“I received the opportunity to research my own independent study as I had completed all my college had to offer in ways of 3D design. I spent a semester teaching myself Unreal Engine 5 for the first time. This piece is an exercise in use of the landscape tools and foliage painters. All props were pulled from the Quixel asset library. Once I learned about the Nanite and Lumen systems, a whole new world of modeling was opened up to me.”