Ancient structures coming back to life. The signal has been sent.

This piece is available on NFT Showroom as part of my collection Myths & Legends, and comes with extra downloadable content on purchase.

Get it uncompressed here!

Process:

I made a bunch of blocks and manipulated them around with the new extrude tool of Blender 2.9 to create interesting shapes, added a bunch of modifiers to it, and created a displacement map for all the columns and the building behind.

Then I decided to add rocks on the ground, bricks, debris, all of that, and create a sand texture with displacement for the ground.

Not satisfied, I added wireframe modifiers to everything with a second material, played with the displacement to create this "structure beneath the displacement" kind of effect on things.

I rendered it using Cycles at 20 samples using the AI Denoiser to create a brushy painty effect on the final render.

Bunch of composition done in GIMP to make the image more interesting, and voila!

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