photorealism (with 360 Pano)
Earlier pool construction rendered in a 360 panorama directly from Octane Render
Clay pass for the snobs
Earlier raw render of pool construction
Raw Render from Octane
Raw render from octane
A bit of a spin-off from a larger scene I was working on these days. I got a bit bogged down with the complexity and size of the scene so I decided to take a break. I sectioned off a small area and started to build a small pool. Paying closer attention to the details.
I'm Inspired alot by the 19th century art movement of Hudson River School. The works of Frederick Edwin Church in particular & his focus on realism and detail. His painting are meticulously detailed and almost dream-like. So I decided to make some renders loosely on the concept of birds in the tropics.
On a bit of a bird buzz I found some scans of my favourite tropical birds on Sketchfab (just google bird scans on Sketchfab as I'm not sure on Arstation's linking policy). I also learned that the Red Ibis is that colour because of the shrimp it eats.
Being a scan, I understand it doesn't hold up too well on close inspection. I started manually feathering them but realised it's too time consuming when the image is already okay without it.
Some of the images are graded in Davinci Resolve where I tried to portray a soft 'paintery' look. The other clean images are raw renders directly from Octane Render. I've tossed in a 360 panorama so you get an idea of how the scene would look in reality or in VR one day.
No birds were harmed in the making although I have my suspicions that peacock is a taxidermists scan 😁
Still working on the larger scene that I look forward to completing sometime this century.
Peacock model, CC attribution by Cesar Vonc
If you have any questions about these renders or need any tips don't hesitate to pop me a message. Always down to help.
