Futuristic Cyberpunk inspired Ships and building concept.

I imagine this as a small city in the future owned by an evil corporation where people work and manufacture goods and services.

People are walking around going from their vehicles into the city, the line of people by the neon sign is waiting to get inside to start their work day.

Flying vehicles are taking off and landing around the city, with a large fleat of ships flying in formation overhead.

Above is some images to show how the scene progressed. I started with the buildings in maya, added some drones and other ships to build a composition rendering in Arnold as I worked on it.

I then started to play with different ship configurations until I had something I liked

I used Mash to distribute the large cluster of vehicles in the sky, adding random transforms to the cluster of vehicles

I renderd out AO, Depth and ID passes to assist with compositing in Photoshop.

Once I had a final render I began combining additional effects and adjusting things.

1. This was my initial composite I had some atmosphere in my render but I add some more in photoshop using my ID masks to push the buidlings back more to give it more depth.

2. I added some effects to the Hereo drone in the upper right hand corner of the image. Thrusters and strip lighitng on the bottom of the drone to make it look cooler.

3. Here I added more effects to the other ships in the parking lot, and added humans walking around to add more sense of scale to the image.

4. I added smoke and lighting to the buildings, added some neon signs to give it more of a Cyberpunk type of feel to the final image.

Wireframes of some of the individual vehicles and buildings.