CABINS entry by matterender

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Just a first quick setup of the scene. Landscape modeling and texturing was made in MODO with Vray plugin. For the mountains in the distance I used an aerial picture of a bay near Chile from USGS, as suggested by Ronen, and turned it into a displacement map to create the basic geometry. Obviously some plants, rocks and more realistic textures from Quixel megascans still need to be added! I post here a picture I found on the web that I used as starting point and inspiration. Funny enough, what I had in mind was Patagonia by I ended up with a picture of a lake not too far from where I live!

CABINS entry by matterender

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I decided to start reasoning about this challenge by letting myself think of a place where I would like to take refuge and find shelter from my actual life, a sort of ideal place where to escape…

A few words came up to me, even before becoming a clear picture, and they where:

shelter
light
rain
warmth
inside/out
child

Then I started sketching, without a clear idea on my mind, and several pictures came to me, all very much related to my childhood and to my dreams of living in the nature, far from the city, close to natural elements such as: mountains forest, water.

Sometimes it felt like this project had to become a house on a cliff, sometimes in the clouds, some others by the water… in the end it turned out that I felt comfortable with the idea of a little stilt house at the side of a big lake, surrounded by the mountains, with high pine trees and a beautiful view to the water there where the mountains seem to move aside to show the line of the horizon, at the end of the world.