House of Fairy Tales

[Pixelcon]

Heya folks,

I don't get or take the opportunity to post much stuff anywhere, but here is something I completed recently for Kengo Kuma.
The project was for the re-development of the H.C. Andersen House of Fairy Tales in Denmark. Kengo Kuma won the project against some stiff competition so that was nice.
Client was super good to work with and really let me do what I wanted which is pretty rare.

Lots of PS obviously but in the second image and in a third (not shown here) Vray and FP handled an insane amount of foliage (hedges, some grasses etc). I'm always blown away by how stable and fast the Hardware, Vray and Forest Pack have become in the last couple of years. I can't remember the last time Vray gave up because I was throwing too much at it.





Cheers,
James

[glorybound]

Good stuff. I love the second one!

[Nicinus]

Wonderful mood.

[tricky]

Great shots. I particularly like the character of the first. I want to be sat on one of those stones next to the pond reading a book. The planting looks great. Only area that draws my eye (in a slightly negative way) is the top left of the first image where the big green bush doesn't feel quite right against the atmosphere/fog.

I'd love to know if the trees are entirely CG (with post work of course) or if you have found suitable photos of trunks/root systems with moss etc and painted them in.

[AJ Jefferies]

Great job! I really, really want to go there...

[Pixelcon]

Great job! I really, really want to go there...

Same Should be interesting to see how it turns out...

[Pixelcon]

Great shots. I particularly like the character of the first. I want to be sat on one of those stones next to the pond reading a book. The planting looks great. Only area that draws my eye (in a slightly negative way) is the top left of the first image where the big green bush doesn't feel quite right against the atmosphere/fog.

I'd love to know if the trees are entirely CG (with post work of course) or if you have found suitable photos of trunks/root systems with moss etc and painted them in.

Thanks I think I see where you're talking about. There's a bit of a line forming there.

It's all 2D. Only the glass/wood/concrete and those foreground stones were rendered.

[Pixelab]

Amazing work ! Perfect athmosphere for this kind of project.

I really like the way you manage to pinpoint the right mood without overdoing it with effects, glows, god beams etc.

Thanks I think I see where you're talking about. There's a bit of a line forming there.

It's all 2D. Only the glass/wood/concrete and those foreground stones were rendered.

tip: if you search by image in google, you'll find HD versions. You can then easly spot the 2D parts from the 3D.

[Macker]

I would genuinely like to see the raw render output on something like this. I find it fascinating to see how much is done in render, or in post - either way, when it's done well (like this) it's excellent.

[Pixelcon]

Behold the power of Vray...

Base:


And a hacky pass for the water and rocks:



The other image was much more fleshed out in 3D to be honest.

[Macker]

Wow, that is ridiculous. I can't do that much post work - it'd drive me insane when the architect says "can we just move the camera up a little". For this reason I try to do as much as possible in render.

[Pixelcon]

Wow, that is ridiculous. I can't do that much post work - it'd drive me insane when the architect says "can we just move the camera up a little". For this reason I try to do as much as possible in render.

There are 'operations' in place to completely eliminate that possibility. But yes, it would be soul-shattering to have to start-over.