Dimensional Outbreak Hover-Buy

With the release of Palladium's Rifts Dimensional Outbreak, earlier this week, I can now post the work I did for the book.

You can order the book here: [link] Please, by all means, do, it looks fantastic and everyone involved did an amazing job.

I was tasked with doing illustration of Center Spaceport in the book. All the stuff was (save one) environment shots and I had a blast doing them.

All the illustrations I did for the book I tied together with a theme of security camera shots. I used these pieces as a test for some ideas I always planned to do with Theos Ke Polemos because it's an ever present aspect (Orwellian voyeurism). All the Outbreak pieces are from some form of security or camera monitoring device and with the black & white format they all turned out pretty nice.

In this shot we have a Hover-Buy truck that looks to be getting some form of ticket for speeding on their licence soon. I really had fun doing this one. There was a pretty vivid description of how the logo looked though still enough room to have some play. This was where it went for me, kinda a 50s looking dude with a retro rocket. The truck I gave a somewhat retro-ish vibe too. If anything the stuff in the book really gave me a very Heavy Metal/MetalHurlant vibe. Cool in my book

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Pencil illustration with digital grayscale in Photoshop CS3

More to come...