Sometimes, though, limitations turn out to be just another source of inspiration, and I decided to add the 3-level hobbit house as the main focus in the scene. My first idea was to make it a big scene, which I sketched out in rough form, as well as collecting a few more ideas for inspiration:Īs I experimented with this idea, I realized that a scene of this size and complexity was going to be too much for the 32 Gb of RAM on my ASUS ROG laptop (yes, the whole scene was created and rendered on a single laptop!) Here are some of the images that inspired me and shaped the direction I took: With the theme being set as “The Secret Garden”, I searched out some inspiration on the web. I want to say thank you to the Corona team for letting me share this ‘making of’ with you, and I hope you find it interesting and that it gives you some new ideas for your own images! My name is Romi Volentino, and I am a freelance artist from Indonesia. We spoke with artist Romi Valentino to find out how he created his ‘Hobbit House’, an image with a strong sense of the fantastic and whimsical, full of colour and detail, and with an almost painterly look.

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