Atelier Aurélie is a small atelier envisioned as our dream workplace for painterly endeavours, although the project is presented here as a sculptor's atelier. Designed by Sanning Arkitekter, modeled in Blender, textured with Substance Painter and Megascans, and rendered in Unreal Engine 4.

For us, a yet far-fetched although inspiring vision is to imagine a place for us to again commence painting with oils – an activity ceased with the onset of baby life – beyond the otherwise fully sufficient confines of our compact home. To that purpose, we envisioned an atelier, architecturally divided in two; essentially one volume filled with natural light for artistic production, and the other more secluded and housing a small kitchen and bed.

Having modeled and textured the building, as well as placing it in a landscape we created with Quadspinner Gaea, we used Unreal Engine 4 to render a short clip of it, mimicking the camera movement of a drone shot. The final 4K render took only two hours on a single consumer grade GPU for the 220 frames needed for the 9 seconds long clip, a magnificent technical feat thanks to the new Movie Render Queue in Unreal Engine 4.25.

This project uses HDRI – Nobel Park Arboretum (Late Winter; Midday) for its environmental lighting, utilized as an Unreal Engine SkyLight.

To view the clip above in its full resolution, as per our recommendation, click the following link, enter full-screen, and improve the viewing quality via the cogwheel: Atelier Aurélie – Exterior Shot [UE 4.25]

Below are two stills from the short clip.

View from south-southeast.

View from southwest.

Legal notes

All images and video footage have their copyright reserved to © 2020 Aifoskela AB.

3D model credits:

Bust of a Child by Geoffrey Marchal
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a sculpture in Air Force Museum of Vietnam by HoangHiepVu
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Adam, Rodin by Moøkan
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Lady Bust - Benlliure by Moøkan
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Bacchante couchée - Petit Palais, Paris by Yannoid
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Engine:

This project uses the Unreal® Engine. Unreal® is a trademark or registered trademark of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere.
Unreal® Engine, Copyright 1998 – 2020, Epic Games, Inc. All rights reserved.