How I created this moody Sci-Fi City in Blender

In this tutorial we create a dystopian sci-fi city in Blender 3.0.
Download the project files here: rescan.gumroad.com/l/moody-city
Do you have any questions? Just let me know in the comments.
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[@lemming77gode]

I love how simple yet beautiful this scene is. Maximum efficiency! What everybody wants in CG. Hats off

[@Rescan]

Thanks ;)

[@titans7455]

This dude right here makes the best breakdowns hands down. he tells us it all, love it.

[@lewalexzy5257]

No cap

[@Rescan]

Thanks a lot :)

[@bluebaconjake405]

Omg! Another amazing tutorial/breakdown and perfect timing too! I was just trying to figure out how to make good atmospherics and then you uploaded

[@ZendenKing]

hope this channel blows up in a big way. you're awesome!

[@ahmedshakib3883]

This straight up top notch.Fantastic.

[@TheMaxthesis]

one section of this was really EXHAUSTING

[@subhasishmitra2885]

I really love the mood of this ... amazing work.

[@brandonjacksoon]

Dude, this is a really cool tutorial! Thank you! Liked and subscribed)) Please, keep rocking with a high quality tutorials ;) Really glad that I found your channel!

[@DommoDommo]

Clicked this video on a whim, really enjoyed it and your process. Made me feel like I could do it too!

[@lamiaalbeeybe9689]

i cant believe i only discovered your channel today, thank u so much for your videos!!

[@everInfinity]

Thank you so much for the effort, you're helping so many people, love your work thanks!!

[@TruthSurge]

I learned two things watching this. I suck at navigating the modeling tools and I suck at texture nodes. hehe the concepts are easier to grasp than the shortcuts and where those are to do the manipulation of the mesh. I think those nodes in texture mode are the most confusing things. Great demonstration of how to get a cool scene from pretty basic structures.

[@adxr9971]

Honestly best guide I've found so far!

[@BlenderFan]

Great tutorial and thanks for showing your very helpful workflow.

[@tsunchoo]

Great tutorial and project files, I gotta work thru this, cheers man

[@AhmedNassef]

This deserves more exposure.. I admire the whole thing process and result.. Looking forward to seeing more..

[@Rescan]

Thanks :)

[@RetroPlus]

It looks so good! Super underrated channel

[@shamz_ai]

atmosphere looks so good

[@zdtuttauniversity2715]

dude you killed this tutorial, thank you so much, Danke!!!!

[@user-tj4yg8ly6m]

Thank you so much, brother, for producing such a detailed tutorial, and returning the source files. I hope that brother can create a foggy forest scene! ! !

[@Rescan]

Added to my list ✅

[@CritelliArt]

Nice work! I might have to do breakdowns in this format from now on.

[@graphicarklightingdesign]

thanks very much for this very impressive tutorials

[@omrshots]

This is amazing !

[@damianthompson1591]

Love it, love it, love it. More, more, more. please.

[@shakh_3d]

*25:30** You could make three cameras in one scene, anyway it looks cool* 🔥

[@santiagorivas1570]

I haven't seen the video yet but I guess it's going to be amazing, keep up! Greetings from Argentina.

[@MrTandogant]

Nice man, gives Blade Runner atmosphere :)

[@madnessgraphics]

ufff, and I thought you would not upload it again :) so I repeat: great tutorial!

[@Rescan]

Thanks a lot. Apparently KZbin got stuck processing the video so you would not be able to watch it in 1080p. Strange, but fixed now. Thanks for your patience ;)

[@user-ll9ln1uu4b]

Love it! Volumetric kick ass:))

[@Rescan]

Yeah really love volumetrics too. Makes everything look cool

[@owwahow]

I love you keep making more videos it fuels me

[@mousemadecontent2126]

Hey, großartiges Video - das Ergebnis sieht wirklich episch cool aus :).

[@Rescan]

Dankeschön ;)

[@GrandeGio95]

We need a part two of this !

[@dotnexdotnex4545]

damnn thats really awesome

[@TheMaxthesis]

great tutorial

[@kianusteve9633]

new subscriber to your channel. Great stuff

[@omrshots]

So inspiring

[@Fafmagic]

Thanks for sharing the full process. Great looking scene. You should be using geometry nodes though to make your process more efficient.

[@sibudi6158]

thank you!

[@SourceAwareness]

Many Thanks!!

[@jon_do]

Instead of scaling on X and then on Y, scale with S and then shift+z to scale X+Y while maintaining Z unchanged.

[@sci-figameguy8241]

Cool but... Wish you said what you did to open up some of those quick menus and had more specific instruction in the beginning

[@omrshots]

More of these plz

[@gregoryj6901]

Nice tutorial but hard to follow along for beginners without knowing what keys you're pressing.

[@user-bc6gc3wy5l]

niceee

[@foolers94]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!, I love this minimalistic style too, its closer to some futuristic brutalism, idk. Btw, I did everything as you did in the tutorial but it was impossible for me to achieve the glass transparency and other little extras that didn't worked for me, don't know why... but despite that, THANK YOU again.

[@Rescan]

Thanks a lot. Had a look into this futuristic brutalism. Pretty impressive architecture but really dark vibes. Concerning the difficulties with the glass shader: Have you enabled alpha blend transparency in the material settings and activated reflections as well as the checkbox for refraction in the render settings?

[@foolers94]

@@Rescan Hey!, sorry for the late. I did everything as you in the tut, haha, but it didn't worked that way, such as the reflections of the glass, also the light point you put inside the 'rooms' i can't see it in my project, like the glass effect isn't working to see thru it, just reflects, and much more, but i'll try to figure out and rewatch the video.

[@faj6485]

@@foolers94 try this : Render → Screen Space Reflections → Refraction ON

[@Cutting2Night]

Very cool moody scene :) Could you elaborate a little more on why good topology can be important for pre rendered scenes (1:25)? I get why it is important for real time rendering but not why I would have to focus on this topic in scenes like these...

[@Rescan]

Yeah doesn't really matter if you just want to create a quick previs or something for yourself. But in a professional environment I would always recommend to use good topology because its important for texture artists, animators, and everyone else who is involved.

[@jonlemley7102]

Not that it makes much difference to the end result, but volumes in Eevee are only cubes. Adding bevels to the geometry of the volume doesn't do anything, as the shader will extend to the bounds of the object, not the geometry. There are plenty of hacks to get around this limitation, but as you have it in this demonstration, it's just superfluous.

[@Rescan]

Totally right. Though the same as I watched it again. Bevelling does absolutely nothing. Thanks for pointing it out. Add the volumetric shader directly to the world environment and you're good to go. No need for a volume mesh whatsoever.

[@alessandroconstantini5941]

Your instructions are always crystal clear and easy to follow through, I'm finding your videos to be extremely helpful to me. Subbed, and many thanks!

[@Rescan]

Thank you :)

[@odriden1696]

Honestly, I've tried everything exactly and double checked every option and step , but mine doesn't look great at all. It looked like a much lower quality scene. The reflections acted weirdly and lighting inside the room clips through the seams. I don't know if it's because this was an alpha version used in the video and it has been changed, but I've no idea what I've done wrong. I might compare it to the project file and see what went wrong. Overall I love your videos man, such amazing renders! I look up to being able to make things like you Update: the project file I downloaded looked exactly the same as the video on my computer. I checked my project file and everything is exactly the same in terms of values and shaders, but it doesn't reflect nor look the same. I'm just confused why that's the case even though I'm replicating it a 100%

[@dinkelbaecker3100]

Can you do a tutorial on how to create a city in blender that has a new york city style? plssss

[@Rescan]

Added to my list ✅

[@dinkelbaecker3100]

Omg thank you!!

[@tryitworks]

nice tutorial! :)) thx so much! one question: what do you mean when you say the topology isn't good or not production ready? what else would you do to achieve that?

[@Rescan]

I created a lot of ngons. This works for that scene but it would be better practice to make everything quads. Also I should be naming objects, materials, etc.

[@tryitworks]

@@Rescan thx sooo much for that quick and easy answer! now i see what you mean :)

[@user-ou7wd2gx9z]

I used xray (alt+z) to select inner faces of glasses by hande, but maybe there is some shortcut to select inner faces?

[@edengibson1079]

hey man, just a quick question rekated to exrs. you said you exported it as an exr sequence, but after effects ruins the sequence due to not really supporting exrs. what did you do?

[@dighady]

How to assign the glass to the inside and outside, I managed to do the outside only

[@user-ou7wd2gx9z]

Hey! Thank you for your great tut! I'm really new to blender and i can't figure it our why is your rendered shading viewport is black could you tell me please?

[@Rescan]

Do you mean in the beginning? I accidentally left the render engine set to evee. Changed that as soon as I noticed. Than it used global illuminatoon correctly. Am not quite sure what you mean. If you can give me a time stamp I might be able to help you. :)

[@gia6288]

@@Rescan at 3:45 your render view is black, while mine is still gray. how do you change the default lighting to be black?

[@nineteen9557]

@@gia6288 you need to go to the world tab, click on the surface and scroll up and click remove, then you'll be good!

[@leonardodaniel4038]

Heey i got a question: If i decided to make this composition on Cycles the lighting effects going to be more realistic or we don't have some difference?

[@artifyr]

for some reason the IOR has this black area on the glass that i can't fix no matter what... I mean, i can fix it, but that just ruins the entire reflection... any way to fix this?..

[@maximeperenna6189]

first

[@jimmianimates918]

i can not get the glass to work, when i assign it nothing is happening...and i dont know how to get the inside face EDIT: never mind i got there, i just had to brute force it haha

[@bingbongthegong]

can you please share your fix for this?

[@jimmianimates918]

@@bingbongthegong just saw this...man i cant really remember, i think i had an extra like face i needed to delete if i remember right.

[@gabrielhausen_]

I have managed to get up to the point where you add the cube and use principled volume to create the fog but for some reason mine doesn't work :( Any idea why that might be?

[@gabrielhausen_]

Figured it out! I wasnt changing to cycles mode

[@excellentmarcus8877]

a really beautiful tutorial but I ran into a little problem. I am unable to merge the lights of the spaceship (the spot and the two points), and I am unable to create the animation because they do not stick together. How did you do it?

[@Rescan]

Thanks :) You can't join meshes amd lights together. Instead select your lights first, and the ship last, then press ctrl+p and parent the lights to your ship. If you move the ship, the lights should follow. You can animate that motion too.

[@kiranp7047]

looks like this is more inspired from Tomasz Artur Bolek 3d artworks from behance

[@N.E.U.R.O]

Do I need blender 3? I can only use 2.91

[@Rohitthakur-dq5uw]

I just can't make the light inside the room...like it's not happening..

[@repeattuber2331]

1:29 can you please explain, I am stuck .

[@stefanialaspalmas9773]

I dont know what you click :/

[@Riker20]

mach doch mal tutorials auf deutsch ;)

[@Rescan]

Vllt. auf nem Zweitkanal mal. Überlege ich schon etwas länger. Mal schauen 😉

[@slvrstvk]

I do everything as in the video, but the result is much worse. I do not understand why?

[@Rescan]

Share a link to your Image and I will have a look.

[@tohrofficial1528]

Is this a tutorial or a show ? Things go so fast smh

[@Rescan]

Have a look at the project file in the discription. You can go through it in your own pace.

[@tohrofficial1528]

@@Rescan I’ve just started blender so even going that way i won’t get anything. I tried to follow every steps you done until i got stuck. You were using a lot shortcut tho

[@tohrofficial1528]

But your creations are 🔥 anyway 👍🏿

[@Rescan]

@@tohrofficial1528 Yeah thats right. Thanks fort your feedback. :) I've reduced the speed in my latest tutorials by a bit. Should be easier to follow now.

[@eva-jj3dz]

It's not the moody Sci-Fi city, it's Moscow