I call the city project unsuccessful, i think i went for something that was too much for me to handle. I might come back to it in the future…
Anyway, I was looking through my blender folder and found this cool idea i came up with a while ago, and never finished. So here it is (first 2 renders), and after messing with it i got this…(3rd render.)
Still not exactly sure what this is and where this would be…
Any name suggestions? Lava Apparatus, doesn’t seem right…
From sdfgsdfg idea(down below) “LES mk2 (Lava Energy Source)”
maybe these?
*Lava Power Generator
*Lava Energy Generator
Ok so i added some lights and stairs…
Right now i am working on the environment as a whole. Making a lava canyon. If anyone else has a better idea post it
Not sure why the beam of lava came out different…i guess it is cause i messed wit the base of it…
Love the lava (fountain?) and the base of it. Not feeling the environment. It needs to be either in a building of some sort (maybe a cave in that area) or at least have some other structure near it. Not sure, but I love where this is going!
Edit: Just noticed the little people in the last post. That thing is huge! Which makes it even cooler. Maybe have multiple streams of lava coming out? or tubes or something.
I think this is going to be some sort of a power generator rather than a laava fountain, but then i dunno. Tell me what you think when you see the this update.
I had to cap the other end of the lava off somehow so i devised this system.
The blue stuff is supposed to be energy shields/beams, and blue lights on the center disks and the stairs.
Curious is that what you guys thought they where, or did you guys have no idea at all?
As for the background, i am not too fond of it either, but i definitely want it to be in some sort of a lava place…
I dont think anywhere near a city? I have an idea to add some sort of a control building next to it, and maybe a blimp dock, and a blimp in the background?
As always, if anyone has any ideas, i am open to suggestions.
I actually have the compositor set up to do that but it needs to be fixed…(see the images with the black background)
I tried to “scetch out” my idea, so yeah, rough blocks for the buildings… the big one is the docking building for the ships…the other is the control for the lava device…
Steam sounds like a great idea, but i am not really sure how to make it…(Somoke sim??)
Any ideas on the environment?
Maybe i should just scrap the whole scene and just render it in the black background like the renders in the beginning?
Smoke sim or old method, particles with planes. Hm - and yet again I’ll point to valuable rescource - BlenderArt mag : ) Look issue 16 http://blenderart.org/issues/
…Am I in love or sth? Or maybe just because when I was modelling space scene issue 9 was just released? ; )
Another ideas - ‘cracked’ surface, stalagmites, stalactytes… Maybe bridges? I’ll point to concept art world (http://conceptartworld.com/). Some of pics really inspires.
Just lights Like all the other lights on stairs so you can see them and you dont trip
Even now knowing what they are supposed to be, they still look like lights - if they are some sort of shield or beam, you should show it
Like all the other lights on stairs so you can see them and you dont trip 
