Dawn of Titans Key Art
Poses for hero characters,
Poses for crowd characters
Some of the final crowd elements setup with poses and class variations. These were converted to Vray proxies for placement.
Final renders of individual hero characters and titans. I rendered a ton of layers for final comping.
Early look development for translation of game models to Max/Vray. I used the game models and textures In most cases.
Initial master layout. This evolved a little towards the end of the process, mainly to help shape the narrative.
Dawn of Titans is a mobile game from Natural Motion and Zynga and at the start of 2014 I produced this key art for the game at Realtime UK . Stu Bayley was my Art Director on this.
The main challenge was organization. Models were all posed and setup in Maya and ported to 3DS Max for layout and rendering in V-ray. I used object ID and multisub Texture to simplify the shading so there was just one shader per species.
There 8 categories of soldiers and within each category there was 5 classes. I made about 10 poses per species and ended up with a lot of variation, almost 300 distinct models. The models were them scattered using Max's paint tools. I needed to control orientation and positioning. Vray proxies were used for everything.
The closer characters and the hero characters including the Cat Riders were posed individually and placed manually to suit the narrative.