This piece is available on NFT Showroom as part of my collection Myths & Legends.
Myths & Legends: The Path
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Process:
Everything was made using Blender 2.9 and GIMP for final composition. The modeling, sculpting, and designing of all the parts of the scene is quite simple and took me a few hours.
The procedural materials, on the other hand, and mostly the lava, took me 3 days to have a result that I am satisfied with. I tried many combinations of nodes, subdivisions, Blender settings, countless materials tryout; I rendered the scene at 5 different number of passes and realised that it looked better with less details than with more.
The lighting was also a challenged, as most lights are coming from the lava and the lamps as emission shaders. But it wasn't enough to get some nice reflections on the stones, or on the wall/doors, so I played around with volume a little bit, added a giant area light on top of the scene, just to create the reflections needed on the details of the structure and rocks.
This scene was overall a giant pain in the neck, I hope that at least you enjoy it, 'cuz looking at it right now makes my head hurt from the last 3 days spent struggling with lava.
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