Eow 100 Epic!

[chaosrocks]

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Eow 100!!! EPIC


Brief
for this challenge. I am AD, for those of you who do not know, that means Art director

come up with an epic narrative,


your epic saga of choice is going to be pitched as an RPG, You create 5 different environments from this narrative. they should be cohesive (i other words they all need to be from the same artist style, same world and be visually designed) presentation of your five Enviros ad the design of the layout and titling counts! as does a consideration of the possible player demographic of your game.
I will provide a partial list, your Epic MUST BE APPROVED and I will be unlikely to approve epic which have been hammered into the consciousness of the culture.....ie LOrd of the rings. unless you can convince me that your vision of Middle earth is plausible yet entirely unlike New Zealand

LIST OF EPICS
chose form the list or propose your own idea. it must be approved, by me.

Chanson de Roland
Beowulf
Gilgamesh
Cuchulain
Jason and the voyage of the Argo
Earthsea
Pern
Gormenghast
the labours of Hercules
Dune
Foundation
Cthulu
Deryni
Disk World
The Illiad
The Odyssey
The Fairy of Dawn
The Nebulungenlied
Carthage and Hannibal
Pellucidar
Burrough's "Mars"
Alices Wonderland
OZ
the mormon pilgrimage to Utah
moses
valdemar
dark materials
Dante's Divine comedy
1000 and one nights



REQUIRED
5 Environmental scenes from one pre-approved epic saga
they must be designed to be seen together and layed out in a thoughtful fashion



DUE three weeks
December 14th]
GET TO WORK! Throught the kind attention of Jason and MB there are prizes and there will be judges as well as a pollB]

NO description required, except the title of you Epic Saga, and perhaps a link to a blurb for the less familiar ones






[B]:right: FOLLOW THE TOPIC.

:right: POST YOUR FINAL in the final burning thread THREAD.


[B]:right: SAVE YOUR FILES IN THE FOLLOWING FORMAT. EOW##_Nickname
example: "EOW#100_Chaosrocks.jpg" ;)

:right: PLACE THE IMAGE IN A FRAME WITH YOUR NAME/TOPIC layout design matters give it some thought

example from CHOW

http://i73.photobucket.com/albums/i222/ChowPics/frame.jpg
(you can add CA logo, etc).

Add an icon to you final post
150 pixels either direction
PLEASE OUTSIDE HOST THE ICON
k thx

Update
the list so far of accepted epics and the [people who selected them
I have no objection to more than one person working on the same thing

HUge thankss to Tatiana for compliling the list. adn Bart who was working on it, and Cookiedough for suggesting it

1. Don Quixote de la Mancha ---------- daveneale
2. Wizard of Oz (World of Oz) ---------- AndreRuben
3. Dune ---------- Kamikazebob
4. The Inferno/Dante’s Divine Comedy ---------- arttorney
5. Beowulf ---------- Saturns Gate
6. Dante’s Divine Comedy ---------- hunchbackmagee
7. Gilgamesh ---------- gmblfdz
8. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" ---------- timothee
9. Malazan Books of the Fallen ---------- Sorknes
10. Song of Ice and Fire ---------- nimbusnacho
11. Hitchhiker’s Guide ---------- Chibihomey
12. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft ---------- iwantjelly
13. Burrough's "Mars" ---------- rayk
14. the odyssey ---------- tonysaurus
15. "At the Mountains of Madness" ---------- Corrick
16. The Dark Tower Series ---------- Sundance
17. Glen Cook's Black Company books ---------- Ave101
18. Maupassant ---------- derriere
19. Dan Simmon's Hyperion/Endymion ---------- m@.
20. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan ---------- artiphats
21. Ragnarok (Norse mythology) ---------- Xenier
22. Nibelungenlied ---------- Relic
23. Paradise Lost ---------- aberrant85
24. Peter Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn' trilogy ---------- Mr--Jack
25. Alice in Wonderland ---------- petitemistress
26. Ringworld by Larry Niven ---------- Espenboi
27. David Gemmells epic novel Legend ---------- Gaius
28. the Ramayana ---------- vibhas_virwani
29. Alice in Wonderland ---------- Adele
30. The Neverending Story ---------- hungryan
31. Stanislaw Lem's books -- "The Star Diaries" ---------- Tonic
32. Ender's Game Series ---------- ChaoticKnight
33. Follett's Pillar's ---------- Vyse
34. Clive Barker's Abarat ---------- Orunitier
35. Anne McCaffrey’s Pern (Dragonriders of Pern) ---------- tatiana
36. chronicles of the breaking ---------- patr1ot
37. Dark Disciple or The Wheel of Time ---------- tobbA
38. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon ---------- katinki
39. Asimov's foundation trilogy ---------- TheChevver
40. The Neverending Story ---------- Hideyoshi
41. "Volsunga saga" ---------- robmorfin
42. Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One or Yann Martell's Life of Pi or “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” ----------¿Dubious?
43. The Fairy of Dawn ---------- laekae
44. Gabriel Garcia Marques '100 Years of Solitude' or 'Love in the time of Cholera' or Ovid's Metamorphoses ---------- Mishkin275
45. William Gibson's - Neuromancer ----------2kre8
46. Dune ---------- ajv/.
47. Atlas Shrugged ---------- nimbusnacho
48. Wigalois or Parzival ---------- legendarybarr
49. Eon by Greg Bear ---------- kilz
50. Gormenghast or Count of Monte Cristo ---------- zephyri
51. "Eden" by Lem ---------- aer
52. 1984 by George Orwell ---------- brewin
53. romance of three kingdom or The Fountainhead or franz kafka's k ---------- zenichi
54. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ---------- suman_d123
55. The Moses Epic (The Holy Bible) ---------- pokepetter
56. Atlas Shrugged ---------- Phaethon
57. Greg Bear’s The Forge of God ---------- Earendil
58. His Dark Materials ---------- FlameRaven
59. Alice in Wonderland ---------- Jim_Hatama
60. Earthsea ---------- Janto
61. Beowulf ---------- Kmadden2004
62. The count of monte cristo - alexander dumas ---------- hutachip
63. Gormanghast ---------- Felicity
64. The Wheel of Time ---------- zelda_geek
65. The Gospel (New Testament Bible) ---------- revenebo
66. The Wizard of Oz series ---------- Windsrock
67. Raising Dragons from the Dragons in our Midst ---------- ijacobs9
68. Terry Brooks Shannara series ---------- space-sprayer
69. Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny ---------- Chachia
70. The Waste land by T.S. Eliot ---------- Trashy
71. George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) or The Wheel of Time ---------- corspufo
72. brave new world or the time machine ---------- warbait
73. Tony Gonzales “eve:the emperean age” or Dante’s Divine Comedy ---------- Cuervo
74. Pratchett’s Discworld series ---------- Angel Intheuk
75. The Magician’s Nephew (Narnia Chronicles) ---------- Jangles
76. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series ---------- Pixeltuner
77. George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice ---------- ZsMann
78. Grapes of Wrath ---------- tmbritton
79. 'Ramayana', 'Mahabharath' and 'Kamasutra'..? ---------- animosapien
80. Harry Potter ---------- Demo
81. Culture universe created by Iain M Banks ---------- plasmax
82. The Hobbit ---------- Ramza

[Simon Boxer]

Ooooo, interesting.

Do I need to clarify what 5 enviros I'll do within a topic or just choosing the 'epic' and getting that approved is enough?

[Pawkfox]

Well that was an.. not horrible but difficult read.

So let's see. We draw 5 environments based on one of said topics.
(e.g Alice in wonderland)

Must the style be alike that of said topic?
If you chose Alice, must the artwork be Disney inspired or what?

I'm not entirely following as you can see.


they must be designed to be seen together and layed out in a thoughtful fashion

Like a super wide panorama? explain.

[chaosrocks]

oh goddess please
you choose which Enviros you do

Pawk fox
Alice is NOT Disney. NONONONONONOOOOOOOOO!
I specified literature, as in words. so as not to get interpretations of other peoples visions

the style must be an interpretation of the topic and be cohesive
the Five Environments need no be attached into a singlepanorama
but they need to be layed out to be seen together. as in Visually designed as a whole

[Pawkfox]

Okay then.. I think I understand.

How's stargate for a topic? Approved? :p

[daveneale]

I'd love to take part if I can find the time-if I do I presume there would be no objections to Don Quixote de la Mancha?

[AndreRuben]

i think i dind't understand it very well..

but I want to pic the world of OZ! I remember it was one of my favourite fairy tales in my early years.. it would be nice to dive into that world again

So, I need to draw 5 diferent enviros from OZ?

The first thing that comes to my mind is the yellow brick road. I supose that would be one of the 5 enviros that i must draw right?

and what does it means it has to be from the same artist style? do i have to paint them all similair to each other in terms of way-to-ilustrate? Or do I have to search for artists wich drew the first concepts from the book and follow their style?

[Kamikazebob]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE.

and my work begins.


btw Chaos... with Dune do I need to go by the first book or can I go be the series...?

[arttorney]

This is just a joke, Chaos.

Rather than an RPG I thought about doing Dante's Inferno and pitching it to Hallmark as a new series of "Go to Hell" cards. I think it's a winner.

I actually would love to do the Inferno, but I don't think I have time to do it proper justice before the deadline. I'll see.

[artiphats]

I need to do research on a couple of those topics, because they sound interesting but I need to know more.

The rules seem pretty clear, count me in on this EPIC eow!!! Should be great fun and a great challenge.

-Ray

[Saturns Gate]

Hmm sounds like a challenge! Count me in! If I can get the time that is :(

Beowulf sounds intriguing, to do something entirely different with anyway.

[vibhas_virwani]

i feel like such a big noob , couldnt get what this means :S :S please explain sm1
consideration of the possible player demographic of your game.

[Earendil]

DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNE.

and my work begins.


btw Chaos... with Dune do I need to go by the first book or can I go be the series...?

Have you memorized the first book? :) Anything that'll help you man.

Dark Materials, Dune, or Oz...Maybe something entirely different.

Great idea chaos!


i feel like such a big noob , couldnt get what this means :S :S please explain sm1

I think another way of phrasing this is, What kind of audience are you trying to tell this story to?
From Wiki Entry:
"The term demographics as a noun is often used erroneously in place of demography, the study of human population, its structure and change. Although there is no absolute delineation, demography focuses on population structure, processes and dynamics, whereas demographics is most often used in the fields of media studies, advertising, marketing, and polling, and should not be used interchangeably with the term "demography" or (more broadly) "population studies"."

[chaosrocks]

ok Stargate is a NO. LITERATURE ! Words for you to translate into visions. Stargate is already visual.

on the oz question, dive into the books and come up with your own images. I don't want rehashings. and you get to pic what 5 environments you want to use.

daveneale don quixiote is a definate YES why didn't I think of that?

By style I mean that all the enviros might want to be in the same medium and style. Your choice, your style.

giggle at the "go to hell " cards.. you will notice it says the Divine comedy, which gives you the Paradiso and the purgatoririo to work with too.

as for working with Dune.. I stick to the first book , there's plenty scope there and lest you want to e overloaded... beware the movie images. you don't have to stick to the frist book though . I would

which reminds me
Milton's Paradise lost.

[hunchback]

i definately want to do this.

Can I do Dantes Divine Comedy?
It is very descriptive and looks like theres a lot to work from.

And can it be anything in the poem like five of the nine levels, like lust and gluttony and purgator?

[Pawkfox]

Aw man. Stargate is a book dammit :(
But okay. Crap, that means I'd actually have to read one of those books within a few days to get time for the enviros. I don't think I can pull it off. Took me 3months to get through that weird book harry potter :P

[chaosrocks]

I'll give you Harry Potter, if you promise to try to make it different from the movies.

hunchback magee... sure

[gmblfdz]

I'm in. I've actually just started reading a book on Mesoptamian myths which includes Gilgamesh. I guess I'll be going for that one. :)

[timothee]

I'd like to give this one a shot, how about doing Bram Stoker's "Dracula"?

[chaosrocks]

dracula is a yes, although it is a little less than epic :P again avoid the movie images

[Sorknes]

I've had a "half-go" on the Malazan Books of the Fallen then? Author: Steven Erikson - a bloody wonder of a series. The world is made by him and Ian Cameron Esslemont who has also written a couple of books in the same world.

If anybody else have read it, I'd *love* to see some more takes on those epic places.


As second option I'd hold any of China Mièville's books. You know you'd love to do some steampunk underneath a mastodont ribcage or floating ocean cities...

[chaosrocks]

Malazan is a go

[nimbusnacho]

Hell, I'm gonna give this a shot. Not usually an enviro person, but no better time to start than the present.

I think I'll tackle Song of Ice and Fire, I don't see that this would be a problem, but if you say it's not okay I'll find something else.

Maybe it's too close to LotR type stuff?

[Chibihomey]

How About the Hitchhicker's Guide series?

[TASmith]

Okay, I'd like to do this, although I can't promise getting much past the sketch stages. My environments would be of a world I'm creating for a comic book - the lands of the Telav and beyond. The idea is to have a largely unexplored world with lots of tropical locales in a Renaissance/Baroque setting, filled with magic and crazy creatures. It's not based on any literature except what I've written myself. The focus would be marvelous nature, and manipulation of natural forces through magic, i.e. huge storms, funnel clouds, and such.

[gmblfdz]

I know this is meant to be environments but can characters or creatures be implemented to provide the pictures with extra depth? eg, the cyclops in The Odyssey, or will his cave merely suffice?

Or to put it another way, are we simply creating the environments in which these stories take place or the actual snapshot of events that take place within the epic tale?

[iwantjelly]

This is a veeeery exciting challenge, and i'm absolutely definitely in.

I'd like to choose the most epic story of Randolph Carter, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft.

Is it approved ?

[chaosrocks]

thats a yes on Song of Ice and Fire
and a yes ion the hitchikers guide
TASmith Im afraid thats a no on your own writing, as yet mostly unwritten, sorry has to be already written, and in fact something that ive at least heard of. don't let me stop you from doing them though. sounds really interesting. love to see it. just not for this.
yes on Lovecraft..cthulu is on the list... the others are fine too

you can put in figures. if they are an integral part of the Environment, butthe image should no be about the cyclops, more about the cave and island he lives on. K/

adding to list
King Solomons mines
I claudius (roman imperium)
various works of robert Loius Stevenson, black Arrow, Kidnapped, Treasure island

[paberu]

Oh!!! I think I'm in (although I might get super busy at work...). Could we get a bigger deadline? 3 Weeks is kinda short to get familiar with a topic and produce 5 mood pieces...

If we choose Burrough's "Mars" as the topic, which of the books would be recommended? I've found some of his firsts book in public domain as audio books.

Cheers! Can't wait to see what everyone else comes up with :D

[iwantjelly]

Great ! I'm on Lovecraft's "dream-quest of unknown Kadath" then.

For those who would like to do Cthulu or other parts of the "ancient demonic" part of Lovecraft's work, you won't do the same subject as me because Randolph Carter's story is very different from Cthulu, Azathoth and Nyarlathothep oriented novels : it's more a dreamy, fantastic mood than the gritty horror we all know Lovecraft for. That's why this book is my favorite, and why i'm chosing it.

This EOW will be grand. Thanks for such a good, open subject Chaosrocks !

[Chibihomey]

Hitchhiker's Guide my not me the best choice though, =(. It's mostly about the creatures. hummm...

[chaosrocks]

3 weeks is ages
I rather assumed there would be somethign on this list with which your are already familiar. And hopefully this will give people a chance to illustrate that literature with which they are already in love.

for the mars books, they are a quick read, Princess of mars is by far the most important.

[chaosrocks]

chibihomey... dent's house, the ship interior exterior, the restaurant at the end of the universe, the parking deck of miliways. the vogon ship. interior. the planet creation studios. there's six... but whatever.

[tonysaurus]

cool
gonna pick the odyssey.

should the five environments tell the story of the epic from start to finish?
or are they just any five scenes?

[Corrick]

"John Carter" or "At the Mountains of Madness". Carter or Madness, Carter or Madness.......... damn...

Basically one would be red paintings, the other white.

Can we do two? :)

Great topic by the way. Nice to see some "practical application" filter in here...

[Sundance]

Oh another one I can't resist signing up for...

Damnit...

Roxie, I'd like to do Stephen King's "The Talisman" and "Black House", please advise if it is approved.

Thanks!

EDIT: If not, I'd go for the Gunslinger series...also by King

EDIT PART DUEX: Just thinking of other suggestions from my youth...

The Shannara World from several different series by Terry Brooks
The Xanth novels by Piers Anthony
Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander (The Black Cauldron, et al)

EDIT X3: after further discussion: The Dark Tower Series will be my entry.

[paberu]

Fine Chaos, just saying you might be turning off some of the working people from participating as 3 weeks is a pretty tight schedule if you are trying to meet deadlines at work.

I think it's more fun to pick something you are not familiar with as a topic, getting out of comfort zone is very healthy ;).

[Ave101]

Glen Cook's Black Company books alright for a go at it?

[xinranliu]

Can I take Maupassant? 19th century French fantasy writer.

[Simon Boxer]

3 weeks is ages

Negatory. Obviously you read a lot, but the last novel I read was in highschool. In short, I don't read very fast. Add to that full-time work and 3 weeks becomes more like 6 days. It would probably take me 3 days to read a novel in the first place. That leaves 3 days for 5 pieces + design.

Perhaps we can we opt to do a movie as a last resort? Movies are narratives...


Also, who's judging this? A well-read soul, I assume.

[m@.]

Dan Simmon's Hyperion/Endymion ? good?

[paberu]

cognition.sb: Just get an audio book like me. You can re listen to it while you work on the concepts :)

[Simon Boxer]

Hehe, cunning. What kind of runtime do those babies have?

[Corrick]

Things are never simple around here.

Typical audio books (and don't hassle me about what typical means) will run anywhere from 6 to 14 hours, depending on the book and if it's abridged or unabridged.

Since it's a lot harder to fast forward to an exact time than it is to turn a page, I'd suggest either Cliff's Notes or Wikipedia for the basic story plot, and check the actual book out from the library if you want to get into the details. Bear in mind that you will straight-up ruin any chance of enjoying the story if you haven't read it already and Wiki it, but since it sounds like there aren't many readers in here, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

I'm going with "At the Mountains of Madness". Epic Antarctica.

[arttorney]

If something keeps me out it would be work pressures too. It's feast or famine for me, but when the feast is there I gots to gobble it up right away, lest it end up on somebody else's table.

What about the Popol Vuh?

[Chibihomey]

Fine Chaos, just saying you might be turning off some of the working people from participating as 3 weeks is a pretty tight schedule if you are trying to meet deadlines at work.

I think it's more fun to pick something you are not familiar with as a topic, getting out of comfort zone is very healthy ;).

Just like a real job man, you get a deadline you gotta go by.

[artiphats]

but since it sounds like there aren't many readers in here...

I'm a reader, I just finished a couple of those Dr. Seuss books. So full of suspense!

[Chibihomey]

I read, just not to many series. I like one shot books like 1984 and I read comics. Haha.

[artiphats]

hey Chaos the last books I read were from The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan. I think I got to book 3 or 4. Fantasy based, much like Lord of the Rings, it's been a while since I read, but even within the first few books there are some great scenes that I can remember, which would make for great paintings.

Let me know if I can do it, my plate is already full for the next few months but I really want to get some good pieces in for this one.

Thanks in advance,

-Ray

[Xenier]

Hey, i know you dont want LOTR New Zealand all over again, but what about the other books, especially the Silmarillion? there's tons of locations there to do, also howabout mythology? such as Ragnarok or some of the other Norse Myths?

[chaosrocks]

yes on the black company
yes on maupassant
no movies. cliff notes at the very worst resort. i didn't think you'd actuall hav eto tread the book first. the book on tape idea is a good one.

three weeks becasue around here, that about the amount of attention span people have.

yes on Hyperion

yes on mountains of madness

wow never heard of that one Arttourney. but yes it sounds cool

ok you can have Wheel of time. the books kinda sucked and were pretty crappily written.. but the had a great publicity machine and were in essence epic

in case you haven't noticed... yes I read persistantly and omniverously.

Norse Mythology ok I guess although I would prefer the hero saga Ie die nebulungen lied
Aren't they up there? the whole of the mytholgy is epic, but not particularly narrative

I would accept the Hobbit, or the Sillmarillion. or even LOTR itself but youd have to talk me into it

[artiphats]

I heard the Wheel of Time books got boring at about 5 or 6, and I would definitely say the first one started out too much like LOTR's, but from what I read it wasn't bad. Better than a lot of junk out there. In any case, I think it will make for some good paintings, and really that's all that matters so a big THANKS for the approval.

[chaosrocks]

AndreRuben
oz is great and powerful. please use the books notthe movie. you do know there are 14 books of oz? (yes and several more of the sea fairies)

[Relic]

I wanna do the "Nibelungenlied",but I have to reread it,1 book and 5 pieces in3 weeks sounds scarey,anyway I love the epic idea,I'll give a try if I had enough time.Good luck ,guys:)

[aberrant85]

Paradise Lost, please.

[Mr--Jack]

No idea if I'll actually have time for this, but that's the point isn't it, making some? Anways...
Stephen Donaldson's Chronicles of Thomas Covenant?
(not sure which one I'd choose, but there's plenty to choose from there...)

[petitemistress]

DUDE, chaos. what are the odds? I've been studying the Alice in Wonderland book as re-interpreting it visually is my Master's degree subject!! and here come this EOW!

I'm in, Alice in Wonderland please please please? :D

[Meon]

Hi Chaos,

what about Ringworld by Larry Niven?

[tsujni]

Chaos, can I do a take on Ravenloft? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenloft) To be more precise, Barovia? (http://www.gryphonhill.com/barovia/maps.html)

[Max Challie]

I'll give you Harry Potter, if you promise to try to make it different from the movies.

So you can do Stargate, following the book and making it different from the visual series. Right?

[Gaius]

Very Exciting.

I think I will go with David Gemmells epic novel Legend.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend_(novel)

If thats ok?


ps:Thanks Chaos, for the absolutly brillant format for EOW 100.

[vibhas_virwani]

can i go ahead with the Mahabharata by Vyasa or the Ramayana,( Valmiki ) please ?? both epics :D ??

[Adele]

Alice in Wonderland for me thanks!

i start a new job for a studio on monday....so if i can do this in my spare time that would be good.

[Hideyoshi]

5 pieces in 3 weeks?
Honestly, that is actually quite tight.

But, by all means, I will try to chunk something out.
Haven't decided on a theme yet...

Oh yeah, this round rocks of course!

m@: hope you hop in! :)

[hungryan]

Never ever tried EOW, but: is Neverending Story an OK theme for this?
The whole thing sounds compelling, just a bit hard and with a tight deadline

[Tonic]

R.A. Salvatore's books with dark elf Drizzt Do'Urden :P I think these books are great for imagination, you know - Underdark, monsters that live there, town of dark elfes and et cetera. Can I? :D

[chaosrocks]

no
I will not accept stargate. it's lame.... the book was reverse engeneered.
read something please

harry Potter was a book before it was a movie... the parellel does not apply

[chaosrocks]

Relic-- could listent o the operas while working

Aberrant - Paradise lost is fine

Mr Jack Yes on Thoma s covenant--. hated it but it is epic

Petite Mistress ... yay!

ESpenboi. ringworld is fine almost put it on th elist but didn't think any one would have heard of it

tsujni - Im afraid thts a no on raven loft... it's not literature; its a d and d campaign

gaius- yes on Legend

Vibhas- yes thats fine Ive only read the ramayana though

Hideyoshi. yay ! yes I know its tight. but im just avoid idnthe lingering fading attentionspan. keeping it active and vital :P

hungryan - I accept Neverending story but it better not look even faintly like the movie, and you better have read the book

Tonic - yes on salvatore

[Vatsel]

Can i do disk world (one of your topics)?
and can it be any world thats disk shaped, or is it a known topic which I dont know about?*

*edit: I see now... it has to be literature based...
I think ill take on Little red riding hood (or other fairy tales?), if not, how about Tom Sawyer?

[arttorney]

A variant on the science fiction ringworlds and disk worlds is the series John Varley set on hollow donut world that was itself a living creature on a vast scale called Gaiea. The characters went there in the first book in a ship called the Ringmaster. That should be enough for you to google it. An interesting read with a lot of intense scenery. The second book was called Wizard, I remember, and also quite good.

[chaosrocks]

brewin- the disk world in question is Terry Pratchett, which if you haven't read , you are in for a treat.
-I have already approved Larry Niven's ring world, could do Varley too. so it does need to be a specific epic novel or series, or histrorical traditioal saga that you are working from, not just random ideas that you are making up the world for.

Im not accepting Fairy Tales, Its a fine line but they really aren't sufficiently epic. except the fairy of Dawn, which is a saga. and has enough scope for different scenes.

[hungryan]

Chaosrocks-Neverending Story: of course I've meant the book, the movie was bullcrap! Neverending stooouhreeeeee nanana nanana nanana

[J.Willis]

Interesting topic, Chaos, and I apologize for adding more "literature" to the list. I'll not particpate, but it did get me thinking about Patrick O'Bryan's Aubrey/Martin Series (Master and Commander), C.S Forester's Horatio Hornblower, and airplane literature David Weber's Honor Harrington Series (aka Horatio Hornblower in space).

[ChaoticKnight]

Haha I'm gonna reach back in the personal vaults here and request the Ender's Game Series. I may not finish before the deadline, but it'll give me more practice in scifi environments thats for sure.

[Vyse]

Whoa, great idea!
But i agree about the tight deadline... especially because i´ve gotta finish other pieces i haven´t even started yet before i can get hands on this round.... but i´d love to!!


So, if even already visualized literature like HP and Never Ending Story is accepted, then i guess it´s okay if i´d pick Ken Follett´s "Pillars of Earth" / "World Without End" or Noah Gordon´s "The Medicus"?
And what about biblical storys like about Troy or other unvisualized ones? Hercules is okay too, sooo.....

yay or nay?

[Orunitier]

okay...I'm gonna try this...omg.

I'd like to request Clive Barker's Abarat.

[tatiana]

I'd like to have a bit of fun with this if I can join in, so I'll request my old junior high favorite (and it's also on your list): the Pern series by Anne McCaffrey.

It's been about 20 odd years (ack!) since I've read most of the books, but I still have some fond memories of it all; and I'm a fast reader so no problem re-reading for descriptions and so on. Guess that means a quick visit to the used bookstore...heh.

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[chaosrocks]

willis - those would be fine

Chaotic Knight, ender's games a go

Vyse- Follett's Pillar's are fine, as are biblical scenes adn Troy.(the illiad is on the list actually, as is Moses, but one could also do other Biblical sagas. David comes to mind. ). Hercules too ... im leaning more towards the Hero sagas rather than the god mythologies as you've probably already foigured out

Oruntier - Abarat is good, be wary of the existing illustrations and style

Tatiana -- of course... :P you could just raid my Book shelf.. read my copies to death and then had to go back and buy hard covers

[TheChevver]

Awesome title, I hope I have enough time to enter. Just to clarify in the brief suggestions when you say 'Foundation' you mean as in the Isaac Asimov Foundation series yeah?

[patr1ot]

Hello i would like to do my piece based on a series of books by one of the leading Russian fantasy authors (Nick Perumov)
He recently moved to the states so now his site is also in English (although terribly translated) so if you would like to find out what my piece is going to be based on go here http://www.perumov.com/eng/books.shtml and then scroll down to the chronicles of the breaking where you will find a short summary of every set of books (overall there are 14 books in this series). These books have been a great inspiration to me and one of the reasons I started to draw =)

[tobbA]

I'd like to try this one. Is it ok if i do Dragonlance? :D

[katinki]

OMG i hope that i'll manage to finish this in time, but i so want to do Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon (or the whole Avalon cycle?)! Epic enough?

[chaosrocks]

the chevver Yes asimov' foundation trilogy

Patr1ot -- ok on perumov

tobbA--dragon lance is a genre like cheap romances. not a single epic
so thats a no. Yes I know im a snob... but there it is

ok on mists of avalon, though I would totally rather you took on Mary stewarts Crystal cave series, or even the original Morte de Artur

[Hideyoshi]

damn, everyone is grabbing their awesome topics and I don't have a clue T_T
I might just go with the bible...

seriously

[chaosrocks]

Sweet!
At least some people should be familiar with it
and goodness knows its epic

btw I might be persueded to give you an extra week

[invinciblewombat]

throwing down for Mr. Herbert's Dune, wips

[Vyse]

Okay okay, i think i got one;
If i get the time (and if the handsome chaos will be so nice to add a week), i pretty confident about choosing the biblical apocalypse for me - though i still have to get more familiar with it. But this is surely epic, for god´s sake. The four horseman..... yay!

...and i was first to mention smth biblical, yoshi.... so make sure not to copy my sweet apocalypse, is that clear?!
good.


Poor chaos, you seem real busy, having to answer to all of us fools.... =)
(weekmoreweekmoreweekmoreweekmore...)

[tobbA]

Meh. I was thinking of doing the Dark Disciple... that's sort of a single epic :o

But if that's impossible i'll probably go with the Wheel of Time, if that's ok?

[tonysaurus]

wip for odyssey
don't know if i'll continue with this one.. this was just the first scene that popped into my head :S

[robmorfin]

Chaos, how about the Popol Vuh, considered the Mayan Bible for its epic narrative of the Sovereign Plumed Serpent and other gods creating the world.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popol_Vuh

Too bad The Odissey & Epic of Gilgamesh were taken already, I would have liked making those.

[Adele]

chaosrocks sorry, please excuse my ignorance...what do you mean by 'titling does count'? I know this may seem like a very straight forward statement but im wondering if its a gaming design term...:drinkup:

[tatiana]

chaosrocks...what do you mean by 'titling does count'? I know this may seem like a very straight forward statement but im wondering if its a gaming design term...

Maybe since as per the instructions for this particular Epic EOW 100, we aren't required to post a text description for what we create, the title we make up (text title? design? logo?) of the RPG we're creating the 5 environments for is very important?

[arttorney]

Robmorphin- Chaos already OKd the Popol Vuh in response to a question by me. Go for it. I have so many ideas I will probably do something else anyway if I do this.

[¿Dubious?]

Hey I gotta speak up about you trashing the Wheel of Time but letting RA Salvatore through without remand haha.
Also just to try to help someone else out, would a specific epic from the dragonlance setting be ok? Just saying seeing as you let the Drizzt Saga through which is just a series from the Forgotten Realms setting.
All that said I dont want to do any of those things. I was thinking either Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One or Yann Martell's Life of Pi. Life of Pi would be tough to come up with locations as most of it takes place on a lifeboat but I think enough are certainly there.
I might take on Hitchhiker's guide if everyone else abandoned it as well.

[robmorfin]

Robmorphin- Chaos already OKd the Popol Vuh in response to a question by me. Go for it. I have so many ideas I will probably do something else anyway if I do this.

Arttorney, oops, missed that one, go for it, I will go instead for "The Nibelungenlied", translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High German.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibelungenlied

If that's ok with you Chaos.

[¿Dubious?]

dude robmorfin you should really read the thread before you post in it. Nibelungenlied has been okayed as well.

[robmorfin]

I wanna do the "Nibelungenlied",but I have to reread it,1 book and 5 pieces in3 weeks sounds scarey,anyway I love the epic idea,I'll give a try if I had enough time.Good luck ,guys:)


I saw that Dubious, thanks for being so kind and pointing that out, I was looking for another one, so I am going to do the "Volsunga saga"; The Völsunga saga is a legendary saga, a late 13th century Icelandic prose rendition of the origin and decline of the Volsung clan. It is largely based on epic poetry.

[Chibihomey]

I guess my Milliway's is comming along.

[Ilaekae]

Roxie, The Fairy of Dawn is Lang's piece from the violet fairy stories? Just checking...

If so, is it permissible to make the dragons (for example) part of the environment? If I attempt this, I'll be taking an extremely abstract approach...which is why I'm asking.

[Vulgar`]

Some suggestions for those who don't have any theme yet:

I, Robot
Moby Dick
Macbeth
Treasure Island
Atlas Shrugged
The Art of War (illustrations based on Sun Tzu's book, scenes of war)
The Last Voyage of Columbus
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Waste Land
Arabian Knights
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Frankenstein

[Mishkin275]

Could I do Gabriel Garcia Marques '100 Years of Solitude' or 'Love in the time of Cholera'? If not I'd like to do some stuff from Ovid's Metamorphoses.. hehe, there's a lot to choose from.

[2kre8]

What about William Gibson's - Neuromancer ---Futuristic cafe's, floating water restaurants, asian influences, or maybe his other book Idoru? what do you think?

[ajv/.]

Is it alright if I do dune?

[chaosrocks]

ok

Vyse you are welcome to the book of revelations If you think tyou can pull 5 interesting environments out of it

I'm sur eyou all are rrememberingthat you are NOT illustrating these stories, but are making environments from them

TobbA-- wheel of time is approved.. (ugh)

Rob yeha you saw the note on the popol vuh.. I must look that up


Adele- I mean that the layout of your final presentation should be considered. including format of any titles or text you use. but basically this is a visual, not textual challenge

dubious, Im not crazy about Salvatore either, but thats just personal preference.. they are better written. and why the hell are you wasting my time arguing about stuff you don't wanna do anyway?


Robmorphin Volsunga saga is fine

Ilaekae. yes thats the one, I have a first edition. and yes dear Dragons can definately be integral environmental elements

Vulgar good suggestions, some of which are already on the list. not sure Macbeth is really that epic though, nor is sleepy hollow.

Mishkin275 _ great idea. I adore 100 years of solitude. you can have Ovid if you like but I think its less visually vivid (personal preference again)


2kre8- Neuromancer is fine

AJV/. sure it's on the list... but you won't be the only one

[nimbusnacho]

Some suggestions for those who don't have any theme yet:

I, Robot
Moby Dick
Macbeth
Treasure Island
Atlas Shrugged
The Art of War (illustrations based on Sun Tzu's book, scenes of war)
The Last Voyage of Columbus
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
The Waste Land
Arabian Knights
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
Frankenstein


I was thinking about Altlas Shrugged, that would be sweet, a challenge for sure and very different from other things going on here, huge railroad stations, that old factory with vines grown over it. Wyatt's Torch would be awesome to draw.


But I'm currently halfway through the book so I don't think I could do it justice without knowing it fully.

[legendarybarr]

I'm thinking of some awesome ideas from medieval epics, I want to know if these are fine because all are awesome, I took a class and had to read them. I couldn't put them down. I wanted to know if any of these are fine to do, anyway here they are:

Hartmann von Aue: Erec

Hartmann von Aue: Iwein, the Knight with the Lion

Wirnt von Grafenberg: Wigalois, the Knight of Fortune’s Wheel

Wolfram von Eschenbach: Parzival

I might do Wigalois or Parzival

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parzival

[¿Dubious?]

robmorfin: my bad. That sounds really cool.
chaosrocks: not trying to offend man, it was just a comment.

[chaosrocks]

legendary barr... sweet a person who actually does research. (was a medieval history majot m'self, for a while. parzival, or percival as we might put it in english.

I am sad that no one has picke dup on the Orlando Furioso. (chanson de roland)

Dubious, none taken

[kilz]

Eon...by greg bear

I read the book when they did the cgtalk challenge way back and it immediately became one of my all time favorite novels. Although I never went through with creating any visuals...I figure better late than never.


:teeth:

[Adele]

chaosrocks thanks for the reply....so this challenge is not the usual concept, design and paint an environment? I did this image today...is it not on the right track? as I was just going to go and paint it? Am i meant to be laying it out in a certain way? This is the only one that was set at this angle because of the location...the others will be straight-layed out environments...flower bed environment, rabbits house, tea party etc etc etc. I have seen some environment designs for the LOST RPG and using them as a guide...http://www.nuro-art.com/

btw...there are so many posts on here about book choices...I wouldnt even dare to suggest Twilight as I think I may get a boot in my face as it not really epic...but THAT would be an awesome game :D

[zephyri]

Oh gods.. this is such a great idea for EOW100... My heart leapt at the idea of tackling the weird and wonderful world of Gormenghast, I absolutely adored the first two novels, Tidus Groan went off on too weird a tangent for me though.

Though on thinking, I finished Count of Monte Cristo a couple of weeks ago, and would love to tackle some of the grandeur the environments in that book would have. Would that count as epic, Chaos?

And an extra week would be just the incentive I'd need to tear myself away from the CGTalk Steampunk challenge for a little while and try this out instead.

[aer]

Greetings from Poland. Is "Eden" by Lem okay? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_(novel). Not-so-much epicness, but many interesting enviros are there.

[Vatsel]

chaos ive got it!
1984 by George Orwell
(i simply have to do it! hope its not taken already...)

[chaosrocks]

kilz eon is fine
adele- you're o a good track, Alice is gonna be a hard one to keep away from existing images.
zephyri I meant to put Gormenghast on the list, count of monte christo would be fine as well

aer- I love Lem, and Eden is fairly epicish... don't thin the translator was quite as good for it as it was for "memoirs from a Bathtub"

i am contemplating an extra week

[Vyse]

Ah, now i have other great ideas... maybe the novels of Jules Verne, like journey to the center of eart, 20.000miles under the sea...... guess i´ll change my topic by tomorrow again anyway, so i shut my trap for now =)

[chaosrocks]

jules verne is fine..
Go Steampunk~!

[chaosrocks]

Don't ever say I don't do anythign nice for all you wonderfull people

NEW DEADLINE

December 9th

but this means no extentions, no matter how much you plead!

[tatiana]

I'm kinda surprised that no one has picked Naomi Novik's Temeraire series yet, with its "what if" take on the epic Napoleonic Wars by dragon interference. I mean, Peter Jackson has even optioned all of her books now for movie development (he just bought the options for her last two books per the publishing newsletter I got earlier this week). Doesn't mean that they will actually become movies, but you never know. :)

http://www.temeraire.org/

[arttorney]

I own a copy of Song of Roland and gave it serious thought, but I find the prospect of drawing a thousand mounted armored guys with spears a rather daunting challenge. Most of the environments are either that, or a thousand dead armored guys lying around with gore. There is the court of the moorish king and the court of Charlemagne but then after that we're back to all those dudes and horses. It's intimidating. I might try it now, just out of cussedness, but damn!!!

[zenichi]

is romance of three kingdom ok?
the scene in koei's take (on all gaming platforms, PS3, 360 etc.) really sucks for me, and the new red cliff movie doesnt do it for me either... but then it might be way over my league...

rationally, i should tackle one with more architectural theme... maybe the fountainhead... is that epic enough??!!!

franz kafka's k?

[ALH]

Bloody hell i've been camping out in my user CP waiting for an old thread to be bumped with news of EOW100, cant believe im 2 days late!

This sounds like an awesome round, but im really going to have to shift some priorities about to join in, and im not sure if i can without being a week down. We'll see.

Its been ages since i read something which would be applicable to this project too, damn. The closest thing ive got in recent memory is 'The Raw Shark Texts' - which would be a lot of fun, given its conceptual nature, but i dunno if it would count, its not really 'epic'. Gonna have to flick through my books and see what would stick before i commit x_x!

[suman_d123]

chaosrocks, may I do enviros based on John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress? It's got some interesting environments.

[Vatsel]

chaosrocks is 1984 by George Orwell ok?

[Hideyoshi]

hm...now I am still pondering...
but thanks for confirming the Bible as a possible theme, chaos. It's vast with ideas but environments aren't that specifically described. Also, it might get a little one-sided.

I also thought about

- Neverending Story
- Journey to the West (chinese tale)

Vulgar, you have some appealing topics there as well!

thanks for the deadline extension!!

[arttorney]

Bible= just off the top of my head 1. lion's den (Daniel), 2. Tower of Babel 3. Jericho 4. Sodom & Gomorrah 5. Garden of Eden 6. those pillars Samson knocked over 7. the flood 8. Mt. Calvary 9. Red Sea (parted) 10. the mighty buildings all fallen down (Mark 13)

I think the Bible is lush with environments.

[Vulgar`]

Hidey I was trying to brainstorm any samurai era legends but I couldn't think of any. A Chinese tale sounds cool, you'd do good with it. By the way, maybe you could futurize the scenes of the bible if chaos allows it.

[kenjitsu]

Sounds interesting, but I have never read a book. So... I'll, I dunno what I'm gonna do... I'll jus try to take a existing movie and do alternative environments for it, harder that way, but I won't read a whole book, that's for sure.

[ALH]

Sounds interesting, but I have never read a book. So... I'll, I dunno what I'm gonna do... I'll jus try to take a existing movie and do alternative environments for it, harder that way, but I won't read a whole book, that's for sure.

why not do a childrens book

[pokepetter]

I don't read books either, but I do know the Moses epic. I guess most people know it. That's what I'm going for at least.

This EOW is epic btw.

[Tonic]

chaos, I would like to change Salvatore to Stanislaw Lem's books - probably it will be "The Star Diares", a speculative fiction book with light surrealistic athmosphere. I think it will be much more interesting than ordinary fantasy with elves and monsters. And challenging, too!

[paberu]

Thanks for deadline extension Chaos! I'm nearly done with listening to a princess of mars :).

Are we required to post WIPs?

[Adele]

chaosrocks you are so nice.

In other news...thanks for the feedback and I am trying to go in a different direction with Alice

I'll stay true to the general descriptions in the book...im not going to go all Gothic on it...its been done. I haven't played the game, but Ive seen some of the images so ill stay away from that 'dark' look. I'll definitely not to go too Disney bright colours either...although Im a HUGE fan of Mary Blair's colouring designs which are one of my biggest inspirations...hmmm tricky...I think I know where Im going with it visually...I think?

[Ilaekae]

Lem's Star Diaries would be so cool if you could pull it off, Tonic. Definitely epic...

[Phaethon]

No idea if I'll have time for this, but if I do I'm going for Atlas Shrugged. Art deco skyscrapers, heavy smelting equipment, the Rocky Mountains...

[vorp]

Here's an epic for approval:

The Great War of Ancient Egypt

You've never heard of it?
Here's an overview:
The Upper and Lower Kingdoms of Egypt are on the brink of war. Peace has existed between the two peoples for over a thousand years based on trade and shared honoring of the sacred river Nile. But in the temple stronghold of Karnak, a new power has emerged. The daughter of a local fisherman, named Ra Ta, calling herself Isis Amuntek (daughter of Isis) has captured the devotion of thousands, claiming a direct lineage from the God and speaking of horrible catastrophes seen in visions unless Egypt is united under her banner. The established King of Upper Egypt and of the holy stronghold of Luxor, Annead Aud, escaped during her uprising to the safety of allies in Lower Egypt, where Isis Amuntek's forces hold less sway. Through a treaty with Tefnut Amun, existing lord of Lower Egypt in the coastal stronghold of Tanis, Annead Aud amassed an enormous army to wage the first war between Upper and Lower Egypt in more than a thousand years.

Will it fly? I really want to try to do ancient Egyptian scenery.
Thanks.

[Earendil]

Hey Chaos, what about Greg Bear's "The Forge of God"?

[chaosrocks]

vorp.. nope won't fly... not literature, you can do th edook of the dead if you like

Phaeton, sounds good, are you familiar withthe works of Lynd Ward, and Paul Manship?

rayk no you ar enot required to post wips.. not a bad idea though, cause theres a buncha wiseish peopl around here, as well as me who is calling the shots
not a bad idea to get feedback

Tonic-- Lew>>>>>than salvatore. by a long shot. Star diaries would be great

pokepetter-- that works

kenjitsu-- movie is a no- go ,, don't waste you r time. do like rayke and grab one of the suggested things on tape. or what about the childrens classic sagas.
surely you must have read something some time


the book of three (the chronicles of Prydain)
Narnia
Wind in the Willows
the complete books of Laura Ingall wilder
East of the Sun West of the Moon is one of the few fairy tales I would accept

the tale the Genji? the pillow book of Lady Murasaka?

the heiki tales (please forgive my spelling in Japanese

brewin-- ok I guess

suman d 123 -- Sure thing Bunyan is fine

[Adele]

Concepts for 'the rabbit hole' for Alice...

[Viridis]

Hmmm... I've never done an EOW before but I really do need practice on my environments, so... I'll take a crack at it.

I'd like to take His Dark Materials, please.

[Jim_Hatama]

I think I `ll draw Alice in wonderland

[Janto]

It's gotta be Earthsea for me, it's the one thing on the list that really jumps out at me, and I know well enough to do justice to. Now I just have to narrow it down to 5 locations - I guess I'll do multiples of the big, obvious locations, such as the School of Roke, but there's stuff it's going to be hard to choose between.

[Phaethon]

@Chaosrocks - Yes I am, though I'd never had names to connect to their work. Thanks!

[daestwen]

I'm kinda surprised that no one has picked Naomi Novik's Temeraire series yet, with its "what if" take on the epic Napoleonic Wars by dragon interference. I mean, Peter Jackson has even optioned all of her books now for movie development (he just bought the options for her last two books per the publishing newsletter I got earlier this week). Doesn't mean that they will actually become movies, but you never know. :)

http://www.temeraire.org/


Actually, chaos, I know I suck at enviros but maybe I can pump something out for this one. I love love love the Temeraire books... But if I can't take those, could I take the His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman?

Actually, damn, or maybe I could do the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix?

Does Horatio Hornblower count as epic? There are 11 books...

Ahm, chaos, could I play around with all these for a couple days and see which one I find is easier to work with?

[Sundance]

Chaos...for clarity:

Can characters be included, as long as they are not the focal point, in the environment?

Thanks,
Dan

[chaosrocks]

daestwen, any of those are cool
I think a couple folks are already doing dark materials, not that that should stop you. Hornblower is assuredly epic, as is Patrick o"brien

sunny.. read the thread silly I;ve answered this already. but yes you can include characters for flavour but they should be condiments only not hte main course

[kenjitsu]

Yeah, I'm listening to dune right now, the first book... 14H, meh. :)

[Kmadden2004]

I might give this one a go if my new wacom shows up in post any time soon. Well, that's ebay for you.

I'd love to try out Beowulf, I love that poem (especially Seamus Heaney's translation), but the way I imagine it isn't a million miles from that film from last year...

[chaosrocks]

avoid film images
ever been to the beowulf mud show at the rennfest?

[hutachip]

hey chaos....

is "The count of monte cristo" - alexander dumas okay?

must be troublesome to go through all these posts hehe :lounge:

[Viridis]

Actually, chaos, I know I suck at enviros but maybe I can pump something out for this one. I love love love the Temeraire books... But if I can't take those, could I take the His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman?

Actually, damn, or maybe I could do the Abhorsen Trilogy by Garth Nix?



Ooh, Abhorsen. Those books are amazing. Now why didn't I think of those? I'd love to see some environments from the various levels of Death. :3

[Felicity]

Heyo

I'd like to do Gormanghast please!

[chaosrocks]

count of monti christo is fine
gormenghast is approved

[Vulgar`]

I don't know about the 2nd and 3rd books of the trilogy but Sabriel by Garth Nix was garbage to me when I read it a few years ago.

[zelda_geek]

hmm, sounds fun. I think I'm gonna participate in this one, it'll be my first time. I was going to ask about doing the Wheel of Time when I saw that TobbA aready asked for it...
Just started on the first image:

[revenebo]

I really don't know if I manage to take part in this EoW but I'd really like to.
I love Lovecraft's works but I already used them as base for the DEEP contest. What about the Gospel? Should I stay true to time and setting or can I make it more fancy (e.g. a post-apocalyptic Gospel or something like God of War version of ancient Greece)?

[chaosrocks]

there are several cases where people are doing the same Epics.. This is ok, everyone's vision is different thats the wonderful quality of using the written word as a basis. that being said... wheel of time ... bleh. but you can do it if you like

Rev- i has to be recognizable... visually. without wordy explaination. beyond that interpret as you wiill. when you say Gospel I assume you mean New Testament Christian Bible? bethlahem, sea of gallilee, desert wilderness, garden of getsthemane.....etc etc? sure go for it

[Hideyoshi]

Neverending Storyis a GO, right chaos? Then I'd go with that!

arttorney: yeah, thanks for the list, I see how there's definitely some places to illustrate. But then, it would basically all get down to roughly mountains, seas and ancient buildings which could be a lil boring...

[Windsrock]

I'm reading the book of wizard of Oz and I hope it gives me lots of ideas to work for this :D

[chaosrocks]

hideyoshi-- I trust you to stay away from the movie images. sure go ahead

Windsrock -- there are 13 books.... :P.. and Im sure you can avoid the movie images as well

[Ian J]

Aww man...I only saw this one today so I'm kinda behind, but anyway can I please do Raising Dragons from the Dragons in our Midst series?

Sweet topic b.t.w.
:yayca:

[nickmarshallvfx]

Im pretty sure i wont have time to enter this, but in case i find some spare hours, do i have approval for Terry Brooks Shannara series?

Thanks

[revenebo]

Yes, I meant the New Testament. I thought that simply "the Gospel" was enough. The downside of living in a country with only ONE religion is that one assumes that every reference to THE religion is obvious...
(for the record I'm not a big fan of it, the last time I read the New Testament was fifteen years ago. But I think it could be interesting to add a twist to the usual iconography...)

[vibhas_virwani]

sorry guys , just too low on self confidence :( .... backing out ... :S

[Mock]

Hoping I can make time between finals, but how about the Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny? They have some really amazing visual descriptions in those books.

[Trashy]

I couldn't forgive myself if I missed this event.

I'm gushing over the possibilities of The Waste land by T.S. Eliot. This is going to be daunting and exciting:)

[chaosrocks]

Amber is a yes

The wastelaND IS A yes in fact im dying of curiousity with what you do with it

Dragons in our midst is ok a guess

shannara is ok I guess... didn't think the were particularly readable though atleast not the first 6 I read

Vibhas... aw.... you can do it... it's not about winning Id be proud of you for just tackling it!

[corspufo]

Hey Chaos, I'm thinking of throwing my hat in the ring. If anything I'd like to do George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice, specifically Game of Thrones. I didn't know, can we do a different image for each different place or did it have to be 5 images of one particular location in the entire epic?

Also, I'm torn with Game of Thrones and The Wheel of Time.... anyways, what do you think Chaos?

[warbait]

how about a brave new world or the time machine, they probably not epic, but both very controversial, im leaning towards brave new world,
and if any is doing this or suggesetted it i didnt go through all the posts on the thread

[chaosrocks]

brave new world did go past as a suggestion a while ago. you're welcome to try it. It's not very visually descriptive though. Good luck.

there aare a number of peopel working on wheel of time
and at leat one other working on Martin I think

the idea is to illustrate 5 environments from the book, not one place five time (why would you do that?)

[Cuervo]

Never done a EOW before but hey, if i dont start i cant finish.

Chaos, im sure your getting sick of people asking but... :P
ive got Dantes divine comedy sat on my shelf as a fail safe, but ive got into a new book called 'eve:the emperean age'.. full of imagery.. sci-fi stuff etc, which would be a laugh to illustrate. so any chance of that one? not sure if classes in the same league as some of the ones mentioned, but worth a shot?

either that or 'The hungry Catapiller' :P

[Janto]

Quick question regarding presentation, chaos. You mentioned that consideration for target audience will be a criteria that the judges will be using. How should we explain this aspect? I'm tempted to draw up a briefing document outlining the plot, target audience, USPs and a vague outline of gameplay, host it externally and allow people to download it for reference, but is that a bit mad?

There's no way I'm showing the art without a brief blurb about its relevance as a game environment and how ideas for gameplay mechanics influenced the choice of location, stuff like 'this would serve as the game's first hub for quests'.

[Angel Intheuk]

Excellent! I've been on a Pratchett bender these passed few months :D

count me in - if I have time

[tatiana]

Quick question regarding presentation, chaos. You mentioned that consideration for target audience will be a criteria that the judges will be using. How should we explain this aspect? I'm tempted to draw up a briefing document outlining the plot, target audience, USPs and a vague outline of gameplay, host it externally and allow people to download it for reference, but is that a bit mad?

There's no way I'm showing the art without a brief blurb about its relevance as a game environment and how ideas for gameplay mechanics influenced the choice of location, stuff like 'this would serve as the game's first hub for quests'.

Heh, I've already made my own brief with gameplay scenarios just to help narrow down my preferred environment selections from my "Epic", and to help me decide who my possible target audiences are. I figured on posting bits of the brief once I started posting progress sketches here and in my CA sketchbook thread (particularly since I've been rather bad about updating that this past year).

Maybe we could post something like a "treatment" just to introduce the final art at the end, Chaos? Like the blurb on the back of the gamebox. :)

[Toskyer]

I know its late but I think William Gibsons trilogy of nueromancer, count zero and mona lisa overdrive should be included as an epic.

[chaosrocks]

gibson's fine
cuervo author please?

tatiana and janto
feel free to do this for your own edification but remember that this is a concept art challenge. the design aspect and the audience aspect should be represented visually and they included as a method of making your 5 pieces cohesive. the judges are not goingto read long explaination of game play, neither is an AD. that which is being communicated should be communicated visually. each Environment should need no more than a label.
ie : whole design , all five labeled "Thomas Mallory, Le Morte d Artur" individual scene labeled "camelot" end of writing, and this should be included with in the design scenario. Think like and Artist, not like a game designer, would be my recommendation.

I have also been asked if one of the five environment images can be a map. I will accept that with the caveat that maps are much more design oriented and will be judged on a higher design standard. and it better be integrated into the design aesthetic seamlessly. (yes some of these are big Art school type words... learn them, if you don't already know them. and I am generally on IRC and can be tracked down for question and discussion fairly easily BUT if you are inclined to argue ... be assured. i will listen, but i am AD..another lesson to learn in a slightly more friendly setting than the real world)

[corspufo]

the idea is to illustrate 5 environments from the book, not one place five time (why would you do that?)

Well, in the Wheel of Time, Tar Valon is a location filled with plenty of opportunities. A shot from the river of the White Tower, the streets of Tar Valon, the Amrylin Seat's study, The Accepted's Quarters, The Kitchens, The Warder's Training grounds, where the Black Sisters meet. Lots of places. Also, it's not unheard of to do multiple images of a particular location for film. Sometimes just one image isn't enough. So for me, it's easy to take the assignment to mean one location in a particular story.

BUT if those 2 are off the table, then I'll think of some others. Thanks for the heads up Chaos!

[chaosrocks]

"A shot from the river of the White Tower, the streets of Tar Valon, the Amrylin Seat's study, The Accepted's Quarters, The Kitchens, The Warder's Training grounds, where the Black Sisters meet."

THAT IS SEVEN DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENTS
each VISUAL IMAGE IS Different
what aren't you iunderstanding
????

I mean
five different views of the white tower, would be..perhaps nessisary in film.. but not in concepting but that isn't even close to what Im asking for

five different features of the same city? sure

[Cuervo]

Chaos the autoher is called Tony Gonzales.

[Jangles]

Chaos is The Magician's Nephew alright to do?

[tatiana]

tatiana and janto
feel free to do this for your own edification but remember that this is a concept art challenge. the design aspect and the audience aspect should be represented visually and they included as a method of making your 5 pieces cohesive. the judges are not going to read long explaination of game play, neither is an AD. that which is being communicated should be communicated visually. each Environment should need no more than a label.
ie : whole design , all five labeled "Thomas Mallory, Le Morte d Artur" individual scene labeled "camelot" end of writing, and this should be included with in the design scenario. Think like and Artist, not like a game designer, would be my recommendation.

No worries, I'm definitely not a game designer. :) I'll be happy to stick to labels for this challenge.

[Tonic]

I think it may be useful for those who are worrying about deadline or have problems with bizarre perspectives (Hideyoshi ;)) - I've found that Google SketchUp is great for 3D sketches - you can do a lot of things. The interface is riduculously intuitive, zooming tools are great - you can walk on platform or look around just like a human - that's perfect for us. You can also edit shadows or disable them and make edges sketchy, like as I've done. Also, you can set the third perspective distortion like as you want (though it's better not to overdo):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/eow100_epic/sektchup_test.jpg

It's free - for more info, look there: http://sketchup.google.com/

At this moment I'm reading The Star Diares. After reading the first chapter, I knew it was a good choice - ideas made me blew away. And I can't forget to mention about author's specific humour sense :P

By the way, 21 days (3 weeks) has remained! :P Reading the whole book and doing the idea/creativity stage will take 7-11 days, in the rest days I'm going to draw those 5 works that will show different places from book.

[Pixeltuner]

Ok, I've never done an EOW but this sounds interesting.

Chaos: I'm a big, big Terry Pratchett fan and I could pick 5 settings from the whole world (rimfalls, hub, klatch, ankh morpork, uberwald.. etc.) easily. But should I stick to one book? i.e.: should the enviros be story related?

[chaosrocks]

jangles .. sure
cuervo.. im am oing hunting for hteses books.. go for ti

[Mr--Jack]

Had a change of heart (after starting some thumbnails)—how's Peter Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn' trilogy? There's a ridiculous number and variety of settings, so would you suggest it's better to keep them more closely related (ie. from one story-arc) or would I be right in guessing it's up to us to bring a coherent sense of style to a variety of environments...?

[chaosrocks]

Peter Hamilton's ok
um dunno why you think you might be guessing at this...
I've said so often enough

:P

crx

[Pixeltuner]

but can I do teh discworldz then???

[Mat Kaminski]

Damn... this one came during finals week! Good luck guys. Maybe I might make some time before due date :-\ Dec. 3rd is last day of classes... and have 6 finals to work on before then! :0

Good luck everyone. Going to be watching this one and probably hitting it back on the rediscover thread that you guys have going elsewhere.

[ZsMann]

I'd like to attempt a song of ice and fire... more so a storm of swords

[tmbritton]

I didn't read this entire thread, so I don't know if it's been asked. What about Grapes of Wrath?

Thanks.

[chaosrocks]

heheh
yes you can do grapes of wrath

it better not looklike the movie

diskworld is fine
Zsmann;; ok

[animosapien]

hi chaos ..?

How about 'Ramayana', 'Mahabharath' and 'Kamasutra'..?:oneye:

I know it may sound a bit tangent..but im just trying to showcase something which people haven't seen much..
and of course intentionally ripping the cliche B movie depictions too..

trying my teeeth and nail on it..
lemme know about your opinion chaos..

rocking concept:yayca:

[vibhas_virwani]

hi chaos ..?

How about 'Ramayana', 'Mahabharath' and 'Kamasutra'..?:oneye:



hey man , i already asked that , and ramayana and mahabharath were acceptable .....
but kamasutra ?? lol i DARE you to do that man :P how would you make a game out of it ?? lol and environments ?? hahaha ...

@chaos : by the way , i am working on ramayana anyway ... thanks , i might try :)

[vibhas_virwani]

heres a wip sketch for my first environment piece .... PLEASE criticize ?!??!

[Pixeltuner]

diskworld is fine


awesome, time to grab my Discworld Companion (the revised one) book then and pick some cool places. Oh man, Lancre, Death's Domain, The Mended Drum.. this is gonna be fun :)

[Angel Intheuk]

but can I do teh discworldz then???

Yup yup :D (and a good thing too as that's practically all I've read this year!) - be interesting to see how we both tackle it.

[Cookiedough]

Chaos:
Perhaps, for the sake of clarity and more questions, you could edit the first post with a list of names and books that are approved.

Book__________Artist
Title--------------Nickname

That way you'll have a better oversight of who does what (and what you/the jury will have to look up), and people can easily look up what already is approved. Perhaps will also tease some people to do some unique books/less popular ones.

[chaosrocks]

actually the Kamasutra, as hilarious as it might be to make a game out of it (isn't that called 2nd life?) isn't really either epic, or a narrative. the others are and have been approved.... if you really wanna try soe thing different don't rip th eB movies... emmulate the persian miniatures as 2d game enviros... they'd be gorgeous.... wish I had the time or skill to do it.

cookie.... whimper.... its a grand idea... but so much work. you actually think people would read it?

[Cookiedough]

Chaos:
I'm just remembering the 'Illustrate a song'-girl contest and 'Tarotcards'-contest. That helped with evening out entries and give some oversight. And also helped with critting eachother/inspiration. I'm not gonna be sexist and say that only girls read :P , i'm sure the boys do too.

[Pixeltuner]

Yup yup :D (and a good thing too as that's practically all I've read this year!) - be interesting to see how we both tackle it.
yes indeed :) good luck to both of us then.

[animosapien]

thanks a ton chaos..
i can see my friend 'vibhas' is already 'ramayana'ing there..


vibhas:
i'll scratch a sketch for kamasutra..
though this wont be my official entry..( i'll be working on the serious one..)
but it is indeed challenging but it will be fun.. and i have a hope that it can make a great RPG.

Chaos:
thank you for accepting Ramayan and Mahabharatha..
ripping B movies meant ..ripping apart the cliche images..
wow..persian miniatures..?
2D environments..
sounds great
thats a funky new idea..

best of luck 'Epic'torians..

( wheres my smilie with the CA flag..?.)

[Demo]

Chaos Im not sure if you said Harry potter was ok or if someone had taken it but im doing illistrations for a class and currently re-reading the 4th and i think the tourne could be done on a bigger scale....:)
also if thats not ok im also reading Beowulf and maybe dune sooo
(now i play the waiting game)......

[Felicity]

Hello, some nice looking work being posted.

I've attached a couple of thumbs, I'd be very pleased to get some feedback. The initial thought is the value's are waaaaay too black in the darks - and the 1st thumb needs more development by way of rooftops....more to come!

By the way I hope I'm attaching the files correctly - my first post for.....a couple of years! (used to be magicbear), so correct me if I go astray!

[vibhas_virwani]

2nd quick sketch after reading a HUGE HUGE description from LOTS of books and websites ........ PLEASE comment and/or criticize ....

[plasmax]

chaosrocks, can I use the Culture universe created by Iain M Banks in his books for the theme to my entry? :)

[Ramza]

Hiya Chaos - I'd like to do The Hobbit if thats ok?

I don't do much reading, but that is one book on your list that I can still kinda remember... will have to go through it again for sure.

[chaosrocks]

plasmax... ok
Ramza--- hobbit is fine

[Demo]

Chaos ummm chaos is harry potter 4 ok or not i never got a yah or a nahhh

[bartdeco]

Chaos ummm chaos is harry potter 4 ok or not i never got a yah or a nahhh

Demo, Potter has been OK'ed

bart

[Demo]

Bart thanks been hesitant to start putin anything to the digital process for the past 3 days with out an ok

[tatiana]

Hey Chaos I've gone ahead and listed the selections with artists in the format that Cookiedough suggested...all you have to do is cut and paste. :)
I think there were about 3-4 people that had expressed interest but had not yet mentioned any epic selection...and I might have missed a few...sorry!

1. Don Quixote de la Mancha ---------- daveneale
2. Wizard of Oz (World of Oz) ---------- AndreRuben
3. Dune ---------- Kamikazebob
4. The Inferno/Dante’s Divine Comedy ---------- arttorney
5. Beowulf ---------- Saturns Gate
6. Dante’s Divine Comedy ---------- hunchbackmagee
7. Gilgamesh ---------- gmblfdz
8. Bram Stoker's "Dracula" ---------- timothee
9. Malazan Books of the Fallen ---------- Sorknes
10. Song of Ice and Fire ---------- nimbusnacho
11. Hitchhiker’s Guide ---------- Chibihomey
12. The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by H.P. Lovecraft ---------- iwantjelly
13. Burrough's "Mars" ---------- rayk
14. the odyssey ---------- tonysaurus
15. "At the Mountains of Madness" ---------- Corrick
16. The Dark Tower Series ---------- Sundance
17. Glen Cook's Black Company books ---------- Ave101
18. Maupassant ---------- derriere
19. Dan Simmon's Hyperion/Endymion ---------- m@.
20. The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan ---------- artiphats
21. Ragnarok (Norse mythology) ---------- Xenier
22. Nibelungenlied ---------- Relic
23. Paradise Lost ---------- aberrant85
24. Peter Hamilton's 'Night's Dawn' trilogy ---------- Mr--Jack
25. Alice in Wonderland ---------- petitemistress
26. Ringworld by Larry Niven ---------- Espenboi
27. David Gemmells epic novel Legend ---------- Gaius
28. the Ramayana ---------- vibhas_virwani
29. Alice in Wonderland ---------- Adele
30. The Neverending Story ---------- hungryan
31. Stanislaw Lem's books -- "The Star Diaries" ---------- Tonic
32. Ender's Game Series ---------- ChaoticKnight
33. Follett's Pillar's ---------- Vyse
34. Clive Barker's Abarat ---------- Orunitier
35. Anne McCaffrey’s Pern (Dragonriders of Pern) ---------- tatiana
36. chronicles of the breaking ---------- patr1ot
37. Dark Disciple or The Wheel of Time ---------- tobbA
38. Marion Zimmer Bradley's Mists of Avalon ---------- katinki
39. Asimov's foundation trilogy ---------- TheChevver
40. The Neverending Story ---------- Hideyoshi
41. "Volsunga saga" ---------- robmorfin
42. Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One or Yann Martell's Life of Pi or “Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” ----------¿Dubious?
43. The Fairy of Dawn ---------- laekae
44. Gabriel Garcia Marques '100 Years of Solitude' or 'Love in the time of Cholera' or Ovid's Metamorphoses ---------- Mishkin275
45. William Gibson's - Neuromancer ----------2kre8
46. Dune ---------- ajv/.
47. Atlas Shrugged ---------- nimbusnacho
48. Wigalois or Parzival ---------- legendarybarr
49. Eon by Greg Bear ---------- kilz
50. Gormenghast or Count of Monte Cristo ---------- zephyri
51. "Eden" by Lem ---------- aer
52. 1984 by George Orwell ---------- brewin
53. romance of three kingdom or The Fountainhead or franz kafka's k ---------- zenichi
54. John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ---------- suman_d123
55. The Moses Epic (The Holy Bible) ---------- pokepetter
56. Atlas Shrugged ---------- Phaethon
57. Greg Bear’s The Forge of God ---------- Earendil
58. His Dark Materials ---------- FlameRaven
59. Alice in Wonderland ---------- Jim_Hatama
60. Earthsea ---------- Janto
61. Beowulf ---------- Kmadden2004
62. The count of monte cristo - alexander dumas ---------- hutachip
63. Gormanghast ---------- Felicity
64. The Wheel of Time ---------- zelda_geek
65. The Gospel (New Testament Bible) ---------- revenebo
66. The Wizard of Oz series ---------- Windsrock
67. Raising Dragons from the Dragons in our Midst ---------- ijacobs9
68. Terry Brooks Shannara series ---------- space-sprayer
69. Amber Chronicles by Roger Zelazny ---------- Chachia
70. The Waste land by T.S. Eliot ---------- Trashy
71. George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice (Game of Thrones) or The Wheel of Time ---------- corspufo
72. brave new world or the time machine ---------- warbait
73. Tony Gonzales “eve:the emperean age” or Dante’s Divine Comedy ---------- Cuervo
74. Pratchett’s Discworld series ---------- Angel Intheuk
75. The Magician’s Nephew (Narnia Chronicles) ---------- Jangles
76. Terry Pratchett’s Discworld series ---------- Pixeltuner
77. George R.R. Martin's Song of Fire and Ice ---------- ZsMann
78. Grapes of Wrath ---------- tmbritton
79. 'Ramayana', 'Mahabharath' and 'Kamasutra'..? ---------- animosapien
80. Harry Potter ---------- Demo
81. Culture universe created by Iain M Banks ---------- plasmax
82. The Hobbit ---------- Ramza

[vorp]

Egyptian Book of the Dead for me!

[DrPudding]

Hello all, sounds like a fab EOW, so I should jump in and give it a shot.

I'm thinking the Bas-Lag novels by China Mieville (Perdidio St Station, Scar, Iron Council). Is that appropriate, Chaosrocks?

If not, how's The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe?

[chaosrocks]

book of the dead--ok
China Mieville--ok I haven't readthem yet but they come highly recommended
the genewolfe is ok too

[Jacfat]

Hey dudes im in on this one. Im gonna do the Odyssey. Here is my first wip that I pushed around today 5 images quite a bit but i reckon i can pull it :).

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j49/Jacfat/Ogygia.jpg

NOTE: The figures are a photo manipulation from http://www.characterdesigns.com/bandaid/content/photosets/2426/2451/Photoset_26_125.jpg. (just helps me tackle light and stuff without stressing over anatomy I am quite new at this :))

[Hideyoshi]

whoops, I am not the only one with Neverending Story? Sorry, didn't know...
Thanks for the listing, tatiana!

anyway, here's my first piece - trying to do some of the environments from the 2nd half of the book which was NOT in the movie. Well, not in the first movie at least. I haven't seen the sequels (which are said to be very crappy)

This is the 'House of Change':

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[Tonic]

You did catch the mood nicely - a night, cold winter. And those lovely sketchy brushstrokes :) I think it would look better if you "add chaos" to area in front of person. Perhaps frozen river with destroyed bridge or something.

Today or tomorrow I will finish the book and start the sektching/brainstorm stage. Man, I didn't painted for so long time.. I can't wait to paint those 5 works :D

[kenjitsu]

Well, I'm doing Dune, even tho there isn't that much freedom to explore. Desert planet, and that's it. ;P But I'll try to do something. I haven't seen the movie so this will be interesting.

[tatiana]

Well, I'm doing Dune, even tho there isn't that much freedom to explore. Desert planet, and that's it. ;P But I'll try to do something...

Ha! You would only believe that if you hadn't read the books. :) Curious to see what you come up with.

[Demo]

ok iv pretty much got a handel on the first and started penciling in the second enviroment. i think ill send this over to the crit section for more feed back
think im going to stay with just the enviroment of the last 2 tasks and then the grave yard havent decided on the last
1st Quiddetch world cup after death eaters
2nd Under warter task
3rd Maze
4th graveyard
5th ???

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[Sunny Koda]

Finished my research/sketches and ready to start painting!

Choosing to work from short stories was a good idea as i read slowly. The only epic I've read on the list was The Illiad and that only has one location (even if you divide it into Troy/Gates of Troy/River/Boats/Camp/Temple it's all one dusty place). And even though it was my first time reading Lovecraft I've researched the mythos in the past. Here's what I've decided upon, if there's any fans of Lovecraft feedback on my choices is welcome.

Cthulhu Cycle:
-R'lyeh
-The Mountains of Madness (Or Leng?)
-Insmouth
-The Burial Chamber of Abdul Alhazred (Derleth, but based Lovecraft's description of the Nameless City)
-Arkham Asylum

Depending on how I go I'd like to do a few more and round it out as a series of works. But this is my first attempt at landscapes so we'll see.

[Vulgar`]

Epicness..

[Corrick]

Oh, come on kenjitsu, give it a shot. I've got Antarctica to work with, and I'm excited. Besides, like she said, there's a lot more to Dune than just sand. Research!

Sunny Koda, looking forward to seeing what you got going on there... :)

[OchreHand]

Could you add me to Dante's Divine comedy :) I would love to try....

[tatiana]

I'm still doing some reading of various stories in the Dragonriders of Pern books, but I did go ahead and do some quick rough sketches (thumbnails really) of my impressions of three of the environments I'm probably doing for my "Pern Epic" concepts:
* Benden Weyr
* The Southern Continent - The Mountain
* DragonStones Cove

I'm thinking I might do interior shots for the remaining two...maybe. :)

[Tonic]

I'm still doing some reading of various stories in the Dragonriders of Pern books, but I did go ahead and do some quick rough sketches (thumbnails really) of my impressions of three of the environments I'm probably doing for my "Pern Epic" concepts:
* Benden Weyr
* The Southern Continent - The Mountain
* DragonStones Cove


The major problem with your works is that nothing happens there. Where are people? Monsters? Robots? Bird or S-F ships? What they do? Also, those landscape are possible to see in our real world, so try to add untypical elements, making the works more interesting. Using various perspectives can help a lot. Frog, fish, human, you might consider using them (though the fish perspective is pretty tricky). Just don't stick to only one :P The bird perspective that you used, can be interesting, but because of it's nature, the horizon is placed highly, so you have a lot of land space. It can give benefits if only you can "fill the land space", otherwise it may kill you! :P



I'm thinking I might do interior shots for the remaining two...maybe. :)

Acutally I came there to ask if inferior environments (laboratory, for example) are accepted. I couldn't find about it in EOW's rules, nor remember if there were EOW challenges with interior works.

[tatiana]

The major problem with your works is that nothing happens there. Where are people? Monsters? Robots? Bird or S-F ships? What they do?

Haven't added those in just yet, but I will definitely do so to help give some context to the environments.


Also, those landscape are possible to see in our real world, so try to add untypical elements, making the works more interesting. Using various perspectives can help a lot. Frog, fish, human, you might consider using them (though the fish perspective is pretty tricky). Just don't stick to only one :P The bird perspective that you used, can be interesting, but because of it's nature, the horizon is placed highly, so you have a lot of land space. It can give benefits if only you can "fill the land space", otherwise it may kill you! :P


Good points, thanks! I'll keep working away at some different views of these key scenes.


Actually I came there to ask if inferior environments (laboratory, for example) are accepted. I couldn't find about it in EOW's rules, nor remember if there were EOW challenges with interior works.

I found it helpful to check out the EOW stickies to see some samples of winning entries from past challenges, and "inferior" environments aren't winners, but a few of the good ones have been "interior" environment scenes. ;)

[gunnarsson]

oh, this sounds good! I'm definitely going to try this! I have read to few epic tales though, i don't really have any options to be stoked about... I'd like to read the story of my choosing before doing this, to get the real sence of the places. This sounds to epic to miss, i gotts to find a way!:D looking forward to seeing all the entries!

[Adele]

oh well...looks like I cant do this one..just too busy with the new job. Good luck everyone, those who are doing Alice...go hard! At least I did a few environments for it...but I just wont be able to colour them.

[warbait]

hey i was reading the post a little more and i was thinking that brave new world or time machine doesnt fit to well with "epic saga of choice is going to be pitched as an RPG" so i was hoping maybe earthsea, i know Janto is doing earthsea also what do you say if not than time machine it is
thanks whatever the outcome

[Demo]

Heres some updates got some of the next task coloured put them in a smaller format so i didnt waste too much space if any one has anycrits leave emm in somewhere ill find emm
DEMO
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[chaosrocks]

yay works coming in!!!!! spiffy!

earthsea is fine
huge numbers of very evokative landscape visuals

[warbait]

earthsea it is than

[Vyse]

Oh dudes...

Why does this epic topic have to be exactly during those weeks i have to learn for exams...? Damn... if it had been a few weeks earlier T__T
It´s not that i have absolutely no time to paint whatsoever, i just don´t have enough time for 5 elaborate pieces.... sooorry!

I would have liked to take part so badly.... maybe chances are better on eow#200. Till then, i´ll wait and watch all your fantastic entries now =)

[ZUPZUP]

I'm going to make Pellucidar my pick for E.O.W #100. Here are a few quick thumbnails just exploring different shapes and ideas, and to help me figure out which direction I want to go.

http://www.zupzup.com/Art/Pellucidar_Thumbnails_ZUPZUP.jpg

[vibhas_virwani]

Oh dudes...

Why does this epic topic have to be exactly during those weeks i have to learn for exams...? Damn... if it had been a few weeks earlier T__T
It´s not that i have absolutely no time to paint whatsoever, i just don´t have enough time for 5 elaborate pieces.... sooorry!

I would have liked to take part so badly.... maybe chances are better on eow#200. Till then, i´ll wait and watch all your fantastic entries now =)

crap !! my exams got pre-poned as well !!! stupid effin' exams >.< .... and i had already sketched out all 5 pieces :( dont think ill be able to complete them though :S ...

[kenjitsu]

Oh, come on kenjitsu, give it a shot. I've got Antarctica to work with, and I'm excited. Besides, like she said, there's a lot more to Dune than just sand. Research!

Hehe, well I've only read the first book and not seen the movie, so they only talked about the sand and the cliffs, and then the city, Arrakeen. ... Tho I could paint something from Caladan too. So let's see. I've been busy with other shit past weeks, but I might have time, I hope I will or I'll knee myself in the face.

[vibhas_virwani]

wow !! i just realised we just have 10 days or so left !! and i still dont see even one finished piece !!! i def. cant finish them as my exams got preponed to 11th december , so good luck you guys ... ill still be finishing those pieces at my own slow pace though :)

[vibhas_virwani]

lol , i keep saying that i wont be able to make all 5 in time and KNOW that and i still keep painting them :P ....
anyway , keeping that in mind , i thought i would play around with colors ... so PLEASE PLEASE someone comment and critisise this wip ?!?!?

[Angel Intheuk]

[QUOTE=Tonic;2014065]I think it may be useful for those who are worrying about deadline or have problems with bizarre perspectives (Hideyoshi ;)) - I've found that Google SketchUp is great for 3D sketches QUOTE]

Thank you, thank you, thank you :D

[tsujni]

beowulf

the dragon's cave entrance,
Heorot interior,
mom's lair exterior,
Heorot exterior

[tatiana]

Here's my fourth environment thumbnail sketch: Pern's Half-Circle Sea Hold.

I've already got some changes in mind for the layout to improve the view of the Docking Cavern and maybe give a bit more of a look at the interior of the Hall through the open doors. As with the others, I will still be adding people (more than what is barely seen through the doors) and some more of the fishing fleet to provide better overall scale info and context when I go to color with the final layout.

[Vulgar`]

Nice structure, tatiana, a suggestion would be maybe you could have a stone sculpture adorning the top of the entrance, and also you might want to make the ship bigger for scale or have the tip of another making it's way into the port.

This activity is not only a great idea but it'll most likely spawn the next 10 topics for the EOW.

[DauDau]

Am I too late to join? I am working on a comic book story and I really need to kick my own butt, and get more done, quicker.

The story takes our main character (young female) to a magic world, where she must confront her biggest fears and darkest secrets. This magic world has several environments: The Forest, The Sea, The world of Darkness, The world of Light, and her own starting point, every time she enters this world: Her own magic home/house, that alters after every big battle. That would make 5 scenes.

I can't promise to finish, but I'm a noob, so it's not like I'd be a big competitor anyway. Is it all right if I join in? I know it's very late.

[Hideyoshi]

Here is my 2nd image, The Wandering Mountain with the Childlike Empress on her way to the top. It actually looks pretty different from the description in the book... *cough

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DauDau: sure you can still enter! Just choose an epic story and off you go, painting your 5 environment pieces. :) I think you need to choose an existing novel over your own story though. Check the list by chaosrocks on page 1 for example.

Tonic: thanks! I tried to stick to the description a little, so there's no frozen lake :P

[ZUPZUP]

Beautiful image Hideyoshi!........love that warm light hitting the top of the mountain, as well those wisps of blowing snow. Those little things like the wisps really help to sell the image and give you that impression of it being cold.

[Tonic]

Finally, I finished book. I did take notes during reading, so I have already a list of places that can be illustrated. At this moment, I'm choosing places and thinking how to paint them. Just for fun, I did a sketch of world, where people think they can live under water, but in reality they can't :P

[Fenster]

This looks like fun - Would it be ok to do The Princess Bride by William Goldman?

[meganite]

Oh Em. Gee... wow, this is so awesome. I wish I could participate, but it looks like I'd be coming in a bit late.

As for me, I'd choose either Magician by Raymond E. Feist or Out of the Silent Planet by C.S. Lewis. Great, great books, and to my knowledge they haven't been illustrated... well... anywhere! My knowledge is limited, however. Maybe I'll just have to do my own tribute to them outside of the competition =)

Good luck everyone! The images are coming along great! I especially like the Pern ones, I get the feeling I've seen them before... which probably means that the description in the book was detailed enough that I imagined the same thing! I can't wait to see the final pieces.

[OchreHand]

great to see some images so far....

i'm not sure if it matters, but do I have to be officially put on the list if I want to do Dante's Divine Comedy?

although i already started, and I'm only on my second one... there never is enough time.

[vibhas_virwani]

still WIP :
this is the description of this part : when lord Ram finds out that her beloved Sita was abducted by ravana in lanka , he needed to cross the ocean to get to lanka and was about to shoot his magical arrows at the ocean which would dry it out . but thats when the ocean god apeared , volcanoes errupted , there was tension in the forests , birds flew , sun was setting making the sea appear angry like molten lava ...

so only the right part of the piece is left to detail etc. will add a foresty look to those hills in the back ground and some finishing will be required . would appreciate some feedback ....

specially about the colors and if changing the colors worked well or not ??
cheers !!