What I did on the DUNE CITY project | 3DSMax, Vray, Gaea, Speedtree

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[@arupsan]

Love to see this kind of 3D max set up story from you … great environment artist …

[@whiteghost8244]

This helps a lot for the 3ds max community. Although most famous movies use 3ds max, Maya, and Houdini, it's really hard to know the process from real professional. I just see this channel for the first time and hit LIKE & SUBSCRIBE button!!!

[@secretsofdune]

I love how the look of Rogue One inspired this Dune city look.

[@KeysPlays]

Thats really awesome. Love to see how the professionals do it! :D I'd also love to see how you did the compositing.

[@itsjxomusic]

Stef, This looks incredible!! Well done!

[@robertdouble559]

Great breakdown of a top quality shot Steffan. Thank you so much for sharing!

[@damirtokpanov8957]

Amazing work. man! I love it. Super lighting and landscape

[@0billd299]

This project looks really amazing, and I've learned a lot, nice job!

[@Voolcan]

Very well done! First thought you were using Clarisse to scatter the city.

[@DylanPWN]

Beautiful work! Love it! :D

[@jussing]

This is amazing, thank you so much for sharing. Would love a little bit of info about your lighting, rendering and comp.

[@thelordofthebay9902]

Man it's unreal! This video is really interesting!

[@raneemFX]

Thanks for sharing the breakdown 🙌🙌

[@ramdpshah]

love to see more tips and tricks tutorials from you

[@Xationch]

Incredible work. Thank you to share this with us. Please make a more step-by-step video.

[@CGImagine]

Amazing! Congrats and thanks for sharing.

[@mikegentile13]

Great tutorial/breakdown. Would love to know if everything was proxied. Also I love your "asset check" flow. Where each asset was rotated, THEN the lighting was rotated. Very clever.

[@DuyNguyen-si3bq]

Yes please makes detail tutorials ! You are insane :)

[@Native_Creation]

Great breakdown on achieving cinematic quality level, refreshing to see 3dsMax still being used.

[@mfrancisco_850]

yeah i thought people said 3ds max is dead ?

[@F10F11hm]

Beyond inspiring. Could you please create a detailed postproduction video on this with Masashi Imagawa? How the scene was composited in post etc.?

[@somkrooz8825]

Thanks for the breakdown my man

[@Pawelec801]

Amazing result.

[@marwans4018]

A paid full step by step tutorial for environment like this would be great

[@inspiredbylife1774]

Great content!! I hope you could make more content like this

[@plolygon]

Stunning !

[@blacklight4720]

Amazing, well done.

[@FeRRainbow]

Thanks for the Breakdown/tutorial! Did you switch to 3ds Max?

[@matiasbenavidesdigitalvisu9511]

wow is incredible, like they said is difficult to see on YT high professional workflow on max

[@raneemFX]

step bt sep tut will be really helpful 👍

[@kimmysander2447]

Excellent breakdown Steffen. I was very curious, I saw on your ArtStation, that you previously used Maya for some of your projects. Which workflow do you prefer, Maya or 3Ds Max with Forest, Railclone Etc? And what tools are used if you for example had to do the same thing using a Maya based Workflow outside of 3Ds max. I Already know all the tools here having worked in Archviz for nearly 10 years, but I am curious what would be needed if I try and get into a Maya based production.

[@BillKermanKSP]

Actually somehow less time complex than I would've expected, result is really nice

[@irenasmitakova8758]

nice breakdown :)

[@davideghirelli4453]

flawless

[@atumicgain]

Makes me want to create my own video game❤

[@hoodboyslim]

Nice insights!

[@jeffjohn911]

Thank you for the tutorial

[@sajeelshukla]

Nice one buddy :)

[@MuthukumaranVFX]

Really awesome...

[@wygerse]

So epic!

[@Tritoon710]

Please talk more about shading details and how did u randomized the textures. Thx

[@TheFireNoodle]

So in Vray you can randomise the texture in multiple ways. The most simplest is using scholastic tiling in a vray UVW randomizer node that appears at render time.

[@TheBratscin1]

This is great! How do you scatter the building? Lmao thats the million dollar question.

[@nightcoreempress5248]

Really nice

[@guanglongluo7756]

incredible

[@HansenEdits]

Thank you 🙏

[@frost3dart]

great job

[@a.delatorre8863]

Amazing work please make more tutorial and more deeply

[@gaiusoctavius9931]

fantastic.

[@Patrix8558]

oh, I like it much more than Denis' version! this is more like what book made me think of. Not just fortified lifeless city buildings all around, but life! People, colors, drapes, markets, stores..

[@none53]

hey your work is always inspirable and awesome , i have a question 0:59 how did u create the layout in 3ds max ??? i mean u modelled it or mega scans ?

[@stfVFX]

my friend Masashi did that, planes + displace modifier (texture) + move vertices

[@lewinegash8942]

Please make a course on this .

[@Clonley]

In some parts of the video I can see a vertice count of about 40mil, is that only the terrain, or the complete scene with all the assets?

[@iqratech2695]

Awesome

[@kenzorman]

awesome

[@cg_machine]

Wow!!!

[@nouncz]

Bro so cool I'm inspired You

[@sherlockholms2448]

It is a perfect job! really amazing! Dear friend what is a so beautiful soundtrack in video? I couldn't find same in DUNE 😞 Would you give me name of this soundtrack please?

[@joojosart7772]

Do you also do the compositing?

[@jeffjohn911]

how did you scatter the props? did you hand place every building or...

[@poopiecon1489]

NICEEEEEE

[@joojosart7772]

How are you rendering a huge scene like this?

[@RobertoGarcia-rp7wu]

30M POLY !!!! DANGGGGG MY PC COULD NEVER , whats your setup?

[@arupsan]

Did you used GPU render ? Or Cpu ? Great detailed work …

[@stfVFX]

CPU! I dont know of any GPU that can handle that heavy scenes

[@arupsan]

@@stfVFX Agree …what about multiple GPU Also with network option ?

[@PlamenUzunov1]

Hello Steffen, how much take for these render shots? And what is your PC specs?

[@user-lE1ByAvL6ThExBYa]

OMG! 🥵🔥🔥🔥

[@-youssefmobarak]

as for rendering ....how many hours does it take?

[@TheGrandmaster1]

Is there any wayu you can give us some insight on how you were able to handle and maniuplate with any kind of efficiency and speed that kind of mind boggling polygon and asset count? Was everything proxied? Do you guys have a building full of Xeon workstations with entire racks of 3090TIs with entire shelves of exobytes of RAM? I understand studios have more computing power but something like this....in 3DS Max..? I'd love to learn how to come even close!

[@stfVFX]

You will be surprised how much optimization helps..ofc everything is an instanced proxy and we re use the same textures alot - i rendered this on a 5950x Ryzen and the scene only took like 38gb RAM..

[@mfrancisco_850]

@@stfVFX thats not possible i dont beleive it

[@Icefall3D]

What is a rough estimate on time frame for this project?

[@phoenix2gaming346]

they also use 3s max so its like original

[@andrewstanley]

you're fucking amazing

[@anasshaikh8757]

Which system are u using ?

[@spacemonqee5664]

since the KB3D buildings don't have beveled edges, how do you handle this? Does VRay have a round corners option for its shader?

[@stfVFX]

Yes there is. Never used it so far though. Those models are not made for closeups

[@spacemonqee5664]

@@stfVFX so you mean at that distance it really doesn't matter if they're beveled or not? Gotcha, thanks!

[@davidferrera2927]

Where to render your animation sequences, do you use a render farm or do it local on your machine, any advice on this topic? How long does it take you to render each frame? Do you use CPU or GPU?

[@stfVFX]

Local machine, 8 min/frame on CPU

[@davidferrera2927]

@@stfVFX You have very good render time per frame for such a realistic sequence. what processor do you use? For your lighting, what do you use HDRI, or Vray Sun?

[@stfVFX]

@@davidferrera2927 Vray Sun and domelight. I use a Ryzen 9 5950x. But the scene was also really well optimized. that plays a huge role too

[@davidferrera2927]

@@stfVFX You have a great course on a photorealistic scene, it would be great to see a course on how to handle a VFX-type animated scene like the ones you do, how to optimize them as you say, render settings, render elements and all that stuff. You have been very kind in answering my questions!

[@TheNjordy]

@@stfVFX Could you elaborate on optimization part? :) I mean the render time is very surprising for a prosumer level CPU

[@user-ch6ui7mg8r]

Can I know the version of Gaea?

[@getayawkalbelayneh5776]

Please tutorial

[@morkaili]

Trees on Arrakis???

[@anasshaikh8757]

Max dosen't crash ?

[@stfVFX]

Nope :D

[@mfrancisco_850]

this must be done in maya

[@catchmeifyoucan4477]

putting assets together that are already extremly detailed.

[@anasshaikh8757]

How u place trees in max....i am 3d artist from india i recently working on a project that i have to make environment....environment have tooo much trees..i used maya mesh network to place tree but my file is crashing 😢

[@spacewavecr]

Hey, you are a really talented 3d artist. Very impressive work. However, I can hear that you are using my music, without my permission. I've never stated that my music is free, and I know, that you know that you don't use other people's hard work without their consent! Since you are a content creator, I would expect you to respect this. What was the reason for you to go about using my music without asking?

[@lachlantrescott5533]

Read about copyright exceptions, such as fair use. You upload 10 hour of ambience loops, you can't expect to copyright it for monetization purposes. If you really want to be petty about it, go ahead and utilize KZbin's copyright system, but I bet that won't get you anywhere anyway.

[@ramdpshah]

awesome