Design Beautiful Outdoor Scenes

Mohsen Hashemi details his efficient workflow process for the creation of this photorealistic environment

- Mohsen Hashemi

This render, inspired by Hrensko National Park in Czech Republic, was for me the next step to further my skills at producing 3D visualisations, and a great challenge on how to use tools more efficiently for archviz scenes. Although this project may seem like a very complex one, I will demonstrate just how easy we can create such a realistic result if we simply follow the right workflow process.

Special thanks to Wim Vanderschueren for help with this project.

01 MODEL THE ENVIRONMENT

This is often a challenging step, but I’d advise you to just think about what you need, and don’t exaggerate the process. In this project I modelled only the environment that was visible to the camera. I basically started with a simple plan, divided it into mid-range segments and made my basic environment with push and pull in 3ds Max. It may take time, but it’s the best and most optimised way of creating a terrain.

02 DISPLACEMENTS AND TEXTURES