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Warhammer 40,000: Dark Angels Land Raider

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Angels Land Raider

Warhammer 40,000: Dark Angels Land Raider by mikkow
Warhammer 40,000:  Dark Angels Land Raider by mikkow

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mikkow
A Warhammer 40,000 Dark Angels "Land Raider" matte painting for www.sabertoothgames.com which is an arm of the Games Workshop family. It is destined to be a collectible game card in the "Dark Millenium" Warhammer 40,000 game.

It's finally done. It was an interesting ride painting this. I suffered through a terrible flu early on in the process, then I had some surgery (very minor, skin only :P) which was distracting. But here it is. Through the process, I was suddenly asked to change it from the initial Space Wolves to Dark Angels. Then when it was nearing completion (or so I thought) it turns out a misunderstanding made me paint the wrong type of Land Raider design. I suppose it was fair to say the painting was no more than half done at the time. And thus I had to get back into it and redo most things. However, under some guidance from the amazing art director, the composition of the image became a lot more interesting. Ruins, rubble, Land Speeders (yes, they can actually fly more than 3 meters over the ground in some situations).

The ground and the sky incorporate parts from real photos, thus this is classified as a 'matte' painting. Everything else is completely hand painted in Photoshop 7, however. With all the repaints, it probably took upwards 16-17 hours to do. Blah eh? I want to get that number way down for future ones.

If anything, I think the angle is rather bland. So 'typical'. I'm going to try and be creative in the future.

I hope it brings you a deep sense of gothical warfare watching it.

Please do visit my real art homepage, with several more artworks!
http://mikkow.deviantart.com

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qazqaz1 on August 17, 2008, 9:51:45 AM

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qazqaz1darn sweet!

Yellow13 on July 31, 2006, 4:07:54 PM

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Yellow13This is Awesome! Looks like Dawn of War (better graphics of course)!

gruebot on June 27, 2006, 4:58:18 PM

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gruebotOff The HOOK!

dragon1 on March 29, 2006, 5:19:46 PM

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dragon1Dark angels is one of my favorit teams!

PB_SEAN on March 25, 2006, 6:32:45 PM

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PB_SEAN........O_O......... how long did that take?!

PYROFREAK on March 5, 2006, 9:17:16 AM

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PYROFREAKdis is like better than mona lisa

Edge14 on January 2, 2006, 12:49:35 PM

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Edge14WOW!!!! that's amazing

sniperelite7 on June 17, 2005, 3:11:43 PM

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sniperelite7Ack IM blind by the awesomeness!!

Cataquack2Reacto on June 17, 2005, 8:35:01 AM

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Cataquack2Reacto.......................wow!..