This was made for the March contest on r/blender. I didn’t have time to post it here. But here it is now, 2 months late. Anyway the following is the description that I accompanied the post with when i submitted it for the competition.
I decided from the very begging to take a straight-on approach. I was inspired by the recent HBO series Chernobyl, and I remembered researching the incident and reading about ionized airglow. A phenomenon that occurs during a nuclear meltdown where so much radiation is being produced that it literally makes the air light up. I thought hey that would be a cool render! Well, here it is. I took quite some time and there are still improvements I would like to make.
This is my first Eevee render. I chose Eevee for the simple fact that my 1080 actually couldn’t handle the volumetrics in cycles. This meant i had to spend extra time getting the lighting right so it looked (more) real and I am actually amazed at the power off Eevee.