The Valley of Clouds began as an exploration of Corona’s volume material and trying to achieve the feeling of flying above a foggy city. I wanted to push the boundaries of the volume shader to see if I could get a result that I hadn’t seen before. I started by building city blocks of night buildings from evermotion and then painstakingly adjusting the parameters of the fog material and surface modifiers to get a good result. Once I had the cloud material in place the rest of the scene evolved into a dreamy mountain landscape to further push the narrative of stumbling a hidden futuristic city hidden in the valley.