Windows 10's futuristic wallpaper was created with lasers, smoke machines, and crystal dust
We’ve got just over a month to go until Windows 10 starts hitting our PCs and Microsoft is sharing all kinds of information about the upcoming operating system. The latest tip is aYouTube video that reveals the default desktop wallpaper Windows 10 will have, and that exacting details that into making it.
This time around, Microsoft isn’t going for Windows 8.1's funky yellow shapes or theiconic ‘Bliss’ wallpaper of Windows XP that inspired numerous Photoshop adaptations—and probably the battle scene on the planet of Naboo. Instead, the company teamed up with designer and director Bradley G. Munkowitz for a darker, more impactful image.
The new design takes the basic Windows logo and shines light through it. Not entirely original for a photo featuring a window, but the resulting image is still cool to look at.
To put the desktop image together, Munkowitz and his team employed camera mapping techniques along with light, haze, lasers, and lens flares to create an image of power generating from beyond the window. Munkowitz says the basic idea was to treat the logo “as a portal that was allowing us to look into space.” In other words, he let a window be a window.
