Art Nouveau Conservatory
This conservatory scene is the culmination of my love of Art Nouveau style architecture, stained glass, and 19th century conservatories and winter gardens. Inspired initially by images of The Ursuline Winter Garden in Belgium, I sought to emulate the tone of the space's architecture and iterate upon it further, while also sharpening my skills with texturing, lighting, and realtime environment art workflows! The project thus far has taken me ~80 hours to get to this stage, and though it's at a point I feel satisfied posting it, I definitely plan to revisit it in my free time, adding more foliage and props!
Huge thanks to Andrew Williams for guidance and support throughout the course of this project, and photographer Eddy Van for his many high quality images of Sint-Katelijne-Waver that were invaluable as reference material!
https://www.artstation.com/andrewwilliams5
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sint-katelijne-waver/albums/105773
I focused on using the specularity to grant the illusion of reflections for the large side windows, as I did not yet want to focus on creating the space beyond this room.
I also made signficant use of Lumen's support for Emissive materials casting light to save on performance.
All materials were created using Substance Designer, making use of several trim sheets to maximize performance
A flythrough of the scene highlighting the space and utilization of a basic polarity shader applied to the ceiling windows! The more indirect the camera's angle is to the face, the weaker the material's emissive is in that area