Through the Dark Portal

This project started off as a fun sculpt that quickly escalated past that. This is my take on the classic WoW login screen. I used to spend hours staring at that screen while rewatching the cinematic just to imagine what playing WoW would be like. My family's pc at the time couldn't handle much past the login screen :(

The majority of the pieces were sculpted in Zbrush, the skybox and clouds were hand painted in photoshop, the ground materials were made in Substance designer, and the VFX work was created using FluidNinja

I want to give a shout out to Robin Dao for providing some valuable feedback along this project:
https://www.artstation.com/robindao