I made this when applying to a university class that teaches Blender for heritage visualization (Cergy Pontoise). I’m totally not a religious guy but one of the university’s projects was to virtually reconstruct an abbey now in ruins. My initial idea was to use these renders in a cartoon I was drawing but time flew too fast, so I had to stick with this. Which sucks because I liked my cartoon idea.
Made with Cycles 2.79 denoising, filmic, microdisplacement, PBR materials (incl. Principled), HDR lighting, all the good stuff.
Free models I used :
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/949599
https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/955673
No plan on improving these renders but consider them CC-BY. Actually, there, now it’s CC-BY.