A woman reclining beside a swimming pool in a sunlit yellow motel courtyard with palm trees

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Haze

Project notes

Haze

Discipline: Photography · CGI
By: Tomek Mąkolski

01

Context

Haze is a personal photography and CGI project by Tomek Mąkolski, developed with Recom Farmhouse. A fictional motel draws on the atmosphere of 1980s Las Vegas.

02

Approach

The model photographs came first. The architecture, props and light were then developed around her poses and styling. Yellow surfaces and blue skies give the setting a familiar but slightly unreal quality.

03

Production

Concept, photography and production by Tomek Mąkolski. Recom Farmhouse explored the scenes in Unreal Engine and completed the CGI in Blender, integrating the photographed model into the environments through compositing and colour grading.

04

Making of

Each comparison places the clay-stage scene before its finished image. The grey environments show the CGI structure beneath the materials, colour and final atmosphere; they are work-in-progress views, not alternative finished images.