All Seeing Tree + process video

Hey everyone,
it's been a while! It was very silent around me the last few months, but I'm planning to come back strong with new work, new ideas, and more insight into my workflow! Since I started teaching at New3dge, I have loved to share and try to inspire everyone interested in looking over my shoulders. Especially sharing my love for VR!
So I've decided to record my whole process of a personal concept piece, from initial ideation, writing down ideas, reference gathering, and sketching over to building assets in VR, assembling everything in Blender, rendering it, and finishing it by painting over it.
The idea was to do all of that in one day of work, I think it took me around 10 hours in total.

About the concept:
I had that picture in my head of a tree with eyes, and I developed a story about this little kid visiting this old, mysterious all-seeing god tree to ask for the fate of its sick parents. The tone is very dark, and depressing since destiny never turns out how we hope it to be.

You can read more about the story in the process video, you just need to slow it down.

Hopefully, this is helpful for a few people, it was certainly fun to record, to set the pressure on myself, and to look at it again and make a voice-over, reviewing my own decisions and seeing how that piece was created.