City on the Edge of Oblivion

This was my project for Background Design and Layout at school this quarter: the objective of each student was to come up with a fictional environment of their own and model it using 3DS Max. For my environment I came up with a city that was built on a nicotine molecule, tethered in place within a swirling vortex of cigarette smoke. The anchor is an eternal flame (situated within an ashtray-looking structure) while the city is linked to it with chains, housing residential/commercial/industrial districts and a central governmental pylon; linked off the city's side is a docking area for vessels from other cities. I got some of the influence from the artist Tony DiTerlizzi (artist for Planescape), whose style I have admired for years ^_^.