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Here’s the final render.
It’s a recreation of a render by @Mohamed_Chahin:
Read more about how it went over on The Blend.
The original is still a bit richer in color and shadow, but I’m happy with my result…almost.
I wanted to change things up.
First, I tried changing the colors. I did an orange version:
Then a frozen, wintry version:
They’re both cool but the original is still my favorite.
Next, I’m going to animate it. I want this little world to feel alive. First thing I’m going to do is figure out how to simulate the smoke.
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Ok got a little simulation going. Looking pretty neat, but slow rendering in Eevee.
(Just for viewing. Will use Cycles later.)
What do you think so far?
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Here’s what the node tree for the smoke looks like so far.
I couldn’t get it to look nice at all, but then I added a modulo node + a switch node so that it only animates on 2s.
Somehow that made everything work at the correct speed and scale—I need to figure out why 
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New animation attempt.
Quick Cycles render.
And look, the trees even move!
Did those with shape keys. The smoke is glitchy though—guess GeoNodes for sim doesn’t totally work yet 
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