A place I’ve never been. A place I might never go to. A place I have seen some very nice photos of on the internet and a place I wanted to ‘paint’ (well, as close to painting as I get). Various treatments, but the first is my favourite - it has a sort of loose painterly style that I would like to have (if I could paint).
Data from the Scottish Government and NASA;
Data cleaned up in QGIS;
Mountain mesh and base texture created in Gaea;
Put together and rendered in Blender (using various free and purchased assets (inc. Graswald, Bontaniq)… but I modelled the cottage myself - very tricky and sculpted the river bank a bit );
Post processed in Photoshop and Lightroom.
As a Scot I love that you’ve portrayed a bit of Scotland during its two day “summer”
Lovely work. It reminds me of going on holiday as a child, sitting in the back of my parents’ car driving up north through places like Glencoe. I was always fascinated with the landscapes, the greens and the purples and what I know now as atmospheric perspective.
Glencoe itself was always a bit weird. Such a beautiful place, but forever associated with the infamous massacre in 1692.
Thanks - appreciate it.
The painterly look basically comes from applying various filters and actions, a bit of overpainting when necessary, masks and blending (and a lot of trial and error) to get the ‘look’ I want.
As it happens, I was just in Glen Coe a few weeks ago (during the two days of summer whats more), and amazingly, it does actually look just like that in person! (minus the brushstrokes )
Pleased it looks authentic (having never been, it was all based on reference photos… although hardly any were taken in sunny conditions surprisingly enough )
Man, you really nailed it! I love it.
I’ve climbed that mountain (Buachaille Etive Mor) and I could recognize it from your render instantly.
Here’s a photo of the climbing route (red going up, blue for descent) and a shot from the top.
@sebastian1066 Many thanks - very much appreciated. Really pleased it’s recognisable (thanks for uploading your great photos - if/when I eventually get there, I imagine I won’t be venturing up the mountain - far too fat and lazy!! )
So soothing view. I would render this to 20k and print on photo paper to hang on my bedroom wall…
beautiful !
Is there any chance you have .blend file of this?
Thanks - very much appreciared! Unfortunately, I’m not going to share my .blend file, not least because it is massive and would show off all my noobish amateurism
and sculpted the river bank a bit );
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(not quite 20k though!!)