Nuclear Escalation

Here's a recent cover illustration for Al Majalla on the Escalating Nuclear Arms Race. It was a relatively quick turnaround job and the brief was to produce an illustration on the theme with a similar tone to a previous commission on the Space Race. I'd loved making that image so immediately knew I would enjoy this one despite the ominous subject matter. In Cinema 4d I modelled some missiles based on image research of the nukes different countries were flaunting. I experimented with lighting, textures and dynamic camera positions in Redshift then rendered out some frames to produce three work-in-progress visuals in Photoshop, the other two are presented here. I was happy to proceed with the chosen illustration as it was a different composition to the Space Race piece and had an appropriately aggressive race dynamic to it. Really pleased with how it turned out, another much appreciated commission from talented Creative Director Sara Loane. See more work for Al Majalla on the main site here.