Believe it or not, but this whole scenery was created procedurally. In e-on software’s VUE.
This image is the result of an 8 week online (yes, late evenings and weekends!) 3D Workshop I just recently completed (my second already) on CGSociety.
Everything is procedural: The terrain model, the vegetation (each plant plus the distribution), the volumetric clouds and haze. Even the main attraction: The almost too well hidden villa.
The villa is a procedurally generated model coming from CityEngine, which was manually placed.
Rendering this single image took about 26 hours on my quite fast hex-core machine. Minimal post work was done in PhotoShop.
I’m ready for some holiday in that villa now!