Work Environment & Scene

Blood of Zeus — Underworld & Realms

Painted environment and background design for the underworld: Hades' palace, Tartarus, the Lethe, the Isle of the Blessed and the abyss.

Environment and background design for the animated series Blood of Zeus. The brief is atmosphere before architecture: each realm has to read instantly as its own place, at series scale, in a limited palette that survives compositing.

The set covers Hades’ palace, bedroom and stables, the Tartarus bank, the Lethe river, Keramaikos cemetery, the Isle of the Blessed, the underworld caves and the abyss chamber — including long panoramic plates cut for camera moves.

Underworld panorama: a tiered island of green flame under a burning sky.
Underworld at its most volcanic, the citadel silhouetted against magma light.
Hades' palace rising from cloud on a floating rock, twin towers against dusk.
Hades' palace seen from below through storm cloud.
Interior of Hades' bedroom: colonnaded hall lit by hanging braziers.
Hades' throne hall with flanking statues and a glowing doorway at the far end.
Palace stables: a dark timber hall opening onto pale light.
Palace stables interior lit by molten light through the arches.
Tartarus riverbank under bare trees and a bruised sky.
Tartarus: a river of fire cutting through blackened forest.
The river Lethe winding through drowned woodland.
Keramaikos cemetery on the coastal cliffs above a pale sea.
The Isle of the Blessed seen from above: green terraces ringed by turquoise water.
Underworld cave mouth with a shaft of light falling on the rock floor.
The abyss chamber: a vertical column of red light in a black cave.
A volcanic mountainside of red rock under a smoke-dark sky.
Long panoramic plate of the underworld, built for a lateral camera move.

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