The month has flown by and brought with it more awesome artwork. Here’s five projects from August 2020 to get you motivated to create in September and beyond!
Themiya Meemaduma – Mushroom
Themiya Meemaduma’s, “Mushroom,” showcases the artist’s mastery over lighting and shading. This glowing fungi on the forest floor is a stellar example of a mesh force being used to build complex models like attracting and obstructing the frills to fit beneath the mushroom’s cap.
Pasquale Scionti – Winden Caves Environment Render with Unreal Engine 4.25 and Raytrace
Pasquale Scionti is a prolific archviz and environment artist with a portfolio of cool real-time work based in Unreal Engine. If you’re looking to build a tree with a split trunk like one found in the foreground of, “Winden Caves,” check out our tutorial on splits.
NAD Montreal Group Project – E P I T Λ P H
This dramatic cinematic is both breathtaking and unsettling in a time of high tensions and global conflict. If you’re creating expansive real-time landscapes like those found in, “E P I T Λ P H,” be sure to tune your LODS so your smooth camera moves don’t get overshadowed by popping assets.
Javier Arjonilla – Silent Life chapter 1
Revealed in his breakdown, he captured the sidewalk using photogrammetry, employing Houdini to propagate the moss into the high-detail mesh’s cracks. He even included a clip of how he captured his moss growth foley using wheat and a zoom recorder! “Silent Life chapter 1” stands as one of our favorite examples of SpeedTree Cinema’s growth feature.
Ale Barbosa – “My Only Love” by Moby
Ale Barbosa worked with Zombie Studio to bring the environment to life in “My Only Love” for activist and musician Moby. The video serves as an emotional heavy hitter that doesn’t leave room for a happy ending in the face of human led climate catastrophe. Many assets within the video utilize fronds: get a deeper understanding of how to use them on our docs!
Start your next project with assets inspired by August’s Top 5!
Fly Amanita Mushroom
(Cinema)
Themiya Meemaduma’s innovative use of SpeedTree to create “Mushroom,” reminds us of our photogrammetry Fly Amanita mushrooms.
Scots Pine
(Cinema)
The tall trees with short, bare lower-branches standing as silhouettes in the fog surrounding Pasquale Scionti’s, “Winden Caves” bring our Scots Pines to mind.
Norway Spruce
(Cinema | Games)
While “E P I T Λ P H” moves its setting through time and space, the pines we see at the start and end bring to mind our tall Norway Spruce models.
Araucaria Pine
(Cinema | Games)
As depicted in “My Only Love,” the Amazon rain forest is home to a variety of flora and fauna not found elsewhere. While the Araucaria pine is native to the Andes in Chile and Argentina, its unusual form reminds us of that biodiversity.