newtek-mancubusA recent polish CG Forum contest asked artists to render a picture describing a sci-fi scene of a bioweapons experiment gone horribly wrong, and the soldiers resorting to the final alternative: nuclear weapons.  Waldemar Bartkowiak used Newtek’s LightWave and Zbrush to create the fantastic image shown above, and describes it in the newest LightWave Newsletter.

I used LightWave, ZBrush, Photoshop and Fusion to create the image. Most of the objects are 3D. Some of them are quite low poly (like the characters or containers). This is because of the small amount of time I had for this contest, and the fact that the objects are visible mostly from a long distance. I tried to put as much into the textures as possible, and do as little modeling as possible to cut down on time taken and lighten the scene.

via NewTek LightWave – Newsletter.