I did this image for Ubisoft, AC Brand, as a book cover for an upcoming novel about the game Assassin's Creed Unity.
I did some texturing and the shaders for Elise, the posing of both characters, lighting, rendering and then comp and illustration in photoshop. For the 3D part I worked in 3dsMax and Zbrush, the later to emphasize cloth effects and movement. The rendering was done with Vray.
For the cathedral version of the background I used some assets created by Hugo Deschamps.
Original concept by Christopher Dormoy.
Original character design, modeling and shading by others...