I started off from a large panoramic image and painted out all the modern greeblies. The furnace to the rear was made up from several images. However I encountered several problems with perspective so I used Sketch Up to make a maquette. The river is painted. There has been a lot of painting in this. Most of it hopefully invisible.

The file size was at 9k which enabled fine detail to be painted in. A lot of this is lost when downscaled. I have to remember that HD will show the flaws. This is a mixture of real photographs and fine art painting.

I have left this as a clean plate, this will be used for a camera mapping exercise so particles and volumetrics will be used later.

There is a WIP on the digital matte painting forum if you are interested in following from conception to finished piece.

Look forward to seeing you there

Rich