#third impact

Welcome to the "Making of" section of this image. Today I'd like to talk about the process and the idea behind the image!

This illustration is a mixed Media project where I combined my Blender training with my passion for painting.

This image was my base build!

My idea was to combine the rather bleak motive we see in "the end of EVA" , the one where we see Reis multiplying and filling up spaces, with a rather hopeful note of the Evangelion Rebuild movies. I always imagined what the third impact could look like in Eva 2.0, since we didn't get to see as many "weird" imagery as we did in EoE! So thus, the idea was born after creating this model. Originally I just planned it to be a practice piece. But as I kept painting on top of it, I somehow couldn't stop and I had way too much fun working on it.

A rough overpaint + sketch. I also decided on a sunset kind of lightning since EVA 0.2 played "Tsubasa wo Kudasai" , a song that you usually play during Graduation. But I heared some stores also use this song right before closing the store, signalizing that the day might end today but there will always be a new tomorrow. A sunset has an equal meaning to me, thus the light setting.

Originally I planned to keep Rei faceless, but instead of having a feeling of "eeriness" , the image felt rather incomplete, so I added the face back into it at a later stage.

There was also a stage where I removed the "plant idea" but later added it back in, to make the school look a little bit more ambandonet.