The project started out as an exercise to see if I had the patience and ability to model and texture everything in a scene from scratch to a moderate level of detail. So side by side, I was modelling little assets and props while piecing together some coherent spaces. The theme of the environment is a fusion of east asian aesthetic cues, derived from reference images and my personal travels to various parts of that region.

I wasn’t convinced of the narrative tone when I placing generic people in post. So I decided to add the distinct ‘salary men’ ( Japanese white collar workers ) in their drunken state which I thought would compliment the spaces better. Plus combined with the sober venders, serving food, it created a nice jarring energy. The vendors upbeat sizzling, slicing, clinking and tinkling against the drunk, dizzy slowly spinning salary men.

Dark Band Studio was commissioned by the very talented Menichetti + Caldarelli team to visualise their idea for a new concept of detached houses. We spent days to propose a vision of dialogue between the new units and the dramatic natural Umbria landscape.

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We used 3DS Max + Vray + Photoshop.

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