Pripyat, Ukraine. 1987.
It’s been a year since the incident but the air is still rotten enough to kill. The town sign lies in wait to greet people the way it used to. No one is coming back.
Modeled in Blender 2.59. Textures and post in Photoshop. Rendered with Octane demo.
Edit: Bought Octane. Full HD render further down the thread.
aermartin, the nazist have used similar style for their monuments. But you are wrong: usually they are not futuristic, rather conservative, to look good in the aparatchik’s eyes. Some of them were erected even during my lifetime…
… In these first days of May 1986 the weather was fine, and I was just on a trip, in the countryside :(.
Great work, love the compositing
it reminded me somehow of a book on soviet architecture, “Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed” with, well, huge concrete futuristic shapes
Looks great!!!
Now back to reading Strugatsky brothers
Here in ex-YU states is also a bunch of those massive concrete monuments and buildings ( I believe it’s called “socrealism”).
And somehow with this new, fancy steel and glass buildings, those concrete monsters are actually starting to look good…
Thank you kind sir, just gave me an idea for a new project.
I wish it was larger so i could set it as my desktop photo … hint … hint … 1920 x 1080p :eyebrowlift: . Very cool > would also like to know how you did the amazingly dramatic clouds . :eek: