NEWBORN SPECIAL EDITION EOW! The Creation

[chaosrocks]

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/chaosrocks/EOW2.jpg

NEWBORN SPECIAL EDITION
The Creation

Brief:" In the beginniing God created the heavens and the earth"
I want to see the genesis of a world. Weither you decide to handle this geologically, or mythologically is up to you. Or maybe its a man made world.
But this is the Newborn world, just after creation.


DUE July 9th 2009
this will run 2 weeks to coincide with The Other weekly Activities
and we're off again!

NO description required, say what you need to say visually.


:right: FOLLOW THE TOPIC.

:right: POST YOUR FINAL HERE THREAD.


: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

example from CHOW

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

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

[ALH]

Oh wow, Another one that I really must join in on, goddamn, great topic! I love creation myths :D

[zimfin]

Sounds great. No idea what I am going to do for it but.....great!

[Rabies]

Whats the rules on brushes you didnt make yourself?

Sketch/possible wip c&c appreciated, as you can probably tell i used brushes for the stars, clouds and leafs

[chaosrocks]

brushes are just tools. It's what you do with them. I don't eliminate matte painting either, its how to get your idea across. (fair warnng, the matte painting better be damn good though...)

[Rabies]

brushes are just tools. It's what you do with them. I don't eliminate matte painting either, its how to get your idea across. (fair warnng, the matte painting better be damn good though...)

Much appreciation :yayca:

[AhChu]

hey I was wondering if anyone can suggest any interior concept artists to look at for reference and inspiration, Im struggling setting up my scene for my new born entry, I just cant get the right shot and ive got in my head, and hoping will fins some answers studying other peoples work.....cheers :)

[Rabies]

Colors.

C&C appreciated

[matejkovacic]

I did some thumbnails. Any suggestion which way to go?

[tsujni]

Paradise is derived from a Persian word meaning a walled garden.
And Chaos pulls me out of sweet slumber,,,

Most interesting is that the Judeo-Christian story begins with God floating above the Deep.

[MoonStruckDragonLass]

Hello all-

Er, First post. I'm brand new at this! But it sounded like great fun. I don't have much skill at characters or scenes or art in general, but I figured this'd be a great way to challenge myself, force myself to get better, eh?

Anyhow, thought I'd toss up my WIP before I headed off to bed and see what kind of reaction I could illicit.

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b52/Ceres_Blitzanger/prime01.jpg

"In the beginning, there was a great, primordial stew full of amino acids and fishes and sunlight. A whale or a marsupial crawled up out of it. Or quite possibly an alligator."

I decided to go with something rather traditional and not very fancy for my first try. Here's my primordial stew. Why do the Gods get all the credit? Darwin helped!

A brand new world, scoured clean and ready for life to come pouring in. Well, animal life anyhow.

It's twice the size of this thumbnail, and not anywhere close to done. I'd appreciate Constructive crit if you have it! Not much to comment on, but what do you think so far?



Ah, Rabies, if you don't mind the crit, I'm not too keen on the great bright circles you've got there. I think the original was much more refined and pretty. : )

Matej, I'd go with the second thumbnail. It looks like it could have so much potential! But that's just me!

[Viridis]

Wow. I did not know about this contest, but it sounds awesome. I will definitely be doing something... I think right now I"m looking at EOW and CHOW... and maybe one more. We'll see. :D

[Choob]

Time for a quick crit before bed methinks.

Rabies: Nice idea, but the colours are a bit strong, too vibrant, maybe mess around with colour schemes and try to get them more similar to each other?

Matejkovacic:I quite like the top left and bottom right thumbs, what's the idea of the top left? A godlike figure or a creation?

MoonStruckDragonLass:Welcome to the forums! It's not bad actually, I think with a little bit of work you could pull this idea through. I particularly like the left side of the WIP, the tree and the rocky bit are well rendered for such an early WIP. Get the rest of the painting up to that standard and we'll see where you an take the idea from there huh?

That's all for now guys, I'd enter but I'm looking for a decent Graphics tablet, and I'm more of a CHOW or POW guy anyway.

Nice work all round, just keep at it!

[ArtZealot]

Self Explanitory (by the way, i did not draw it, it's just here for fun):

[GRMC]

ArtZealot : wow really an explanation, totally mind blowing. Really like it , love it a lot :)

[chaosrocks]

hoot.... yesss way to crawl out of the box!

[Feil Magnus]

Artzealot: waow! Outstanding idea!

[onemorepirate]

Longcat is long is an old idea (source: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Long_cat )
Oh 4chan.org and all its mutant offspring.
I'm not even saying Artzealot isn't the original artist of that image, he may be; but either way it was an image made a long time ago and not for this specific challenge.

[chaosrocks]

Art zealot..have you anything to say?
before I yank this image as un atributed..you weren't going to post it to final burning right?

[ArtZealot]

Nonono, i just posted that in for fun. I didn't draw it either, but it seemed funny and relevant to the thread.

[Halix]

I drew what came into my head, which is a creature that creates worlds, as a kind of creation myth. I tried to make the planet the focus but I'm not sure it worked out that way. Any suggestions to make this better? I was thinking of reducing the size of the creature in relation to the planet and taking out the sun to improve the focus.

I even added a Myth poem to do with the red harvest moon :)

Wyrm of heavens,
In darkness ranges,
Travels twixt the stars,

To gather dust,
Of systems dead,
And bring them to birthing ground,

By living stars,
Forming new worlds,
In every corner of the Cosmos,

And every year,
He visits his works,
To watch the harvest grow,

Always travelling,
We catch a glimpse,
When the moon does redly glow.

[tsujni]

I drift in the strange circles, I communicate the real, next I communicate the ideal. peace.

[Zirngibism]

I decided to take a different approach to this. Instead of going mythological or philosophical, I thought it might be neat to show a level being created by game developers, who are actually INSIDE the world they're creating, interacting with the mesh through weaving, pulling, and stacking.

I think I might abandon this now, just 'cuz I'm really busy. So I just decided to post this WIP. I might pick it up as a personal project when I have the time though.

I'd say it's 20% done now. The idea isn't really being clearly conveyed right now.

But it was kind of a fun experiment so far.

[Aram]

Hi party people,

as usually my work is not as cunningly made as the pieces i have seen from others. But i try to improve my skills (art & English writing skills :-) ) Enjoy.

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj193/Aram_ZV/EOWSpecial_Aram.jpg

[Jakers]

Not a very original direction, but im trying to show men establishing a new world; their initial approach upon something pristine which hasn't faced outside corruption during its early life - the first colonizable world found by man outside the solar system. I think the second image is closer to what I want, with new, shallow springs. Should be better with some otherworldly plantlife.

[Rabies]

Iwe been pretty bussy with the Newborn theme, and since i allmost finished my eow at the start of the week(s) i kinda forgot it :S Anyhow, im going to france tommorow so i wont be here to post the final so here it is :D

[Corrick]

WIP

http://williamwerk.com/art/birth2.jpg

[yoitisi]

Dude, Corrick, nice to see you're back :) Haven't seen you post in a while. I like the general atmosphere you've got going there. All the elements in there seem to be floating around a bit too much though, I think. They could use a few more clues of being part of the same structure maybe. Also, what about a few things in the foreground?

[Jakers]

I agree with yoitisi - a few more elements and this could be awesome - it feels like a great start and I was definately curious upon first glance.

I need to rework some things, but heres the color so far on my new world. Advice so far is to drop the ships down and make them more of a focal point, since they ARE I suppose what will form the new world for mankind in the description.

[MoonStruckDragonLass]

Corrick- Don't listen to them. I think it is absolutely fantastic the way it is!

Though I'd like the see the robotic arm a little more clearly, however, and perhaps I would put a few things in to the left, just to show scale. . . .

I don't understand how you manage to get such clean, clear, lovely colours. I can never manage shades like that. What program do you use?

[arttorney]

I think your's is beautiful so far Zirnbigism. I hope you come back and finish this one some day even if it is not in time for this competition.

[Jakers]

I do love the idea as well Zirnbigism, definately has a cool concept behind it. Its a hard one to make feel 'natural' because we're soo used to moving all those polys by oursleves hehe. I think if you put on natural feeling textures, or simplified them into colored geometry with some atmospheric effects it would be much nicer. The texture right now (though its in the making for the people there) is a bit crazy.


I updated this to enhance the focal points of the ships a bit further, hopfully its better.


http://www.jakecollinge.com/EOW_creation_final_t.jpg

*EDIT - adding Icon

[MoonStruckDragonLass]

Man theres no way I'm gonna have mine done in time :/ I was scheduled to work way more then I should have been. Hopefully I'll get it done some day though. . . Ugh.

Jakers, what program do you use?

[Corrick]

yoitisi, Jakers, thanks for the comments and the suggestions, all very much appreciated (and hopefully implemented)! I posted it up in a pretty amorphous state so there was definitely plenty to do.

Jakers, your ships seem a little flat against the gorgeous environment you've worked up. A little more depth on those and it'll sell the piece wonderfully!

MoonStruckDragonLass, thank you as well, and I use Photoshop CS3. Don't be silly either, you can most certainly manage shades like this. Picking your color pallet is one of the most important steps in my opinion. Light and color can sell almost anything. Now update your piece!

[guilefine]

Hi, I really love the weekly activities and especially the environment of the week and I hope to continue to post more here.

This is my final image for the new born challenge, thanks for looking.

[ForScience]

Howdy! its a weird take on the subject but I kinda like it. This is an hour and a half in. I don't know if I am going to submit a final since I just got started tonight, but I thought I would show what I have.

[guilefine]

The first image is hosted by ca and I didn't fully understand that it wouldn't let you put that image in the poll so this image is hosted by photobucket. Sorry thanks for being patient.



http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e38/joefeinsilver/EOWTheCreation_Guilefine.jpg

[Jakers]

Sorry I haven't entered EOW before and forgot about the Icon!

I edited my post above and put it in.

Is anything happening with this since the deadline is already passed? I think those who entered a final post need to also add an icon?

[Windsrock]

Just lurking around and noticed some thing to resolve :)
You don't add icon here, but finals thread when it's up. Also you put your final image there.

[chaosrocks]

Sorry Im late as usual.. tech week is killing me .... Final Burning is posted.
Please don't foget you outside posted icon
K thx

crx

[ArtZealot]

Has the due date on this topic been extended? i see people are still posting stuff today... I've away from the internet for about 2 weeks and just found out about this contest and if it's been extended i might whip something out in the next few days...

[Steve Marworthy]

Isn't this how the world was created?

[{CKL}]

Can we close this up and move to the next one, pretty please?

[Hideyoshi]

Can we close this up and move to the next one, pretty please?

yes, please.
Don't want to be a pain in the butt but EOW is moving really slow compared to the other rounds. It always takes forever for new topics to start or even the poll being set up. I know it has partially to do with the sparse participation, but maybe some topics just don't spawn enough interest and we should simply move ahead. I will also try to take part a little more again...

[Tonic]

Should finish today. WIP:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eow/newborn/wip1.jpg

About deadline issues. If chaos has work issues, then someone, who's willing and have enough free time, should take her place temporarily, like Poshspice and daestwen do in character community activity. Anyone? ;)

[Mishkin275]

Tonic- that sketch is BADASS! You should post it up in the final thread even though its... dead.... Whats going on here? Is EOW shutdown? I agree with you guys that we need to get this thing rolling on a timely basis. More people will participate + take it seriously if it goes as regularly as CHOW.. IMO we should also focus more on concrete topics to get a steadier attendance (it always seems the conceptual prompts turn people off).

[Tonic]

Thanks, Mishkin :) I don't worry much about finals, if I'll be too late, it's alright. About the silence, chaosrocks have work issues. I repeat, we need someone who would replace her temporarily.. that would solve the problem.

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eow/newborn/wip2.jpg

Few more details and small color refinements and I'll post it in finals thread.

[Ludo]

My final post.

[chaosrocks]

ok I m back> I apologise
I have been entirely off grid

moving on now

[chaosrocks]

ok I m back> I apologise
I have been entirely off grid

moving on now

[ArtZealot]

yes, please.
Don't want to be a pain in the butt but EOW is moving really slow compared to the other rounds. It always takes forever for new topics to start or even the poll being set up. I know it has partially to do with the sparse participation, but maybe some topics just don't spawn enough interest and we should simply move ahead. I will also try to take part a little more again...

I actually agree with you. I've been waiting for awhile for a decent topic, but just havent seen anything really all that interesting. Call me crazy but topics like "cyberspace" "The Bridge Between two Very Different cities" "spiritual retreat" seem overly generic and is probably a contributing factor to the lack of popularity or overall participation in EOW. I don't have a solution so i'm pretty much just complaining, i just wish we saw more interesting topics cause for a loooong time, they've been pretty bad, and the participation numbers can prove it. We've had good ones here and there but they've been few and far between... anyway, that's just me being a "pain in the butt"

[chaosrocks]

you guys want my job?

here it is.

hideyoshi--- EOW 116 you pick....
Artzealot --- EOW 117 you pick.... Its harder than you think

good luck, pm me your choices.

the generic ones get better response than the very specific ones.

[JessiBean]

Ben Mauro did an awesome project while in school where he depicted the inside of Skinner's apartment from Ratatouille - something that was never in the movie, and a challenge to build something inside the universe that already exists is something that intrigues me. Maybe some topics where you have to inject a story into the image will help make (most) everyone happy... we've already done Dracula's castle, maybe think of some other well known characters whose homes/lairs/habitats would be neat to design?
Something Alice in Wonderland like would be neato, too, what with the new movie coming out and all the crazy variations one can make on things like a Mad Hatter's Tea Party. :teeth:

And stop complaining so much! Make moar suggestions, peeps.

[revenebo]

Everyone would like to work on Sherlock Holmes's Living Room or Steampunk Venice but what happens if we are asked to design My Little Ponies' Stables?
IMHO we should be prepared to work on everything is thrown at us. A professional (or an aspiring pro) can't whine if he/she asked to work on something he/she doesn't like.

[chaosrocks]

rev.. the steampunk concert hall was a flop...

thanks for the support Jessi
the following are the Eow challenges that were from specific sources
Coleridge's Xanadu
Tribute to Blade Runner
rapunzels tower
castle Chariot, from th e once and future King
Two houses both alike in dignity (Romeo and Juliet)
Milliways:The restauant at the end of the universe
Dracula's castle
there may have been others

I am un comfortable with assuming that we all have the same literary back ground and asssuming , for instance that all of us are familiar with Alice (although Alice is a good one) BUt you can't really assume that everyone saw ratitoullie. But I have tried to do a fairly large number of challenges based on archtypes. (valhalla, battlestation, Unicorn Valley..etc etc
Unfortunately most people participate when it's easy and not when it's difficult. So although my preference is for challenges that actually test the metal of the artists and make them think. ... most people seem only want to do it if the image is aleady in their mental data banks which tends to lead to shiny but trite solutions. the challenges that intrigue me are those that really have never been portrayed ... So I will muddle along as best as I can.... and people will bitch about it no matter what I do. For example if I make it a strict week... everyone hollars that it isn't enough time. If I stretch it out I get yelled at for moving topics along too slowly.....go figure

[Corrick]

Don't dumb down the topics, let people do the research. Chaos, you keep right on testing people's mettle.

There's a suggestion thread full up with ideas, more getting added all the time.

EOW is just a different animal. People are gonna do it or they're not. The topics are going to be, by their nature, fundamentally different than CHOW or COW. And I can honestly say most people just don't want to try to make something interesting.

Chaos, great job. Maybe two weeks overdue is frustrating, but it's better than not having an EOW at all. I'm in for the Thieves Den.

[MoonStruckDragonLass]

Here here, Corrick, I agree!

Chaos, you do a brilliant job. I considered grumbling about the slow move on, but then I realized I couldn't make last round's deadline, even after it was 'extended', because I was over scheduled and then ended up on vacation without a tablet. I took the time instead to brush up on my fundamentals, and figured that if you weren't just over-extended at work, that you or someone you knew may have been in trouble, or that you had a wedding, etc.

I feel like environments that are creative and different are hard to come up with and hard to be good at, which is why EOW sees low participation. I myself consider it a weak point, so that why I go for it. It's easy to come up with Bob, you can relate to a character so much better, as you yourself are a character. So many people dismiss the environments they live in, so many people see backgrounds as something you bs so your character doesn't have a white backdrop, that I don't think EOW is going to see the kind of participation that CHOW gets. It's just a harder, more noble topic that not everyone can be good at. Personally, I look at the examples and winners, and I just feel like this little corner of my mind opens up, and the ideas flood in. I feel like new worlds really are opening to me, that I really can be good enough at this some day. Most art doesn't make me feel like that. Most art makes me feel like I'm not good enough. I'd be rather devastated if we lost EOW.

I am looking forward to participating when it is both easy and difficult. I like a little challenge! I'm all in for Thieves Den. Got my sketches in progress, though I'm not sure if I should take it Ali-Babba style, or put my own twist on it. . . Already so many ideas!

Chaos you do a fantastic job! Don't stop!

But I still think you should use the idea of 'Twin Pyramids' >: D

[Hideyoshi]

hey I wasn't exactly complaining about the topics, was I? I Just pointed out that some topics don't spawn much interest (and that is due to many reasons) which was a simple observation from my side. :P I did complain about the slow progress with rounds and wrapping up the ones that show meager participation which I assume many could agree with, no?

[Ragnj]

What about a futuristic take on religious buildings like mosques, churchs etc? 2100-3000 AD?