Project
Overview
A brutalist gate environment inspired by Beksiński — modelled, shaded and lit from concept to final render. The goal was scale: making a structure feel heavy enough that the camera has to look up at it.
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In motion
A slow push through the gate, graded for mood. Moving the camera slowly is what sells the size — a fast pass would read as a small model, while a creeping dolly gives the eye time to register how far away the far wall is.
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Reference
The mood leans on the dystopian architecture of Zdzisław Beksiński — structures with no visible purpose, photographed as though they have always been there. That reference set the palette and the sense of decay before any geometry existed.
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Blockout
First massing done in Shapr3D, then refined and detailed in Blender. Roughing the proportions in a CAD tool made it quick to test how tall the gate needed to be before committing to any surface detail.
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Shading study
Material and lighting passes — building, closeup and ground. Each surface was tested in isolation first, so the concrete reads as poured and weathered rather than as a flat grey material stretched over everything.
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