Behold; Lightning and Neon!
Lightning and Neon is Alex Terziev' ( https://www.artstation.com/alexterziev ) homebrew D&D campaign I and many others play in. As an ode to the entertainment he's brought us for a few years now I decided to build a Game of Thrones-esque animation (something I've wanted to do for a while).
I've lost count on how many hours it took to render it all. I'd usually let Maya render through the night while sleeping, hoping I would wake up to the smell of a succesful batch. Safe to say it took atleast 200h of rendering, and a lot of time for modelling, texturing, animation and processing. I touched these renders up a bit to make them more vibrant.
Lightning and Neon intro