Behind the Scenes: Nightfall Castle By Alina Khan on November 26, 2024 Behind the Scenes Explore how Galazi, a self-taught artist from Taiwan, brought the enchanting Nightfall Castle to life, blending custom assets, clever lighting, and creative techniques.INTRODUCTIONHello everyone! I'm Galazi, a self-taught artist from Taiwan.My first area of study was film editing, and then I began delving into 3D.I started learning 3D from CG Fast Track, and it has been almost three years now.Currently, I'm focused on creating environment art.INSPIRATIONBefore I started creating this scene, I made an asset pack first.If youd like to, you can get this asset pack on my gumroad.When I started creating this, my initial idea was to try making a castle set in the mountains.However, I didnt have a clear direction for the actual creation, so I found this as a reference for my scene:PROCESSI used Blender to complete this scene, exported the video, and then made adjustments in After Effects.AssetsThe castle, mountains, and trees in this project were all modeled from scratch, while the materials and some foreground rock models were sourced from Poly Haven.MountainI sculpted some shapes of the mountain.Tree on the MountainAs for the trees, I used geometry nodes to distribute them across the mountains. The nodes:The trees in this scene were set up as 2D planes to reduce rendering time.LightingI used warm orange lighting on the buildings.Light Color: FFD596As for the blue lighting, I used it on the small village in the foreground.Light Color: 6FBFFFAnd always remember to add fog!If you want to see a more detailed production process, I have recorded a timelapse. Time-lapseRENDER: Nightfall CastleThank you for reading! I hope this can give you a bit of inspiration!About the Artist Galazi is a freelance 3D artist, currently focusing on environmental art. Links