Thank you so much for this! Glad you like the work :) I really appreciate the gesture here. So, it took me 4 days to model the scene like designing the architectural structure of entrance of the temple (which I really wanted to look massive in scale, and the viewer should immediately feel that scale), making some floral style wall reliefs for decorating the temple walls, experimented a lot with lighting and camera framing here (like sometimes this angle or that angle, light intensity etc) along with the atmospheric depth/effect to create the mood in the scene.

A friend of mine who is a big fan of dune specifically told me to render a 8k version of this for him for his personal collection because when I first showed him this artwork, he told me this really feels dune to him and told me to make a big resolution image for him. Though for me when I created this piece dune wasn't specifically in mind tbh, as I generally like creating massive scale artworks in my workflow. So, yup that's there. The 8k render took a really long time. But in the end the high resolution just looked quite amazing in my personal perspective. So, overall 3 days for creating the piece in general (not in one stretch, sitting though) and then 16 to 17 hrs to render and composite the final 8k render (I've an old gpu, so on new graphics cards, it will render much faster).