God's Valley - Blender 3D

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Recorded 90% of all of the work I did to make this shot so yes there will be a full "Making of". GODSVALLEY - 15% off on the assets used in this shot! pathtrace.gumroad.com/ If you enjoy the educational content please consider supporting my channel! You can checkout my Gumroad to buy some of the assets you saw in this shot! Or you can join the Patreon for BTS, exclusive tutorials, and Discord access!

[@enisberge4591]

That would be great

[@Electropus10]

adv. thank you

[@andreasschultze6644]

Looks really cool. One thing I'd change for future uploads is that you don't render cinemascope bars into to file but rather "crop" the resolution to 2,35:1. Every widescreen user (like me) will thank you for that :) in 4K UHD that means instead of 3840x2160 it should be roughly cropped to 3840x1600

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks!, and I know, but sadly the showcase/breakdown bits were all in regular 1080p, so the whole video had to be 16:9 even though the render itself was cinemascope.

[@xanzuls]

The photorealism is on point. Great job.

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks! I do wanna try getting better at the photorealism in smaller scale scenes too. Maybe in a future project haha

[@akirasugiyama3358]

Absolutely amazing!

[@andreteodorescu7196]

Looks good, I would add more wear and greenery to the castle itself

[@danielledecalonne9949]

Makes me want to go hiking!!!

[@screwdriver1337]

Awesome stuff! Looking forward to the breakdown!

[@tilogunov]

It looks so impressive. Great work!

[@sadness212]

Great work 💚 Of course I'm waiting the make of video

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks so much and yessir its gonna be the next video!

[@3dlover650]

I can´t believe how good this is. That´s so amazing 😲😲

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks so much, luckily YT compression is hiding the noisy render ;)

[@emilie1977]

very beautiful!

[@arashtehrani7726]

perfect video,,, amazing environment.

[@tonyliu4065]

amazing!A very real scene

[@alexyu3722]

Wow!

[@Meriemferhatl121]

Wow .. that's so cool

[@deylightmedia3266]

loved your work and wanna learn how you manage huge scenes like these

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Well luckily in the next video I'll go through all the steps I took to make this!

[@deylightmedia3266]

@@Maarten-Nauta thank you 🙏🏿

[@KanishkTomar26]

breathtaking 🍻

[@ahmedshakib3883]

Fantastic.

[@Walex-the-one]

Nice done man! Must been a fun project!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

A very fun project until the last few days. The optimizing & rendering was painfulll.

[@sarthak9828]

This is so good.

[@NPS3D]

True beauty ❤️🤌

[@SanOcelotl]

Amazing work, congratulations, you should make a video giving us some recommendations on speedtree, the trees I do are always quite heavy or not realistic enough lol

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Sure, I am still starting out with SpeedTree but slowly getting more confident so when I feel like I know enough I will definitely try to make some helpful content on it!

[@Electropus10]

wow !!!! my jaw droped

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks :))))

[@champsbag9083]

Nice!

[@petrmn]

mate, what have you done??? this is mind blowing.. especially those distant trees. How you did them? cause i cant imagine there high poly trees you've shown in the preview spinning. And mountains.. they are amazing, reminds me of Pyrenees, but with snow on top. They brought back good memories about hiking i've done there, thanks for that!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/inzUn4Rpq72NaZI&ab_channel=MaartenNauta here this will help you to imagine ;) When you instance you can basically use infinite amounts of a single object, to the computer there is no difference between 10 or 1 million of the same, as it only has to load 1 item onto its memory. You can instance an object 1 by 1 using 'Alt+D' or you can instance many thousands using geonodes or in my case 'Geo-Scatter'. All you need to do is manage your viewport. You'll notice all my trees are bounding boxes in the viewport, and I hide layers in the viewport visibility etc. And you are very close, I was aiming my mountains to be southern Switzerland, near the Matterhorn. So Pyrenees is not far off!

[@Brown3D]

More amazing art❤

[@aumission]

Great work ! keep it up.

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks so much!

[@samk9632]

Holy jesus

[@manukp302]

No words 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻

[@ayushkumarjha9921]

This is so amazing ❤.

[@rifqiartstudio]

I wanna cry😢

[@TripTilt]

very cool render. I found Lorenzo Lanfranconi's art recently and think it is very inspiring indeed, did you take inspiration from a specific work or from his art in general? Are the trees all geometry or more like image textures. like completely or the leaf?

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Hey I have a fulll tutorial video on how I put this scene together that answers all your questions!

[@TripTilt]

@@Maarten-Nauta yeah, I found it after writing the comment :) iNaturalist seems very useful. And the other lanfranconi artwork in your moodboard is one of my faves from him, but I somehow missed the one you based the render on. Keep it up! :)

[@vixymiles2682]

Просто превосходная работа!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Большое спасибо!

[@nubnubbud]

I wanna see how you managed the moss, honestly!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

All Geo-Scatter and a Moss Biome for that one.

[@nubnubbud]

@@Maarten-Nauta wow, thanks for getting back to me!... and I'm gonna have to reverse engineer yet another addon, perhaps~ (also, subbed~)

[@JohnnyDavila]

This is surreal! Love every part. Just noticed that most of links are broken for some reason :(

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Thanks so much for calling that out, I fixed the links!

[@thewellnessportal]

How long does it take to make something like this, on average? From concept to completion? This is STUNNING work

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Depends how well you are prepared. If you are very sure of the image you want to make then it can be quite fast, 1-2 weeks. But if you are playing around with the concept while creating you can easily bump up the time to 2 months. Pre-production is key in time sensitive projects!

[@vacpw03]

wow ich bekomme den mund nicht mehr zu !!

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Danke haha! Vielleicht solltest du zum Zahnarzt gehen, um es reparieren zu lassen ;)

[@bedcrawler]

can we get a full tutorial? its amazing

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Check my channel, its already up.

[@bilaladvertizer]

nice share tips

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Will be the next video! Going to go through the whole process of creating this shot ;)

[@kaleabspica8437]

this is amazing,would you mind telling us your spec?

[@Maarten-Nauta]

3060Ti 8Gb VRAM Ryzen 7 3700x 4.2Ghz 32Gb DDR4 RAM

[@juliesaint744]

Can you please explain in the tutorial how you made this sharp mountain features in Gaea?

[@Maarten-Nauta]

I can't go into complete detail but just know the "Fold" node is your friend. The people on the Gaea Discord are super helpful btw, definitely recommend joining it :)

[@juliesaint744]

@@Maarten-Nauta ty ty

[@RomanSosnovsky6]

Amazing! how many samples?

[@Maarten-Nauta]

around 180 i think

[@Parth5d]

just one question : how much VRAM did this occupy?

[@Maarten-Nauta]

I only have a 3060Ti which has 8Gb of VRAM. So with proper optimization and cleanup I was able to render this out while also maxing out that 8Gb of VRAM haha!

[@commonaffection1703]

THIS IS IMPRESSIVE. was this rendered on a gpu? cuz I tried rendering a shot like this and ran out of memory (rtx 3080)

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Yep all rendered on a 3060Ti 8gb of VRAM, memory management is a good skill to sharpen!

[@commonaffection1703]

@@Maarten-Nauta AMAZING. I definitely have to relearn about resource management (already using linking, instances and render layers) but this is next level

[@bigjaws488]

Where trees are from. Botaniq Or otherplantlibrary

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Made them myself! Used SpeedTree, The Grove, and my own modeling :) But Botaniq is also a great library, I used 1 tree from there aswell, but its not in the showcase.

[@Hrishikesh7620]

could you give those trees?

[@davidDaniel0007]

full tutorial please

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Yessir, that will be the next video ;)

[@jaadoonfts8815]

I wanna know your pc specs ✌️

[@Maarten-Nauta]

3060Ti 6GB VRAM Ryzen 7 3700x 32GB RAM DDR4

[@dzomlamasina1560]

I allways ask ...just how

[@svs4662]

It would be interesting to see if you can get this result in realtime with Unreal Engine 5 ..

[@Maarten-Nauta]

Probably but with lower res plants and lots of LODs for distant objects. Possible but takes more time to make sure itll actually run smoothly