Diaboli - Volcano Eruption

DIABOLI CASE STUDY -- The first big reveal of our bad guy. I guess you could call Satan incarnate... a bad guy? The goal here was to FEEL THE SCALE and there are 2 tricks to that that aren't so obvious. One is to make sure there is a clearly readable ground plane that goes BACK into the shot. Ideally with a scale cue like a person so that when you see the CLOSE person and the FAR person you get that the far person is far. The second is the "GREEBLES" a made up word that means little bits of detail. For an image like this it's critically important to look at real volcanos and make sure the smoke greebles are the right SIZE to match their distance and size. It's such a simple thing to pay attention to but is so often overlooked.
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Art By: Piotr Krynski
Creative Director: Shaddy Safadi