Gallery

Bertrand Benoit

The Spring is one in a series of images inspired from 19th century French spa architecture and landscape design.

It is centered around a classical wood structure inspired by an existing structure in my beautiful home town of Vichy but with considerable liberties taken. In the end, it is largely a fantasy vision anchored in reality.

The pollarded plane trees are typical of turn-of-the-century French urban landscape design. There are three different handmade models, all with photo-scanned trunks and textures.

The entourage--lamp posts, benches, anduze planters, etc.--were made in 3ds Max, ZBrush and substance painters from real-life models.