Image created for story art illustration for Digital Extremes game.
I began by placing ingame prefabs in Unreal Editor to create the fortress, and its security barricades. When I had the silhouette and eye flow desired for the photograph a screenshot was taken into photoshop to continue the rest of the scene.
In Photoshop I painted in the atmosphere, details, sfx, color palette, movement, lighting, terrain, water, sky, etc.
I attached the before and after thumbnails from start of production in Unreal Ed to final at the bottom.
Hope you enjoy. Thx
Credit for in game prefabs used, goes to DE environmental artists.
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