This is the rendered plate, as it was saved out of 3Dmax. 

Now with the addition of a grass layer.

Horizon and shadows

First vegetation layers.

It is nice to fill the image from the background, so your layers stay in a proper oder - the downside is that large images in the foreground save a lot of work.

+ Vegetation and lakes.

Even + vegetation.

Here is quite obvious how the foreground was composed by large trees and canopy. Not many layers composed about 40% of the image area.  

Adding people creates scale.

The final plate. Sun-shades were added later as part of a change in the project. It was requiered about 20 hours of compositing to fill the image up - but saved probably the same time for creating a 3d solution and more 10 hours of render time.


Hope you enjoyed it.


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