After using Blender or a decade I’m finding I enjoy it more when it’s used as a tool to augment and enhance scenes rather than create everything from scratch.
This is one such scene. After the plates of the soldiers were shot, the frame just felt really bare. It was just the soldiers in the room. So I projected the backplate (the room) onto some real basic geo, which created a budget HDRI, and placed a bunch of stock assets in there. Things like storage, sandbags, vintage food cans, a chandelier, and even leaves / debris from grasswald.
Would love to hear your thoughts