This is a realistic exterior render in Maya of a tuscan villa called “Leopoldina” I made the 3d model using the poligonal modeling tools of Maya and the realistic rendered have been made in Mental Ray. The image is all 3D, no image is applied in post production.
To make the realistic garden I used my own collection of grass, flowers, plants and trees. I created these 3d models of plants and grass to make them look realistic without killing the rendering performances. All the texture are hand-made by me.
(3D Models and textures in Maya, exterior realistic render with Mental Ray | January 2013)
