View "The Dawn of Battle," a Battlefield 2 graphic novel on my website.
This is an artistic vision of the popular Battlefield 2 modification, Project Reality. I went in and recorded all the action, in a single-player battle against bots. I then went in with the Battle Recorder, and took a ton of screenshots from a variety of angles.
The next step was utilizing Adobe Photoshop to construct a unique theme to the images. I went in, constructed an HDR profile of each image, then applied various lighting and coloring techniques to try to tie everything together.
Then I applied the images to the graphic novel pages, using a variety of overlays and lighting styles to blend everything together. The goal was to sharpen certain elements - like facial features and the weaponry, whilst blurring out the background. I then applied various artistic filters and blended them into the images.
The final step was adding text. I had constructed the plot before hand, so I knew exactly what was happening throughout the graphic novel. Then, I applied an action that darkened the edges and added a slight film grain throughout the page.
Whilst not the perfect graphic novel (in fact, it's "to be continued"), I felt it had a very unique, interesting visual style. Especially since the base material was, in fact, a video game. It's fun to read, even more fun to look at, despite the rather bland plot.
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