HANSA is my tribute to Hamburg, Germany, a city I lived in for three years and where my mind still wanders when I'm feeling nostalgic. I wanted to depict a near-future version of the city where technology and tradition coexist.

This piece also became a practical testbed for the geometry node tools I've been developing. I used my own custom tools to generate all of the railings, shingles, pipes, wires, and trims in a way that's nondestructive and easy to modify, a necessity as the layout of the scene evolved heavily over production.

HANSA was made in Unreal 4.27 with all baked lighting. The water shader is 'Cartoon Water Shader' by SandVector Studios. The skybox is a painted over version of the default Unreal sky. Everything else I made myself including the posters and street art- no premade models or image generators were used.

Thanks to all the friends who gave me feedback on this, and to my partner for providing encouragement and snacks.

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