The picture below is one of many 'landscape' studies I am doing in preparation for providing settings for the action in S'n'K. These 'studies' are done in a wonderful 3d modeling program called Z-brush (from Pixologic) which was chosen because of a special technology in the software which allows virtually infinite complexity without additional computing resources. It does this by demanding that the artist choose a singular perspective initially, and then erasing everything that is visually obscured from that viewpoint as complex layers are added...the freedom to change point of view is lost but in exchange for maximal layering depth.
This choice of technology seemed appropriate to me because S'n'K 'scapes' are essentially fractal 'cosmosii' that have detail all the way down to the molecular level. Traditional 3d would require billions of facets and mega-computer workstations to pull off this sort image.
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