WWZ - The Great Panic

Finally finished!

You can see the ENTIRE Photoshop time lapse here on Youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp7F9k…

(Note: As this is a really old piece now I used a lot of photo reference and tracing and in my opinion it came out making the image look very static so I wouldn't recommend it myself, still, I learnt a lot from this piece!)

Here's an illustration based on World War Z that I did for my last Conceptual Illustration project for university. I handed it in a while ago but have been chipping away at it slowly to get it to where I wanted. I added colour, more details and changed a few bits around.

I tried elements of photo-manipulation in the piece as well as digital painting, it didn't really pay off how I wanted, but was an interesting learning experience.

I actually listened to the WWZ audio book on youtube as I painted it (the night before it was due haha). It's a really awesome piece of zombie fiction and the audiobook is done really well by a variety of actors. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGzFaE…

This was all painted completely in Photoshop CS5, but I used a LOT of photo references for this one and tried to get the zombies looking realistic and not too cartoony. I used a picture of my car as reference for the one in the foreground and a photograph that I took in the US for the sky. Heres the list of online references I used (the first one contains nudity):

Zombie headshot: arachnid5.deviantart.com/art/A…
Hoodie zombie: drunkhobo-stock.deviantart.com…
Running businessmen zombie: thebrig.deviantart.com/art/Run…
Crawling zombie: nhuval-stock.deviantart.com/ar…
Zombie cheerleader: mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/a…
Skull zombie: kingzombie.deviantart.com/art/…
Crouching zombie: anyman82.deviantart.com/art/Co…
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