The house has been modeled based upon some concept art provided in a course I followed.
The well was modeled based upon some reference images I found on Google.
Everything modeled in Blender and rendered in Cycles (800 samples).
Took about an hour with 2 GTX 980 ti cards.
oohh haha cool
Yes. I figured the grass and foreground bushes are the culprit. Not too bad for a single frame. 1500 hours to render a minute. I was just surprised the two cards didn't cut it down more. ;)
The combination of the grass density and trees are responsible for the long render time. The total memory it used during rendering was +4GB.
The pine trees in the background are actually part of a "billboard". It's a huge half cylinder with an image of trees and alpha map. This way i can easily add trees in the background without adding mesh complexity.
looks nice, may I ask how you did the pine trees?
Very nice. The render time seems a little long considering the two cards. Maybe optimizing the settings will speed up the render. Looks great.