# Chinese cottage **URL:** \ **Category:** Finished Projects\ **Tags:** landscapes, environment, exteriorarchitecture\ **Created:** [June 24, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891 "2024-06-24T11:09:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Navid\_Ahmadi](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/navid_ahmadi/32/1307386_2.png) [@Navid\_Ahmadi](https://blenderartists.org/u/Navid_Ahmadi)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 11:09am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/1 "2024-06-24T11:09:29Z")
![Snapinsta.app_449052491_1186270219075790_7585463729059232239_n_1024](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/8/7/8872927e5632f17b7ffcf185377e8ae9d1e1613b.jpeg) I built the whole scene in blender and the china building model is from free model company. I did not use artificial intelligence (No Ai) ---
**Author:** ![Skytuhua](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/skytuhua/32/1242052_2.png) [@Skytuhua](https://blenderartists.org/u/Skytuhua)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 2:26am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/2 "2024-06-25T02:26:39Z")
that is so real!! ---
**Author:** ![quadhead](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/quadhead/32/1236822_2.png) [@quadhead](https://blenderartists.org/u/quadhead)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 9:59am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/3 "2024-06-25T09:59:41Z")
Looks very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Hbb](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/838e76/32.png) [@Hbb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Hbb)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2024, 10:32am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/4 "2024-06-25T10:32:28Z")
The scene is very realistic. ---
**Author:** ![3d4real](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/3d4real/32/1232000_2.png) [@3d4real](https://blenderartists.org/u/3d4real)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/5 "2024-06-28T03:15:11Z")
Trees from where bro? ---
**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2024, 10:14am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/6 "2024-06-28T10:14:43Z")
I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend! > **[Best of Blender Artists: 2024-26](https://www.blendernation.com/2024/06/28/best-of-blender-artists-2024-26/)** > > Every week, hundreds of artists share their work on the Blender Artists forum. I’m putting some of the best work in the spotlight in a weekly post here on BlenderNation. ---
**Author:** ![Fateme](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/f/f19dbf/32.png) [@Fateme](https://blenderartists.org/u/Fateme)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/7 "2025-01-11T14:34:10Z")
that is so cool and Spectacular 👏 ---
**Author:** ![anon81187146](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/d2c977/32.png) [@anon81187146](https://blenderartists.org/u/anon81187146)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/8 "2025-01-12T00:30:23Z")
Great photo! ---
**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/9 "2025-02-08T19:27:27Z")
🎉 Congratulations, this work was a winner in the [Best of Blender Artists 2024](https://blenderartists.org/t/these-are-the-winners-of-the-best-of-blender-artists-2024/1578497) award in the Exterior Architecture category! ---
**Author:** ![djal\_design](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/djal_design/32/1442570_2.png) [@djal\_design](https://blenderartists.org/u/djal_design)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2026, 3:15pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/10 "2026-02-05T15:15:00Z")
Looks wonderful, do you have any tips to share in order to achieve this type of realism? What are your render settings? ---
**Author:** ![etn249](https://blenderartists.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/b19c9b/32.png) [@etn249](https://blenderartists.org/u/etn249)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 4:16pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/11 "2026-02-07T16:16:35Z")
I’m not the creator of the image, but looking at this, I think this image has rather basic lighting and rendering and the realism is all in the models. The bridge looks like a photoscan of a real bridge, though this result could probably be achieved by a good sculptor / texture painter too. The trees look like they have fully modeled leaves, that’s the way to get such realistic trees with a 3D model. Lots of tree models use textures on flat planes for performance reasons, but it’s not entirely realistic. Real leaves aren’t flat, they have a complex curved 3D structure. This makes for realistic, but very heavy trees, so they have to either be used sparingly, or with lots of instancing and hiding them in the viewport. ---
**Author:** ![eobet](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/eobet/32/1491658_2.png) [@eobet](https://blenderartists.org/u/eobet)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 5:07pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/chinese-cottage/1535891/12 "2026-02-07T17:07:04Z")
I think it’s the colors which are spot on and recognizable as what the average tourist shoots with an average camera, which makes it very believable. Cycles is notoriously bad with outdoors vegetation, and this is the best I’ve seen yet.