Alchemist’s Lab
Pure, competing
Edit: I have updated the image with a higher sample render. Nothing else was changed. The original will be at the bottom of this post. The only real difference between the two are the better quality volumetrics.
Blender 2.82 Cycles + compositor
800 samples (denoised)
2048 samples (denoised)
I really enjoyed this challenge. Because of this, I put a huge amount of time and effort into it. Lots of details were made and arranged multiple times to get it right.
It’s a theme I never would have thought of or done normally with Blender, but I am glad I did as it is a bit of a difference.
The volumetrics were a bit noisy. Maybe I will update it with a better version later, but consider this done. It still looks fine with a bit of rough denoising there. The denoiser did a great job for everything else, though.
Original image:
