For the game title Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, STARNO applied its expertise in matte painting to engineer Skyboxes. In the realm of game development, skyboxes are critical 360-degree environments that wrap around the game engine's playable area, providing the essential backdrop that defines a world's scale, atmosphere, and lighting.
This mandate focused on creating various celestial and planetary environments for the game's interplanetary missions. These digital environments were meticulously crafted to integrate seamlessly into the game engine, ensuring that players felt a total sense of immersion while battling across the far reaches of the solar system. By blending scientific astronomical data with cinematic artistic direction, we helped bring the haunting beauty and peril of deep space to life.
Due to the strictly confidential nature of this project and non-disclosure agreements (NDA), the specific high-resolution assets and individual matte paintings produced for this title cannot be displayed publicly.
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare takes the franchise to unprecedented heights, venturing beyond Earth's atmosphere into a future where Earth’s nations have expanded into the solar system to find life-sustaining resources. However, a radical splinter group known as the Settlement Defense Front (SDF) threatens the very existence of Earth, sparking a massive interplanetary war.
Frédéric St-Arnaud
Activision / Infinity Ward
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