How I made this Solarpunk 3D Environment
A breakdown of my most recent personal project, "Gaia". A CGI 3D environment built in Houdini Solaris and rendered with Karma XPU. Some modelling and animation in Blender, background mountains in Gaea, comped in Nuke. I worked on it in my free time over 6 months, if this project was a job I'd quote ~3 weeks.
Due to VRAM limitations and for more control in comp, I split the render into 7 layers. Combined render time across all layers was ~12 minutes / frame on 1 RTX 4090, totalling ~60 hours.
My biggest inspiration was, of course, THE LINE's beautiful animation 'Dear Alice', a staple of the solarpunk genre.
High quality video and stills/wallpapers (please credit if sharing):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folder...
Models:
Airborne wind turbines by Anton Weaver
Ground plane field texture by Steffen Hampel @stfVFX
Cloud VDB by Samuel Kruger @samk9632
Wind turbines by Alexander Weide @Alexs_Music_Comps
Wooden buildings by BigMediumSmall @bigmediumsmall_
City buildings by KB3D @KitBash3D
Foliage by Evermotion @evermotion
Music:
Resonance - Home
All City - Froman @fromanmusic
Contact:
https://dylan3d.com
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Gaia ("Γαῖα") is the ancient Greek primordial goddess of Earth, the mother of all life. She represents the poetic, foundational power and beauty of the natural world. The Gaia Hypothesis observes Earth as a self-regulating system where organisms and their abiotic environments co-evolve, interacting to maintain the conditions necessary for life. This synthesis of ancient reverence and geophysiology points to a future where humanity, guided by technology and a deep respect for the planet, thrives in harmony with a beautiful, living Earth.
Time stamps:
00:00 Preview
00:04 References
00:11 Blockout
00:21 Background
00:39 Stone Walls
00:55 Solarpunk Assets
01:23 Scatter
01:32 Viewport
01:38 Compositing
01:52 Final Shot
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