Environment Art

Zone

This work is a tribute to remarkable and quite unexpected flora recovery inside Chernobyl exclusion zone. Life prevailed against all odds.

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Digital Art
Year:
2012
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Creative Fields:
Digital Art
Years:
2012

This scene is made by using several programs:

  • Maya with mental ray (modeling, light, textures, rendering)
  • Mudbox (texturing, sculpting)
  • ZBrush (terrain sculpting)
  • UV Layout (for creating UV maps)
  • Onyx (for generating trees)

Technical data:

  • 13 tree species, 7 bush species, 5 other plant species with 6-7 shape variations.
  • poly count: 3,000,000,000 (9000 trees, 2000 bushes, 2000 grass patches, 2000 random plants, high poly helicopter model, terrain).
  • rendered with mental ray physical sun and sky.
  • render time (animation ready, 1920x1080) - 25min
  • render time (still frame, volumetric fog, 2400x1350) - 10 hours