Dechambo's Project 77

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Concept artists sometimes create their own fictional worlds as an exercise in portfolio building. In the case of Martin Deschambault, a concept artist from Ubisoft Montreal his idea was to create a space opera under the name of 'Project 77' and illustrate what it would look like. This is pretty common practice for industry artists, because it gives them a theme and constraints while they work on environments, characters, props and more to fill the universe they envisioned. Check out 8 more pieces from this series after the break!