# Flying Boat over the Clouds

**URL:** <https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468>\
**Category:** Animations\
**Tags:** modeling, characters, animation, lighting\
**Created:** [May 14, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468 "2023-05-14T14:08:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![vicube\_animation](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/vicube_animation/32/1027944_2.png) [@vicube\_animation](https://blenderartists.org/u/vicube_animation)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2023, 2:08pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468/1 "2023-05-14T14:08:37Z")

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Hello guys,

this is my interpretation of a flying city/village over the clouds.  
It was always a dream to make something like this but i hadn´t enough power to manage it earlier. All clouds are volumetrics.

It was rendered with 200 samples and the render time was around 60h on a RTX 4090.

[![](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/2/e/7/2e7e84ddc8f4072bb18992de7c0e3817d363ddeb.jpeg "Flying Boat over the Clouds - Blender CGI Animation - Cycles X") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvzSHRmQyk)

 ![0090](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/1/3/3/133e74a3bfb04157d156f380e1df2e37509756e2.png)  
 ![0120](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/8/0/6/806f04b3445a7afa954f6379e1922672dcc67e69.png)  
 ![0120](https://blenderartists.org/uploads/default/original/4X/1/4/7/147ca3ccf569baf79f3a1888d73740e3ef7a04cb.png)

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**Author:** ![bartv](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/bartv/32/1477233_2.png) [@bartv](https://blenderartists.org/u/bartv)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 8:06am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468/2 "2023-05-19T08:06:55Z")

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**Author:** ![vicube\_animation](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/vicube_animation/32/1027944_2.png) [@vicube\_animation](https://blenderartists.org/u/vicube_animation)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 8:30am UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468/3 "2023-05-19T08:30:25Z")

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Thank you Bart!

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**Author:** ![Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/karlb/32/593679_2.png) [@Karlb](https://blenderartists.org/u/Karlb)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 5:15pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468/4 "2023-05-19T17:15:53Z")

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I love those clouds. VDB objects?

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**Author:** ![vicube\_animation](https://blenderartists.org/user_avatar/blenderartists.org/vicube_animation/32/1027944_2.png) [@vicube\_animation](https://blenderartists.org/u/vicube_animation)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2023, 5:39pm UTC](https://blenderartists.org/t/flying-boat-over-the-clouds/1464468/5 "2023-05-19T17:39:26Z")

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Thanks! Yes, all clouds are vdb objects 🙂