[WIP] Power - Red Alert 2 Fanart

Artwork Works in Progress
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I’ve been wanting to make this for a while now
I played Red Alert 2 when I was 7, got into Red Alert 3 when I was 13
But just recently did I fall in love with the “Power” soundtrack
So a few weeks back I thought of creating a mood piece for it
But just yesterday did I find the time to finally get to work on it

Day 0

First thing that came to mind when I hear this soundtrack is a huge tesla coil in a backdrop of 3 cooling towers.

I decided to start looking for references in the Command and Conquer Wikia and research how exactly a tesla coil works
I found this neat concept art for a mod of Red alert 2(Go give him a like!)

Day 1

I gotta say,
I love this project

It teaches me not to rely too much on one references, previously I was just slavishly copying the reference of my projects
But this project taught me that sometimes you just have to use creative freedom!(Thanks eppo!)

At this point It doesn’t look very… soviet
The poles look too smooth
It doesn’t look very big
It doesn’t look too intimidating

Attachments

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Day 2

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Had a lot of fun in day 2
I changed the secondary base with a pipe
Added some Hull plates
The Pole’s still… look… iffy

Now the coil looks a little more… intimidating.

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Here’s a sketchfab model of the coil!

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Awesome work!

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Hit a wall on how much detail I can add to the coil…
I may need to hold off on this project till I upgrade my PC…

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Wow, great work.

What’s that look (postprocessing effect?) called? Like looking through a screen, it looks very sci-fi. (I’d like to re-create it in cycles)

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Chromatic Abbreviation

Try using the lens distortion node in the compositor to recreate it in cycles

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Thanks fdfxd! I’ll give it a try.