Welcome to Canyon City.
Enjoy your stay!
Cropped Version for Feature Row
Combined
Viewport
Clay
Scene Set-Up
Short making-of video, compiling WIP renders in the creation process:
95% Blender / 5% GIMP
Rendered in Cycles.
Cuda CPU rendered with 512-1024 adaptive samples.
2048x4096
4 layered render, compiled in Blender compositor
Inspiration/reference for this render was a wild blend of a dystopian city scape in a rough Tatooine (Star Wars) like environment paired with densely populated and cramped living conditions a la Hong Kong’s Walled City, Favelas nestled up a mountain side in Brazil’s large cities and large slum quarters/cities around the world. Other core elements were the emphasis of scale and the interplay between shadows/darker areas and lights/lit areas.
The micro displaced terrain and cliff plus the high amount of objects made the scene super resource heavy. I had to spend a considerable amount of time to make my pc render it, by splitting it up in 4 layers and optimizing it where possible, but in the end I learned a lot.
As always, your feedback, comments and critique is more than welcome!
If you want to check out my other work:
BA: https://blenderartists.org/u/wk042/activity/portfolio
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/wk042
IG: https://www.instagram.com/wk042/
congrats.