Dream Garden Shed - Making of

Hello everyone! My name is Ewelina Lekka. I’m Polish architect and 3D artist. First of all I want to thank Evermotion team for great opportunity to presenting my work.  3D is my big passion, the most of all I love creating warm exteriors with full of greenery, so my last project is just like that. 

Software used: Autodesk 3ds Max | Corona Renderer | Photoshop 
 

Final image. You can see all final renders on Behance.

Inspiration

As I mentioned before I very like creating „green” exteriors. For this renders my biggest inspiration was „Kekkila Green Shed” project. I love the mood and beautiful location which is perfect for me. I decided to show it on my own the best as I can and the great Corona Renderer helped me in this purpose :) When I make renders based on photos I’d like to make it so similar to references because it's a really great challenge for me :)
 

Modeling

For making glass cabin I used simple Boxes and Planes and converted it to Editable Poly. Before converting I checked „Generate Mapping Coords.” so I had sure that I will recieve right mapping on my boards, rafters and poles without adding UVW Mapping modificator. 

For making landscaping I used simple Plane, converted to Editable Poly, added „Populate Terrain” script, some Noise, Smooth and UVW Mapping. I also added some „Push/Pull” effect to make this terrain more irregular like in real world.

For creating green environment, trees and plants I used plugin Itoo Forest Pack. Wood panels was maden by using „Floor Generator” plugin.

I also tried to make as many details as I can. This helped me keeping renders more realistic. I worked on details of windows, added some nails to boards, hinges and lock to door.

Materials

Materials in this project are quite simple, but of course I tried to make it the most realistic as I can. Below are samples of woods, and glass. For some pot plants and ground I used atlases  and surfaces from Quixel Megascans which worked very well with displacement effect.

Lighting

For the lighting I used only HDRI maps. For every sunlight scene I used the same free HDRI map from darstellungsart which worked better than I supposed. I only changed position of the sun for each other sunny scene.

For cloudy and night scenes I also used one and the same map from Peter Guthrie. Night scene was maden by simply using LightMix.

Below CoronaCamera settings:

Post production

There wasn’t so many post production. Corona did an amazing job for me. I only changed a little levels and curves. For better effect I mixed some Render Elements as well.

That’s all. Hope my article will be helpful for you :)
https://www.behance.net/ewelinael