Our visualisation team support all aspects of LUC’s work to deliver better futures for nature, people, and places. Their specialist, technical visualisations help our clients better understand the interaction between our environment and their projects.

We have worked closely with the Forestry Commission on several projects to help them illustrate the likely impact of their work to protect vulnerable landscapes and forests. Recent work involved delivering a series of visualisations for two landscape scenarios; resilient landscapes and agroforesty. 

Agroforestry practices involve combining trees and shrubs with crop and livestock agriculture practices. LUC’s visuals for the agroforestry scenario involve modelling bespoke landscape axonometrics. They illustrate how landscapes can be optimised to accommodate multiple agroforestry uses. Creating the landscape in 3D allowed for multiple viewpoint cameras to be set up within the model to create additional perspectives.

The resulting visuals clearly demonstrate how a diversified agroforestry management approach can enhance crop yields and encourage biodiversity. This enables landowners to maximise the potential of their land while creating benefits and opportunities for nature.

We built striking visuals for the resilient landscape project to demonstrate the impact of proactive, informed forest management. Our landscape model illustrates the risks of poor tree species diversification. Visuals were modelled and rendered using Blender, in which we sculpted bespoke landscapes and scattered specific tree species to recreate real-life conditions.

The resilient landscape models demonstrate the positive impact that forestry management can have on ‘less resilient’ landscapes, which would otherwise be prone to wind blow and disease. By transitioning to a diverse range of tree species, the visuals show how we can achieve resilient landscapes with increased biodiversity and soil health.

This detailed and engaging 3D base model not only allows the Forestry Commission to understand and demonstrate their impact clearly, but it will also pave the way for future landscape iterations to help inform sustainable forest management practices.

We created a series of illustrative visualisations to demonstrate good practice in landscape and woodland design. The aim was to improve understanding of landscape character, how to integrate new woodland, and how to apply key design principles near communities.