Every so often I come back to the Ivory Tower, and The Neverending Story in general, as I was so influenced by the original film and the novel. The space you feel across the land to the tower in the original matte painting by Ul de Rico is just immense, so well done it was. So this is how I see the Ivory Tower this time around.

This is painted and some photobashed foreground elements which have been composited in, finished off in PS.