A Work in Progress: Tesla's Coil

This guide was made for entry:
Tesla's Coil
In Contest:

step 1 of 8

Learn how to do this a long time ago from some sort of tutorial.. basically you just render clouds on a gradient back and invert
then change the levels until you get some lightening like images.

step 2 of 8

draw circle white
burn edge
burn edge (highlight) more
then add a stone marble pattern 50% opacity

step 3 of 8

blue omni light render blend

step 4 of 8

squish the sphere and repeat to build the coil

step 5 of 8

start building a lightening back ground on a gradient back ground

step 6 of 8

lens flare the sphere, add shadows and gauss blur behind the lightening etc... etc..

step 7 of 8

change color of coil and add burning... add marble pattern to back wall with bright center, add gradient floor with border etc... etc...

step 8 of 8

Arrangement of pieces in front of the background...

shading and finish blurring for depth and shape

Final result

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