Eusapia - City of the Dead
The city of Eusapia appears in the short story "Cities & the Dead 3" within the anthology novel Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. The story depicts the city Eusapia which builds an underground crypt as a clone of the city above. Within this copied city they place their dead within the same positions and poses as they were when they were alive, allowing them to "live on for eternity", or so their practice states. The story is short and gives very little in the way of proper description, other than the fact that shafts of light from wells and cracks within the cave ceiling stream down to the skeletons below, and that the air is thick with the presence of their death.
Posing the skeletons helped make the scene feel more alive, even if they weren't.
Not everyone is so thrilled to be put here.
Eusapia is said to be full of partying corpses meant to mimic an everlasting joy that is to move on.
Worked hard to get good volumetric lighting to set the mood right
I utilized modular building to minimize modeling time while still making the streets feel varied and less cookie-cutter.
The street is just a small intersection, but with curving streets, it seemed to go on much longer. The center point of the stage was built to give a focal point and also help with finding your bearing in the images.