Chaos' Heir

Hi all!

This is a commissioned book cover for author Eveofchaos, fresh out of the oven.
For some reason I seem to connect very well with this guy's ideas and every time I worked with him I loved the final result.
Must say, it's a great feeling when 'work' can be 100% fun to work on.

This time the setting is another I really love, the huge class differences and a dystopian future where those are way bigger is a theme I went for a few times already without prompt so I'm happy to explore another iteration again. :D

Here's what the book cover looks like. Lately I feel maybe I am getting the grips of the text placement and design as well... simple as this one is.

Since I don't have an animation as usual, I'm just adding some of the renders I used to work this out. The foreground I made with photos and the whole background is rendered in Blender 3D using premade Kitbashing models, then textured and edited afterwards.

In Photoshop I used a night time render as my main source, since it was the closest to what I was looking for. But I also used a daylight render to add some detail, a few parts with natural light and also add back some of the details that get lost in the darker night scene.

Last is the depth map output from Blender that helps a lot when it comes to making selections, adding masks for haze, lights, etc.