For a new release of the second edition of the game 'Blackwatch 2042 (which never actually released,) designer Ted Greer comissioned this cover to give a sense of the flavor of the world. You've got your humans along-side other alien races such as the Thenub (the big saurian on the left) and the Re'mand (the cat-like one on the right.) And in the background, a bunch of other sentients who have been taken over and turned into zombies... Yes, it's really the RPG with someonething for everyone!
I'm extremely pleased with the characters in this piece and with the softer greys in their shadows, giving the whole piece a misty, atmospheric quality. The background was modeled in Maya and 3D Studio Max, rendered out untextured, and used as a base for a lot of paintwork that went on over it. It was also really nice just to get to do an unabashedly science fiction piece!
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