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Game Informer Coverby *steve-burg

Digital Art / 3-Dimensional Art / Scenes / Futuristic & Sci-Fi

I don't often get to do artwork for publication, but this was certainly a major highlight - the cover for Game Informer Magazine

This art was generated in October 2007, using various assets created by myself and Character Art Lead Ken Bishop. Ken made the hero suit from my design, the gun, and the background soldiers from his own concepts. I made the mechs, the terrain, and the environment. If you look closely, the strange alien structures are visible in the distance, although there's a lot of atmosphere hiding them

Once a concept sketch was approved for the final composition, Animation Lead Robert Coddington then posed the figures. The meshes were "frozen" in position and placed in the 3D environment, and I rendered out all the various passes and alpha masks I would need.

The scene was assembled with all the elements posed together, but each element was rendered in separate passes for maximum control over the final image.

The ground was a heavily subdivided mesh deformed with a displacement texture.

It was quite a coup for our project to land a cover story with GI! I doubt anyone imagined that "Tiberium" would be canceled a year later - not in their wildest dreams

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The whole scene was rendered in Lightwave, and then a lot of fine tuning was done in Photoshop.

I had modeled the helmet as part of the overall design process for the character and his armor, which had transpired 6 months previously. The helmet was designed to articulate open and closed, although that's not apparent in a still image.

All the assets shown here were made for a pre-rendered announcement trailer with CG animation done at Eden FX in Hollywood, produced during the summer months of 2007.

Since I've always harbored aspirations to do book covers, this illustration was quite a welcome challenge, not to mention it being a real honor to illustrate for a nationally distributed publication

Image copyright: Electronic Arts, 2007

Credits - (because this was a collaborative effort

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Design, lighting & rendering, illustration: me
Human figures and weapon models: Ken Bishop
Figure poses: Robert Coddington

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~ExquisiteDragon Apr 29, 2013

This makes me depressed, was looking forward to this game.

~reconman252 Mar 23, 2013

Great work, but I just started receiving game informer about 2 years ago. I wish I could have gotten this one!

~MalletMann Mar 15, 2013

The concept art for this game was probably amongst my favorite. Good job.

~XHallow Feb 7, 2013

you should look at on bungie destiny concept has anyone tell it looks like yours even the gun theres can you tell whats up with that

~TomoFromFire Feb 5, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

THIS IS SO COOL

~lunanspirit Nov 29, 2012 Student Writer

I'd like to point this out to you..
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*ksn-art Sep 21, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

awesome! i love

~wrath9 Jul 18, 2012

Hmm reminds me of that one video scene from Comand & Conquer Tiberium, what a shame that they never finished it(damn you EA or whoever else was responsible for that this time around) but over all it is a fantastic action pacted picture. So, tribute where it's due.

~TheLastIronMan Sep 14, 2012 Hobbyist Writer

Actually it was the game's designers themselves that ultimately decided to can the initial concept of the game and it eventually evolved into Tiberium Twilight, due to large amounts of FAN DISAPPROVAL. That says something about future innovation of franchises.

~VitaZheltyakov Jun 12, 2012 Professional Digital Artist

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