Mike Chambers

Original concept art alongside the final Beyond Light teaser art I work on in 2020. Beyond Light was an especially memorable project to be part of. It was our first @DestinyTheGame expansion developed during COVID, with the team working remotely, which brought a unique set of challenges. Even so, it remains one of my favorite expansions to have worked on, and this teaser art is still one of the pieces I'm most proud of. Tonally, we were inspired by some of @sungchoiart early Europa concept work, particularly a concept of a Guardian at a campsite looking out toward the Pyramid. We wanted to capture the feeling of embarking on a solitary journey to a new moon and discovering the Darkness subclass Stasis for the first time. I used this key art as an opportunity to focus heavily on the environmental rendering, making sure the frozen, icy landscape came through as a defining element. The final foreground was built using a combination of bespoke 3D modeling in Maya and advanced displacement maps in KeyShot, using textures from Quixel Megascans. The Pyramid ship and skybox in the background began as in-game screenshots that I captured from @Bungie skybox artist Mark Goldsworthy, which I then painted over and exaggerated in Photoshop. I assembled the final image and completed all post-processing and finishing work in Photoshop. At 38,000 x 15,000 pixels, 300 dpi, it was one of the largest files I've ever created, built with the expectation that it could ultimately be printed as a large-scale wall piece or art print. artstation.com/artwork/Aq6vb…