Empyrean
Final Render

Final Render

CGI Montage

Clay Render

Clay Render

WIP Render

WIP Render

WIP (C4D)

WIP (C4D)

WIP (C4D)

WIP (C4D)

WIP (C4D) - Layering

WIP (C4D) - Layering

WIP Render Iterations

WIP Render Iterations

A personal CGI project Inspired by Carlo Bibiena's architectural fantasy drawing "A Colonnaded Stage".

"The Empyrean, known by many to be the highest transcended realm in the spheres of Heaven, is said to be utterly impossible to be described in human words.

Few warriors and exorcists who have ever traveled into the Empyrean and returned depicted it as a colonnaded garden of Eden, where angels fly around like bees, distributing peace and love; where waterlilies glide along the wind like fireflies, the petals of which are the enthroned souls of the faithful; some recounted the Empyrean as the palace of pure light, guarded by Archangels in the form of giant swans, overseeing the colonnaded garden and all souls since its existence.

Though pictured differently by many, all witnesses portrayed Empyrean as the source of all light and all creation, as traveler Dante Alighieri described in his poem "...this light, I saw, contained, bound up and gathered in a colonnaded rotunda, the leaves that scatter through the universe –beings and accidents and modes of life, as though blown all together in a way that what I say is just a simple light."