There's no futuristic city without a constant swarm of drones and flying vehicles in the air. I imagined that a lot of commercial activities in the future would switch to a drone-based delivery system, advertisement and even technical assistance service.

So I started concepting and blocking out some different models just to get some ideas.

The first circumstance where drones would logically be used is pizza delivery. You know it, I know it, everybody knows it. So I wanted to make a simple little model, kinda cute and familiar, and I used a very common brand here in Barcelona to root it in my series (f**k copyright, if anything I'm making free advertisement for all of these companies so I can't be bothered with bureaucracy).

Anyway, this is the result:

Surely, they could be udes in warehouses and industrial facilities for logistic tasks and pusposes, such as maintenance, cleaning and basically just moving stuff from here to there. 

I also love modeling and animating industrial stuff (same can't be said about animating characters and organic matter in general) and felt really obvious to have the most characters and moving things in the frame being droids, machines, drones etc...

Rapidly, as the technology advances, drone usage would become fairly common even in private houses, public administration and small commerce: very soon after the first model were launched on the market, it became normal to see drone-waiters, drone-nurses or drone-babysitters.

The POL.O. (Poli Oculum) was the first multipurpose drone capable of a variety of fuctions: basically the first robotic personal assistant that actually worked and was quite affordable for the big public.

Around 2040, in the "Gotic" and "la Ribera" neighborhoods started growing the biggest market in Barcelona, rapidly becoming just "el mercado" (the market) for the vast majority of barcelonans.

As the years passed, the market grew in size and started looking like a little city inside the city, with his own rules, languages and factions.

The main resource around wich the entire market economy orbited was drugs: above all, the market district in Barcelona became the biggest production center of "mosto", a really common drug by 2099.

It's here where Gaia lived for about 20 years before Aristeo could be able to find her, selling natural remedies to people who couldn't afford medical treatments.

After Numerous riots and clashes between police and drug dealers, the city governor had a big barrier built around the district in order to separate the city and de dangerous place that the market had become, making it even more autonomous and dangerous.

The coprotagonist of this story is Aristeo: a human made immortal by Gaia thousands of years ago so that he could live with her, become her ally and help her in her struggle to protect the earth.

He lost contact with her since the accident and spent the last decades trying to find her, travelling from one continent to another and keeping on protecting the earth: in the last fifty years or so he occupied de facto her role as a protector of the planet.

Aristeo arrived in Barcelona in 2044, but he didn't know that gaia was there until 2099, when our story begins.

I couldn't imagine Barcelona in the future without beer (even in a dystopian, gritty, dangerous and post-apocaliptic Barcelona, people here wouldn't stop needing a "caña" and some "bravas").

So I imagined a really standard beer, the one that you would drink with a slice of pizza in front of the tv. 

"La Condal": the most common beer in Barcelona by the end of the century.

I started with a logo and a little bit of backstory before trying to render out some product shot.

I think I should try some variations, like different flavours or something like that. I was also trying to pull out a little advert for this fictional beer.

A really large number of characters came to my mind when I was starting to wonder how to populate the world I was building.

I've always loved teogonic myths, especially when they combine really ancient traditions and folklore with a cyberpunk dystopian future ambientation (and considered that this is a passion project.. why shouldn't I do exactly what I like?)

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Gaia is the ancient goddess of the earth, personification of nature and protectress of all living creature on this planet.

She exists since the beginning of the earth, working to maintain the equilibrium on the planet, but she lost her powers and her memory in 1986, due to the Chernobil accident. 

The explosions caught her while she was trying to prevent the disaster and, even if she couldn't die, the shockwave left her almost powerless and amnesiac. Since then, she lives working as a herbalist, often changing city and trying to discover who she is and where she came from.

She arrived in Barcelona in 2070 and settled in a little house in the market district, opened a natural remedies shop and slowly renounced to her quest, tired and frustrated from decades of failure.

While I was working on the main storyline and characters, I thought it would be fun to imagina some brands and products to put'em in my scenes since the beginning.

So... as a former chef, I couldn't start anywhere else than a restaurant chain.

The first Can Cranc was opened in 2021 in Sant Andreu de Palomar and it was an astounding success. It rapidly grew so much that it became the biggest fish restaurant chain in Catalonia in just a few years, opening over a dozen restaurants in Barcelona and a lot more in the rest of the region.

Soooo.. I've been experimenting for a while with some ideas and "the thing" it's only starting to get a real structure.

I was playing around the concept of Barcelona in 2099 ('cause it's where I live and 'cause it's a nice number) and I was mainly focusing on the world building aspect but gradually a story began to form in this world I was building and I couldn't stop thinking: how cool would it be to create some kind of short movie, series or at least something that take place in Barcelona by 2099.

So the idea of Barna99 was officially born.

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In 2099 Barcelona is surrounded by the desert, overpopulated and extremely polluted. The world by that year is really fragmented and crowded of differents factions and alliances. Humanity is on the verge of a global conflict for resources and habitable land.

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Nomadism became a really common lifestyle in Catalonia and a lot of little communities started forming. The vast majority of these community were pacific and just a way to survive for a lot of people, but "highway pirates" also became a thing and travelling between cities became again a really dangerous activity.