Nightwalk (2021)

One of the great advantages of being a 3D artist is that you can do just about anything to a scene once it has been built. My fans have long come to expect night versions to accompany my brighter landscapes (because darker images work well as wallpaper). I have even created series depicting one landscape at different times of the same day/night.

Changing the seasons is an order of magnitude more complicated however so I have only done a few "Four Seasons" series. It's a lot more complicated than just changing the sun angle.

My son Ian prefers to walk at night and we went on quite a few "nightwalks" (as he calls them) over the summer of '21. Those walks were very special to me. Our neighborhood looks quite a bit like this render (esp. when all the fireflies are active). On one particular nightwalk we encountered a cat that followed us almost the entire time. I added him to the scene so I'll always remember.

Created and rendered using VUE/Plant Factory Enterprise.