DEATH/MARK - The Cathedral of Communion

“The Cathedral of Communion; seat of God and source of infinite comfort and glory. The cathedral was built on the flesh of the sinful, to raise the faithful to the realm of the divine.”

“The truth is far darker than the Church would like the common folk to believe: The Church was built around the land where the Holiest, or more accurately the Seed, made landfall. From the leaking blood the Church received dark knowledge of the world, and from the Church they grew to spread their word with fire and steel.”
This is part of a larger Vis-dev project that I completed for my class' Summer vis-dev mod. I planned to do an exterior and an interior of the central location of DEATH/MARK, which was planned to be a gothic cathedral. One of the exterior zones I wanted to focus on was a landing where torture victims and those to be punished by the Church would be publicly tortured and executed (which was one of the thumbnails) but in the end I elected to zoom out and paint the entire cathedral to create a more imposing structure. The interior was mocked up using 3d and was painted over a screenshot from the mockup. A lot of the textures were photobashed in to save time painting, especially the bone piles in the exterior along with the marble textures and stained glass windows in the interior.