Beauty Approximations

Quick test to see what's needs to be done.

Mist to be placed on the lakes.

Did some work on the lighting on this setup. Also tried to compute the kind of type of "stretched reflections" you offen see on water, but as maya/vrays shading interface is frustratingly limited I only managed to do this in Houdini (top picture).

Found through a meeting that we need to get fairly close to some pinetrees so I started on this setup. They feel a bit saggy but some tweeks and they're good to go.

Tree model dev. This will do.

Lighting started.

Trees WIP for intro shot.

Quick concept for environment in intro shot.

New test here. Added some smoke and a test credit that lights up some snow around it. Currently, the white snow doesn't receive this new pink light and it's also rendered using a different focus distance. With some typography work the credit text should get a 50's neon sign look.