Hello, please and welcome, my 1:1 recreation of the original HL2 Beta menu background in high resolution. I didn't use any AI Upscale or Photoshop. The main pain was the "glitch" texture on top of the citadel, I redrew it from scratch, after that the pain was the composition, I couldn't understand for a long time why the wall here is longer than on the official concept art, it turns out it's 1/3 of the original part of the wall re-inserted. I'm very happy that I was able to make this on my own from basic tools. And it was a nice project for myself. I'll post a couple of alt versions in the future.
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Splendid wallpaper
Incredible
no words
Impressive!