Burn Scar

This was a piece I worked on for a friends community project. Was super exciting piecing this together as every part (except the character scan) was done completely custom. The trees were made with The Grove addon for Blender... which is absolutely mind bogglingly cool. Definitely check out The Grove. This is also the densest scene I've ever made. Tons of particle systems, tons of high res textures, and micro displacement on everything made it very hard to render without crashing - HOWEVER, I rendered this using the new CyclesX alpha update for Blender. Which believe it or not, made my 4k render jump from 3 minutes to freaking 1:30. I don't know how the Blender team did it but yeah... Feel free to ask anything your curious about! Thanks