My initial idea for this one was to represent a battle between some big, luxurious passenger-ship and few small pirate’s steam-sloops , but as I spent some time working on the still , little by little the scene focus changed, putting the pirates in the center of the action .

Based on Edward Bennun’s concept .

Modeled & rendered in 3ds max / mental ray, textures and additional corrections in Photoshop.

Some wires and close-ups here :
http://img148.imageshack.us/img148/7428/duelenvbreakdownxv8.jpg