#muslim architecture
Shah-i-Zinda (Uzbek: Shohizinda; Persian: شاه زنده, meaning “The Living King”) is a necropolis in the north-eastern part of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Ensemble includes mausoleums and other ritual buildings of 9-14th and 19th centuries.
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Timbuktu
At the gates of the Sahara. The city of 333 saints. Once a center of culture and trade, house of universities and riches in the Mali and Songhai empires. As it once emerged from the sands, now being swallowed slowly by them.
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Samarkand
Look ‘round thee now on Samarcand!—
Is not she queen of Earth? her pride
Above all cities? in her hand
Their destinies? in all beside
Of glory which the world hath known
Stands she not nobly and alone?
Falling—her veriest stepping-stone
Shall form the pedestal of a throne—
And who her sovereign? Timour—he
Whom the astonished people saw
Striding o’er empires haughtily
A diadem’d outlaw—
Fragment of “Tamerlane” by Edgar allan Poe
A model based on a character I previously designed. This was my first completed project using 3d modeling, including the animation and the original dramatic music. It was all done in Blender (except the music, but probably in the future this could also be possible with Blender)
