Having to spend more time at home due to the COVID lock-down last year, I set myself a goal to learn, create and post CG art online on a regular basis. This piece marks a huge milestone in my 8 years of CG self-learning journey. The Sammezzano Castle was abandoned in World War II the key to immortality may have been left untouched since then, but the undying spirits and immortal “hosts” have been passed on as Tuscan folktales of legendary creatures and vampires living among the rest of mortal beings like us. These ornaments are believed to be enchantment symbols that complete the ancient Alchemical door – a gateway where undying spirits were conjured during enchantment ceremonies, possessing mortal “hosts” in return of immortality. The White Rotunda in particular, out of the 365 rooms within the Sammezzno Castle, is overlaid with delicate ornaments shaped like plants and elaborate geometrical carvings. Tuscan folklore has it that the Sammezzano Castle, an Italian palazzo located in the town of Reggello constructed during that period, occupies an incomplete ancient Alchemical door that could be traced back to spiritual alchemy from the Roman times. 'Magic and alchemy flourished in the early days of the Grand Ducky of Tuscany, when the laws of free of religion were promulgated and the study of science was popularized. Software used: Houdini, Redshift, Cinema4D, ZBrush, Rhino, Character Creator and Marvelous Designer. On Instagram and Artstation I will soon upload some stuff. That’s why I participated in this challenge to get some attention. I don’t know exactly how many hours but if I had to guess it was maybe around 20h.Īfter years of working in the advertising industry and architectural visualizations I wanted to finally build an online portfolio with more personal work. I’ve been working on this picture in my free time alongside client projects whenever I could find a few free hours. After that I defined an interesting camera composition, and then I built everything else around it.

I started without a draft directly with a rough model of the portal in C4D. Will mankind take this second chance and do better this time? The idea is that nature could have recovered after a few million years.

'The world is destroyed, but mankind has found a way to transport itself into the future with a portal.

Software used: Cinema 4D, Corona Renderer and Photoshop.

Cgboost blender