That back lighting was a total fluke. Was flicking through different materials to try and find "the visual", the thing that made it start to come to life. I came across the goop material in the Apocalypse Wasteland pack and, immediately was sold and began carving out a visual that captured my imagination. 

The water reflection bit was a last minute change. So the water surface is 'SM_Env'OceanPlane' in the Dark Fantasy pack. The largest green on the water is from the directional light (Moon) in my case, and that night shimmer ( wish there was more), is from the 'SM_FX_Electricity' asset in the Dungeons pack. It was close enough to the water to get picked up which was just great cause I wasn't liking the lack of detail in the water.

Appreciate you, thanks for the comment and question!! :)

Thank you, thank you! Scale was the goal on this one, wanted to portray something immense, so glad you felt that!  Hahaha, was probably fishing, or reading his kid a bedtime story. haha

Color theory is always in the back of my head. The usual orange and teal combination was where i started and then i came across the goop material and that became the combo with the fire. 

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Hahaha, needless to say with the theme of the jam being , the prophecy, it's clear I didn't put much thought into the image title, haha!

As for the story behind it, I came up with this little 'prophecy reading':

'When the skies reign fire and the reach of a grieving child stretches out towards the heavens, a titan of hope will come forth to answer the call.'

The motivation and idea behind the image was a child standing amongst their village being burned down, and they starred up towards the sky, and from the sky came some kind of "savior". I went through a few different camera angles and environments, but ultimately landed on this one.

Elevating the child and their emotions above all else, and out in the night sky, a titan was called forth from the tears of this crying child. 

The real challenge was balancing the village ablaze without being too bright and competing against the titan, so, though I'm not super happy with the final look of the village, it's where it ended.

Thanks for the comment and your time, appreciate you!

I feel as though if I remembered that episode (The Winds of Winter), my image woulda been a lot better lol. Damn! Appreciate the reference though, that's very kind!

The green was just by happenstance. I was flipping through materials to try and find one that, told the story of this titan coming into the world. Turns out, the material, Goop, from the Wasteland pack was the winner lmao. 

Color theory is always in the back of my mind so I started with the typical orange/teal cinematic look, but once I found goop, I felt that was the color of the story here. 

Thanks soo much for the comment and reference to GoT!! Appreciate you!

Thank you, thank you!! Like some of the entries, I was going after a sort of portal of something emerging from it, but I couldn't quite land the look, so, this guy came from that attempt lol. Appreciate the comment and inspiration from your entry!!