Forest Environment - Proof of Concept 02

Another Proof of Concept I just finished in preparation for the full-cg shortfilm we will produce as our final project at university. This time, I went for a more open forest, so that the light can fall through it. It heavily changed over the 3 weeks I worked on it (in the evenings, after getting home from work). Somehow, I managed to reduce the rendertime to ~11 min per frame. I am really proud of this and I can't wait until we finally start with the production in october.
PS: This would not have been possible without Constantin Kormann (ckormann.artstation.com). He gave really good and reasonable feedback and helped me find the look and style of this forest.