Water Ville

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The setting is a bit dystopian, perhaps… the water people have built a civilisation on the flooded coastal areas of the old world. They gather what they can from the tides and live off the slowly recovering seafood…

It really has been quite a while since I last posted something… Lots to do… But now I’ve caught the Blender fever again and I’m happy to present my latest work. It is absolutely inspired by the BMS assets WaterVillage resp. @kaya (https://www.artstation.com/kayta) Find them here: https://www.bigmediumsmall.com/watervillage
The HDRI I used is from polyhaven.com, just like the power line and some minor assets.
The birds are from Sketchfab: “Crows #5” (https://skfb.ly/oPrvG) by yankobe is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

There was no post-processing outside of Blender, so everything was created with Blender 4.0 and finalised in the compositor.

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Gorgeous and immersive! :smiley:

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Thank you!

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May I ask you, what especially makes it immersive for you?

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Immersive, in the sense that this image is a window into a full world. I feel like stepping through the window into this other reality that you depict, to hear seagulls and the water lapping against the pilings, while boards creak under my feet as I walk along the dock.

You describe the back-story as dystopian, but I don’t really sense that. It might be post-apocalyptic, but there is no evidence that the people are suffering, discontented, or oppressed. Without the façade of high-priced glass+steel+glitter modernity exists a more honest world.

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Thank you so very much for your efforts with a detailed and honest answer. And I feel like you, I think. I have added a “perhaps” to my description because I also think that it feels quite good, the life, the environment we are looking into…

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I featured you on BlenderNation, have a great weekend!

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Thanks @bartv! I’m replying late, I’ve been in hiding in the Bermuda Triangle between Lemmer, Enkhuizen and Stavoren for the last few days…:sweat_smile::wink:

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