Celty part 2 WIP 4

Been a while! each celty update has a similar amount of progress so I didn't want to post an update unless progress had been made. Recently had more time so I figured right at the new year would be a good moment for one of these.
this is a WIP everything is subject to change. what you are seeing is a viewport render.
A lot of time into this project is figuring out what works best and the tug of war between looking good and running good/time investment. main 2 of those being how the city works and how i can interact with it and then the smoke* yae.
the city was made using bender nodes, nice and procedural, can make a city quickly and with ease, problem becomes if you want to mess with it. because its all made with nodes means that its all just one object, i can't just move a building and you also can't simply bake it. my objective wasn't to learn nodes either so I didn't do that. solution was to find the assets that the nodes were pulling from and rebuild the towers with those.
other time sink was the smoke, this probably isn't the final version for the smoke, thinking im going to turn it into a mesh with the smoke data but right now its smoke. this takes a while to simulate. infact on black Friday I went and got upgrades for my mobo RAM and CPU to be able to run this project and smoke better. (thats a ryzen 9 7950X3D 64gigs ddr5) simulations are much faster but still take some time and if you want to change anything then its got to re sim. thank you guys for the upgrade btw <3
other then that its just more animation and learning. did my first pass with more particles, camera shake, and props.
had the thought of stopping part 2 here and making a part 3 later but thats just a thought. also might help to get some sound done and really finishing what I have here. the next part will be celty growing out of the smoke, her fading away at the end was for that. thinking you see her foot growing behind her as she drags her toes across the length of the road. then slow rising out of the fog to stand up and grow big enough to topple the tower only to mess up and fall over again into the water. growing once more and emerging out of the ocean multiple times bigger then the city to simple crush the whole thing. thats the plan anyway :P
so that could be a part 3 thing or just make it all part 2. regardless im thinking ill release this to the public in a 2-3 part format so I can have some more videos on the channels. maybe make a pass at part 1 and make a super cut vid. just thinking aloud.

alright good posting here! happy new year everyone! hope yall had a good Christmas. thank you all for your support so much! love yall peace to the new year.