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The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

If I were to enter the world created in The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim, I could only wish to capture the amazing images Duncan Harris manages to create through beautifully constructed screen shots.

Dead End Thrills is a gallery full of amazingly crafted screen captures from video games. Harris manages to turn the world within the game into beautiful photography-like images that capture the games world through an artistic eye. On Harris’ website, he explains further how he does it:

Applying the principles of real world photography to the virtual worlds of games is just part of the solution. Hacking and tweaking games to remove player model, HUD and restrictions on the camera are others. The toughest, though, is rendering games from throughout the 3D era, from Deus Ex to Crysis 2, at truly uncompromising quality. There is a massive difference between running a game with top-of-the-line antialiasing and quality settings, and running it with those same settings at resolutions far in excess today’s norms, using offline resampling to achieve perfect results. Only recently, and after extensive research, have such methods become possible.

The results are enticing and give a better sense to the scale and effort put into the worlds created in each of the games he “photographs”.  To see his work, go to Dead End Thrills. You can also follow Ellis on twitter.