Horsley's Digital Media Blog

As soon as I saw the phrase "How The West Was Won", I immediately thought war, nuclear bombs in particular (which ironically was how the West was won). At first I was going to do a matte painting of a rugged terrain but that would've been too complex for me to pull off, so I instead took a photo of the hillside off into the distance and mostly used that for the terrain reference (this is the first photo). There was a good amount of manipulation done to the photos I pulled from the internet (mainly changes to the exposure and masking) and the woman was hand-drawn.