The reason i called this a "French" alley is because i felt like was building a french alley, simple as that :P the entire scene is lit by a single HDRi image and nothing else, to keep render times low. As to the modeling the houses are simple two by two planes with a texture, i later added detail to them, the red brick structure in the middle is like the main building of the allley with the french flag on top of it and one more thing i didnt pack the blend with textures because that would result in a 55mb blend as opposed to 5mb blend with no textures, i think that's all there is to say, hope you like it! Cycles Render at 1200 Samples.
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