First of all the visual quality has to be very high. In my opinion, this splits into five parts. For the next half of the year, I will focus on creating dynamic wind animated and interactive vegetation. Projects I published recently are photoscanned ground landscape materials, photoscanned bark materials and a dynamic and interactive ivy. My background in coding 3D applications helps me a lot to optimize the designs because I know the math behind all the calculations. My main fields of interests are designing the nature as detailed and complex as possible but doing this in a very efficient way. I chose the last one and I am really happy with that decision!

After I graduated I had to make the choice: working as a programmer or following my dream and trying to become a 3D Environment Artist.

As often as possible I participated in game or film art projects at my university and improved my knowledge of the Unreal. The main field of my study was coding C++ and OpenGL, but I was always more interested in doing digital art with the knowledge I gained during my study. For my graduation thesis, I developed an application for simulating different avalanche types using the Nvidia PhysX library.

Earlier this year I finished my study in the field of computer graphics and image processing. Hello, my name is Nils Arenz and I am a Junior 3D Environment Artist from Germany.

Realistic grass brush photoshop