Chicago Downtown test render & compositing

Working on creating a city skyline to use for my film. Used a combination of simple building models and procedurally-generated buildings. Lines generated with Grease Pencil’s Line Art modifier.

Post-processing in Photoshop as a mock-up. Final compositing will be done in After Effects for any motion shots. Paint texture is a 2D effect based on some scanned painted textures I made with gouache. Possible I could recreate this using Blender’s compositer, but I know those other apps a lot better, so this is quicker for me.

Composited Final test

Raw Render before post-processing

Original comic illustration:

Original photo ref:

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