A 19th-century pastoral landscape study in Blender.
I always loved historic traditional paintings. While searching through my references, I got inspired to make something like a 19th-century painting (I will also try some oil paint effects in photoshop but I don’t think I’ll be sharing those).
Reused and tweaked my water shader that I made for my previous render. I think I could’ve made the ripples less strong and make the canal a bit more calm.
Houses and such are textured in Blender. I figured I’d like to step away from Substance Painter and UVs.
Ivys made in SpeedTree.
Rendered in Blender with Cycles. Post-processing done in Photoshop.
A quiet corner of the countryside, untouched by haste.
Thanks for reading.
I love this so much! the composition is great and the colors and water reflection look so good, almost painterly like it´s so beautiful it´s not real. Love the progress shots too, what did you use to generate that? I like the strenght on the water material, I think it´s such a large area of the image it brings interest to the center by giving it texture. I found this tutorial on youtube about large bodies of water, it talks about different wave lenghts and surface variations I will leave it here in case you are courious about tweaking your water but I think it looks really good just as you left it.
Amazing work! Thanks for sharing!
PS: sorry about the youtube image I don´t want to make this distracting but I don´t know how to avoid the post converting the link to the preview image.
Thanks for the kind words.
Progress video was just my test/progress renders compiled to a video with a video editor software.
I gave the video you linked a quick watch and seems like I already have whatever he’s showing in the video.
Really looks like a painting by one of the old Dutch masters. The colors and lighting is very nice. Good choice of composition, too!
The progress video is a neat idea - I’d never thought of compiling a video out of my many progress renders, that’s something I need to remember for next time I post something.
