’Mr Managi’s garden’ is a picture I made for the monthly challenge in the Vue d’Esprit forum at Renderosity.
Today I found out it was selected as a winner by the forum 🙂 Sweet ! This is the second time in almost 3 years that win that challenge.
This picture is special to me for a couple of reasons. It marks another step in exploring lighting techniques in 3D graphics. I was after a soft, serene morning light and I think it comes across that way. The problem is that, the more I play with lights, the longer it takes to render a scene. I guess it shows that no matter how optmized your system is, you will always find a way to reach its limits. In the end, it still takes me a few days to render a scene. The result is more detailed, larger, better textured, but it is still a few days. Just like when I started with simple geometric shapes a few years ago.
The other reason is that Mr Managi is really fishing under a dead bonsai tree in my wife’s office. We often joked about how sad he must have been to see his tree lose its leaves and die out shortly, This is a picture of the garden of his dreams, dedicated to my wife, Lori.