"Nature vs Machines" - Crash of Cars - Splash Screen

Splash screen image I created for Crash of Cars's mid-year update of 2023. That update had a loose theme of 'Nature vs Machines', as we included a plant car and a giant boulder, and also a destructive tank/tractor hybrid and combine harvester as new vehicles.

I wanted to create a sense of movement and urgency in the composition, and sought to achieve that through the arrangement of a 'hunter becomes the hunted' structure, as I moved up in scale from the smallest 'character' to the largest, layering up as I went back in the image.

I worked with some dynamics tools in Maya during the creation of this image, namely for creating the river and the flamethrower using Bifrost fluids.