After creating several other concepts, one began to take shape and gain some traction internally. An homage to the absolute legend Drew Struzan, this piece highlighted our hero against a backdrop of his foes and the fictional city of Port Desire.

After several iterations and paint overs, the layout began to click and my initial vision was coming to life. The concept was finally chosen to go into full production. To create game accurate key art, a multitude of assets needed to be extracted from the game engine. However, that process is very time consuming, so another approach was needed. My coworkers Joel Schrieber (Capture Artist) and Jaraad Nageer (Producer) devised a workflow in Unreal Engine that allowed us to capture highly detailed .EXRs of buildings and models that were captured against an alpha channel background that instantly gave us very high resolution images with perfect transparency. These were then handed off to our Art Director, Andy Fernandez, to work his magic.