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I created the scene in 3ds Max and rendered it with V-Ray, using Forest Pack Pro for the vegetation and a little bit of RailClone Pro for the railings.

Next to the colour scheme and caustics of the pool water, the vegetation was of special importance as I wanted a natural and photorealistic feel for my images. While I placed the single deck plants manually, the vegetation to the left and right of the deck area was scattered with Forest Pack Pro.

I created the ground by layering several Forest Pack objects on top of each other, using the same splines, planes and exclusion areas. I scattered spaced out grass on top of dark brown mulch, both of which conveniently came from the Forest Pack library, making it an easy process.

On top of that I distributed some young and short tropical plants, followed by another Forest object that organised all large palm trees. Nearly all plants came from Laubwerk's Plant Kit 7.

Stefanie Chapman