Rekt in Rekton

Rekton Chronicles;Augmented Humanity--Chapter 4__

As biomass is being slowly leaked from the core of the city the black market have learned to monopolize and streamline this leakage into a recreational synthetic drug with parallels to our own opiates. Unfortunately for the citizens' and now very large TzuXao population the biomass has become sentient and is pulling certain device types to the leak and to then propagate very rapidly among the city establishing total control.

This piece is also a commentary on the growing opiate epidemic within America and the continued usage + acceptance of such strong chemicals. We live in a society of constant contradiction on actually wanting people to recover and then also draining their pockets. Some of which unknowingly became addicted due to ignorance in the early 90s and some knowingly--now unable to escape a habit they didn't want or fully understand in the first place. Meanwhile we educate our public servants, not only law enforcement but educators as well, even librarians. (and in some cases now even children!) on how to properly resuscitate an overdose victim. It's becoming as common place as the heimlich maneuver... Something has got to give.

Notes on detail An atmosphere of a back alley with a homeless TzuXao between a pro 'Norcan' propaganda poster and a 'Drug-free zone' sign with a box of 'Norcan' beside. A path of used needles leads up to half plunged syringes as this cyborg is barely conscious.

Notes on creation Loads and loads of custom assets in this one, combining Quixel Megascans with my own custom decals and characters resulted in a relatively GPU-light render using Blender Octane Prime, final color correction and minor compositing was done in Photoshop. shoutout to my buddy Kevin for constructive criticism + decal help!