This is another key shot, showing Menewa turning to find a Trion soldier coming straight at him. This shot takes place after the Trion invasion and its when all citizens of the ice planet Kreth are being taken prisoner including Menewa and the mountain people.

For this image I again used a lot of reference from James Gurney section on night time rendering to get the dark snowy atmosphere. This painting really opened my eyes to see colour

The ice planet I wanted show has an abundance of liquid nitrogen. For this painting I imagine theres a liquid nitrogen lake of river near by releasing all the fog seen in the image.

Also I painted in these spheres on the trees, Im thinking that the trees over time have developed these bubble like "blisters" on its surface indicating a large amount of nitrogen being accumulated in that particular area. I also took that idea further and placed these plants with these chimney looking things spewing nitrogen gas into the atmosphere adding to the heavy fog.

I want to add further details like some snow falling and even some rocks and things to break up the ground a little bit, but for now hope you enjoy!