Final Submission!
Long after cities sank and the old world was reclaimed by the tides, survivors built The Nest. A cliffside refuge overlooking the endless sea. Crafted from salvaged containers and broken industry, it stands as both home and monument, a place where echoes of the past weave with the rhythm of the waves. In the rust and salt, life endures quietly as a memory that refuses to fade.
WIP after a few more tweaks and light passes. I added some more rocks and trees on the right side for balance, some rocks in the water to break the horizontal line of contact between the cliffs and the water, cool lights to mimic moonlight on the outside and warm light in the center to attract the viewer's attention. Added some fog cards, made a niagara system for the fireflies and also added that poor fella that's floating in a boat close to the village but arrived a bit too late to be saved. He's good for scale nonetheless.
Just a quick update on my part with some WIPs, started working on 2 different lighting scenarios. Adding more highlights and post processing after tweaking the main lights.
Dwellings are done for now, also added some vegetation, time for some more propping and lighting.
A few WIP shots.
Started assembling the shacks and adding wood scraps to them.
Did a rough sketch of what it would look like, after playing around with some of the assets in the packs.
When I read the info on the challenge and browsed thru the assets, my first thoughts were the CaLiMa scene in Planet of the Apes and the movie Waterworld - a world reshaped from the bones of what came before. I thought of how people, stripped of abundance, would inevitably turn to what remains: repurposing relics, scavenging scraps, and breathing new life into forgotten shapes.
This became the seed for The Nest - a cliffside refuge built from the wreckage of modern industry by people who inherited the ruins of a forgotten civilization and reimagined them as sanctuary.
It is survival by ingenuity, a community born from the stubborn refusal to vanish.
The Nest is a hidden vantage point, precarious and resilient - from here, one can see across the ocean and sense what dangers may come with the waves.
Name: Andrei Penciu
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