I'm just right in the middle of creating of all 9 towns from my favorite old strategy game «Heroes of Might and Magic III».
And this is the first one, Dungeon! I really wanted to keep the original atmosphere from the game, but also I wanted to refresh 99’s graphics and to add some of my thoughts and ideas about the construction screen, composition and so on. This image is something that always was in my head while I was building and listening to the beautiful music in this town. I had a dream that someday new part of «HOMM» in the spirit of old times would arrive… So, I created something like I wanted by myself :D
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Also, I’ve challenged myself to create all towns in different software. I wanted to answer to the question «Which program is the best choice for an illustrator or concept artist?” Here I used 3D-Coat, Octane Standalone and Gravity Sketch a bit for the cave walls. This is a perfect combination for dark scenes with volumetric light and big amount of geometry – my voxel grid with millions of stones was awful but Octane handled it! I added all of my researches in my online course, but it’s only in Russian, sorry.