Hi,
Housing in a cliffside mine.
In this post apocalyptic mining city, built on a cliff, people take the time to contemplate, to tinker, to improve the city. The whole mine is powered by a giant paddle wheel, it circulates water throughout the city and air for the mine. Despite all this huge machinery that never stops and the inhospitable nature of the site, the inhabitants can have a sweet and contemplative life. They have another relation to time.
It’s a very long-term project that started a few months ago. There should be around 8 renderings in total. Blender 2.93 brings a big plus for the realization of assets, thanks to Geometry Nodes. I model as much as possible in non-destructive.
I realized almost all of the assets. Except for the chairs and the swing which comes from BlenderKit and the cliff backgroud which comes from Sketchfab.
Textures from : https://3dassets.one/ / https://pixabay.com/ / https://www.textures.com/library / https://www.blenderkit.com/
Edit : The second render : The mine - Greenhouse
Insta : https://www.instagram.com/antoinebagattini/
Asset with Geometry Nodes ;
Also, it was the opportunity to learn Python and develop a little (free) addon to improve my workflow :
The topic of the add-on : BagaPie Addon - #42 by chip83
Download Beta : https://gumroad.com/l/BbGVh
An example of the addon :
I would have liked to render a video for each shot, but I’ll probably wait for Cycles X. Currently, the render time was 4 to 6 minutes per frame (before the persistent images were added) in Optix with a 3090 (and a 2070S when the scene allows it).
Below here is an (old) preview of what it should look like (some places are missing : forge and greenhouse). Almost everything is home made (even plants / grass and rocks). The trees are from 3D Shaker, but I have my own models made with Geometry Nodes in Blender 3.0 (badly, at the moment applying an edit breaks the UVs).
The simulation of the waterfall is not present in the preview. We did not have satisfactory results with Mantaflow, so we went with Flip Fluid (he was able to handle a 40m simulation ! 
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