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Judith Solomon
RenderLighting3D / BlenderChallenge

Salvation

In a world consumed by darkness, a single divine light breaks through.

Role
3D artist · lighting and rendering
When
October 2025
Tools
Blender, Botaniq

Description

My final render for the Blender Guru monthly challenge, October 2025. The theme was Halloween — where death's shadow meets the promise of redemption.

Behind the scene

I entered the Guru monthly challenge on Discord to push myself on lighting specifically.

Two things came out of it that I now use constantly: building volumetric light — god rays — properly in Blender, and getting a night HDRI to actually work through careful world lighting settings. Before this, night scenes were the thing I avoided.

Final render
The render