I remembered the smells of the different herbs, a stillness of nature, and the color of the sky changing overhead. For the location of this project, the beautiful place in one of the provinces of Norway played a role – it made me remember the time I had spent in my granny’s village in Russia back when I was a child, the feeling of walking on the fresh overgrown grass at different times of day and in different weather conditions. I created the camera angles in my free time over three weeks, and in that time outside my window the mood was changing and the weather was changing too – so this was reflected in the footage. Below are some of the images that I turned to for inspiration: Honestly, at first I was more interested in a good commercial picture, and so I did maybe a couple of regular sunny shots – but then I was drawn to work in a more atmospheric and artistic spirit, and that is how I continued my experiments. I really wanted to follow their example and to practice with different lighting schemes, moods and camera angles.

So I took a break for a few months, and having let time do its healing, I decided to try again.Ĭhoosing inspirational images, I focused mainly on beautiful architectural visualizations with different styles and tastes. After a long time working on architectural visualization projects, I had lost the ability to approach the architecture in a way that made a beautiful image, and eventually I had stopped getting pleasure from that kind of work. Inspiration ‘The Lake House’ is an important project for me. The client preferred a more ordered look, so asked to replace the stones and the random vegetation with lawn grass, which gave us final renders as seen below: While this look fitted their needs, I saved my first version as I personally liked the look, and I returned to working on it for myself after the commercial project was complete.

The scene and all the vegetation was made during the commercial stage and offered to the client, as seen below: The client asked to crop the main image so that it wouldn’t be so wide, and so that we couldn’t see the neighboring house.

Initially, ‘The Lake House’ was a commercial project, but when I saw this terrain and its location near a lake on Google Maps, I fell in love with it and decided to continue working on it in my free time.

Corona renderer terrain