Posts tagged Terrarium

X. It would just be rude not to.

A lot of time was spent in 3D on this piece. I wanted to make sure that I pushed lighting and composition before I started painting in 2D. I reused lots of foliage from my growing library of models I created as well as some megascans from Quixel. The human model was posed and brought in from DAZ.

Above are some detailed prop and layout explorations to see what other parts of this complex might look like. Below are the quick, messy, but very important shape and composition thoughts.

2 viewport display grabs to show how things look before photoshop.

Jaz the Immortal. Time moves differently here. A long, lost astronaut seems almost immortal by comparison to some of the lifeforms here.

Paint over of the 3D models that I use whenever I compose a scene.

All Solarium aliens are based on terrarium friendly creatures. I spent a while in my sketchbook on this phase before I moved to digital.