Idea Suggestions

[Form]

Ok guys, ideas for EOW's go here.. take some thought with these...

[artkitty]

here's some:

deep-space prison
fungal tunnel
ant farm
future zoo
island temple
fjord bridge
frontier savings & loan
ancient aqueduct

[yAdam]

A few ideas from me:

City slums
Cyber forest
The inventors' Lab
Mesosphere storm observation
The great dam
Waterfall village
Ancient palace ruins
Solar system tour station
Worship grounds

[Dragonspit]

all great ideas. I don't have anything specific. But I was thinking maybe something based around vehicles would be appropriate.

[darkwolfb87]

Here's a bunch:

a future green city (environmentally friendly)
ancient sacrificial grounds
early volcanic planet formation
apocalyptic crater hole
city within a crater hole
a city on an offshore plateau
city on a giant bridge
impenetrable terrain
unearthed temple ruins with lush vegetation
coastal gorge with lush vegetation
ideal artists studio
an atrium the height of a skyscraper

[fionkell]

Getting my gears going:

Frosted-over, abandoned outpost in the Siberian wasteland
Broken bridge stretching out over a rocky, misty chasm
Outback (as in Australia) ceremonial grounds
Giant, symmetrical tunnel bored through a mountain in the jungle
The interior of a griffin's eyrie
A futuristic city perched on a desert mesa
A low-Earth orbit, or even geostationary, viewing platform
The winding, disjointed, subterranean military complex
A dog's paradise
The pirate crew's secret island harbour

[Eytan]

great idea for an activity guys, just some ideas

Palace of time
Atlantis before it sunk
Satans Palace
The hidden lagoon
the fort city
dragons grotto
the city behind the waterfall
underground city
cyborg's workshop
the future coliseum
holy sacrificial grounds
sewer village
walking/moving city

:D

[Bammer]

Abandoned hospital

[Pootle]

intergalactic animal market
post-apocalyptic school (what would they teach?)
virtual reality desktop/space/GUI (photoshop from the inside?)
parasite party place (inside a creature?)
any creature/animal as an environment

[ShrooMofDooM]

The Internet (The idea just popped into my head, though I'm not quite sure how that would look. . .Shadowrun-ish?)

Ghost Town

Wastelands

City in the Sky

Hell

Cliffside Village

Deep Forest Creek

War Zone

[Pootle]

A thought whilst driving to work - link up with COW/CHOW and create an environment for the previous winner of that event or linkt hrough and get people to work together (1 COW, 1 EOW etc) or enter 2+ events (looks like a few do 2+ already).

[saintspeed]

Building the Sphinx
The last chamber of Giza
Hollow Earth
End of days
Life underground on mars
Battletanks of the future
Polar ice caps have melted!
Ancient Tomb
Naval Exercise
WW1 meets bermuda triangle

[Plagu£]

Deaths lair
Valley of the damned
Blind mans forest
The Pirate caves
Edge of the world
Satans fog bank

[Disintegrator]

Most isolated place
Most populated place

[Motility]

Heaven
Mechwars repair/service garage (Been done?)
Inside my veins.
My room - clean (Heh, as if..)
Your dream car interior
HD Chopper build shop year 2200 (I just wanna see the future of bikes)
Clintons favorite brothel (nevermind, no good without humans)

[Smith Wesen]

-"This isn't a dragons cave if it was there would be an... oh."

[bwkeough]

*Lovecraftian town
*dungeon with torture chambers (homage to Perinesi)
*near-future military aircraft hangar
*guard tower on frontier of an iron age civilization -- first line of defense again invasion by an ancient and ruthless enemy

[Eshara]

The Glass forest
City of Glass
An underground city with lights abound
Underground graveyard
A spiritual resting place
A Mystical Wonderland
A Metal wasteland
Underwater Plant Colonies
A cave that showed signs of life
A city in hiding
The forgotten island
An ancient place of Worship
A colony living inside the gigantic trees

Maybe more later!

[pisc99]

Ancient town in runis, half destroyed by a unknown war eons ago on alien planet The town deserted, and the forest around it is slowly swallowing it.

[Smith Wesen]

-Inside of a steam punk space station
-Atlantis rising
-The aftermath in a major metropolitan area of "the bomb"
-A massive city caught in the "storm of the century"
-The City of Time
-Dwarve's advanced civilization
-City large enough that it breaks through the atmosphere
-A single tower that appears to be a clenched fist ruling over the rest of the filthy city
-An area under a futuristic city that might be called "The Pipes"
-"Welcome to the headquarters of the resistance"
-Greek themed futuristic civilization.

[Snarfevs]

Megascale land engineering project (Although that may belong in industrial design)

[auden100]

Nuclear Train Station
Emporeress' Bedchamber
Gates of the Lost City
Hippo Festival
Ruined Church/Cathedral/Temple
Doorway to a Parallel Dimension

[Olof]

Wishing Well

Was going to do a challenge for practicing enviro, but I might as well post it as an idea.

.hugs

[SombreSun]

hi guys
well this is my first post in this forum, but I've been following your work for quite a while. so I thought, why not intoduce myself with a suggestion. maybe you like it :P

it's like a bit more "actual" than all those scifi-fantasy things ;)

Anarchy in Paris, after several weeks of near-civil-war condition in the capital of France, the police-forces finaly had to retreat. Now the president has announced that "military-troops will reenforce the police of Paris to regain controle over the devastated city" and reinstall law and order.

I thought with your skills this should look all fantastic:yayca: ;)

[fishw]

for something a bit different:
reinterpretations of one of Piranesi's imagined prison engravings (http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/prints/piranesi/index3.html).

[Eytan]

A bridge city

[auden100]

Quick Sketch - like from Revenge of the Sith?

more ideas:
The Engine Room
Grandpa's House
The Old Attic

[Waho]

A Bridge City sounds good, but how about a village in forest, a tree village? I mean like houses high on the trees and so on, after all it's your own choise. I have seen those first time when I was a child and I played a game named Donkey Kong Country, I thought those villages were cool and I have always wanted to paint or draw a picture of village like that.

and sorry about bad english

[cp_manat]

african igloo

[Thoras]

What bout the disembarkment of Normandia? (Forgive my lousy english; If you've seen "Saving private Ryan" it's the first scene).

[xoet]

a rug as seen from a flea's perspective
still life after looking at sun for too long
melted cheese sandwich with mold and such just very big
a landscape of tumors and cancers that have been removed
fly's perspective of still water with one ripple
space bird flying into black hole
supernova from the inside out

[chaosrocks]

" death trap of Drama"

vague and exciting at the same time

chaos rocks

[Savatage]

How abooout...

A dark place, built with ancient bricks and tiles. It was once a good city, until the forces of evil were banished there, and constructed their own devilish variations on the bricks. The only source of light and warmth is from the shrouded sun and ancient subterannean furnaces.

Or, to put it more simply: an ancient, evil city in ruins but is still inhabited by the damned

[chaosrocks]

just to keep us all humble

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e181/chaosrocks/ATT00082.jpg

its a photograph
Ma Nature is the EOW champion!
chaos

[dragon4lunch]

chaosrocks did you or someone crank up the saturation? It's an amazing picture never the less (oh, is the one word?). It almost looks like someone spilled chemicals on the site!

Waho hey, I played that game on my Super Nintendo back in the day... in 1996 I think... oh man, time goes by. Tree village sounds good - but maybe we should make it more general so more people will be into it. "A LOFTY CITY", howabout that!

[dragon4lunch]

Eshara I like your ideas too! Plenty of good stuff! By the way, I should by now be level 2, what's up with this? I have 42 posts!!! I bet 50 is probably the magic number...

[carotello]

Atlantis' Pyramid
Lighthouse
Hell or Heaven
Sherlock Holmes' flat
Pigsty
The Opera House
City Hall

[PsychoVoodoo]

The land that's upside-down, but people still live rightside-up. Just imagine.

[Jimpan89]

what aboute a underwater entrance made of a giant fish head.

[Thaelys]

A hazardous waste dump for an arcane artificing industry in a techo-fantasy setting

A space-borne multi-species insect hive, a la Bruce Sterling

A decomissioned naval carrier used as a floating refugee city by pacific islanders that were displaced from flooding due to global warming

Dante's Inferno re-interpreted as a Jovian gas giant atmosphere

The interior of an Area 51 hangar - this time it's not a hoax...

An eco-friendly futuristic underwater settlement built from genetically engineered structural super coral

The Massive Black Studio re-interpreted as a Leonardo da Vinci style workshop

A fantastic floating sky palace made of nothing more than enchanted textiles - employing the same technology used to keep magic carpets aloft.

A ground to low earth orbit elevator port - in orbit of course

The Playboy Mansion gets swallo'ed up by a dimensional rift ... it ends up in a very strange place

A bog-like oasis in the middle of an endless salt flat

A small efficiency style appartment with a bunch of appliances that pop out of the walls - in a Victorian Science Fiction/Steampunk theme

need more?

Pfff...almost forgot the obvious....The Great Library...duh

[chaosrocks]

nope..its a straight shot totally un manipulated....

Topic
Indoor Waterfall (tribute to Foz)

chaos

[arttorney]

Kubla Khan's Stately Pleasure Dome

[xoet]

"Freedom and power bring responsibility." Jawaharlal Nehru from, A Tryst With Destiny

[bw77]

..can be imagined or based on reality.. whatever direction really.
Idea primer's:

Shinjuku of the future (hi-tech japanese business/retail district)
current district layout- http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e3011.html

Atlantis, cliched as hell but why not

Dante's inferno- classical? Or future?

Medieval Abbey

Circus of Horrors

Submarine interior

Forge- take that as you will

Ancient Tibetan monestary


How's that?

[Pound]

Borrowers City (Borrowers relating to small people, living in a big peoples world)

Cheap Low Tech Movie set

[OctoStash]

perhaps like a futuristic womens basketball arena.

[chaosrocks]

perhaps a Kind admin to fill in and move this along while Mr Rook is Busy moving?

Chaosrocks

[Crane]

DIamond city
hell frozen over
Garden of eden
Deep space mall

Earths core
Land of mosters, HUGE monsters
I am really sucking with ideas today

Alien music shop
Massive black in 2050 haha
merpeople/human trading post
Insominac City
The city the secret of the bemuda triangle is protecting.
technonature society
Human city after total technological maturity.
Aliens in eygpt
When the 30th century visited the 1st.
Alien slaughterhouse
alien automated milking device..machine/factory.

[chaosrocks]

alien music shop..that wd be fun!
chaos

[ArtZealot]

Futuristic Venice.

[Moai]

alien music shop..that wd be fun!
chaos

That would be fun. I've drawn a few strange musical instruments in my day.

My suggestion: The Edge of the World
Not the end, the Edge. Where the land stops and chaos or nothingness begins.

[Gaius]

Urban Riot

I reckon would be cool.

[MarkDN]

- Prehiostoric metropolis discovered in jungle ravine
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- Deep in Uranus' interior, in the see of water, methane and ammonia; life.
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- Oasis on Enceladus, moon of Saturn
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- Fish eyes The Great Flood

[gethsemane]

The Pirate Moonbase. In the future, interstellar war has distracted space military enough to allow piracy to thrive along the long and dangerous trade route between stars. All the merchants can do is arm up and cross their fingers. The pirates, meanwhile, are living large: they even have their own base on a distant moon, full of all those wonderful things that make reckless lawbreaking pirates into reckless lawbreaking pirates.

The City in the Shallows. The sea people of the western shores build their cities in the shallows, on the edges of the continental shelf. This gives them plenty of space to build their water-filled streets and homes and towers below water, and the opportunity to build above water as well, for the many air-breathing emigrants to the great city.

The Alien Graveyard. It was really quite spectacular and unexpected. Suffice to say, these aliens did not bury their dead beneath the ground.

The Happy Town. It was an ideal place -they made sure of that. It always had beautiful weather and no crime or homelessness and jobs aplenty and room for all and yes, all this perfection came with a price, a horrible price they saw every day, everywhere they went, because it hung over the town like a storm cloud, but wasn't it worth it? Wasn't any price worth it?

The Plague District. When the plague descended upon the city an eon ago, it was a disaster. Now it is a hushed undercurrent. It is still there, yes, still prevalent among the residents, but anyone who shows signs is immediately swept up by the Viral Patrols and locked forever behind the heavy, enforced walls of the Plague District. Inside dwells the stuff of nightmares.

The Submarine Port. On this oceanic planet, without any land beyond small atolls and smaller sandbars, steampunk technology rules- and vast, intricate submarines ply the waters like minor gods. They are transports, weapons, homes. They are cities, some of them: vast mobile communities. This great port is where they come to meet, rest, and refit.

The Urban Jungle. This city, with its glorious high-rises and grand avenues, was abandonded to the elements long ago. Now nature has taken back over, making the ghost metropolis over into a verdent jungle of cracked asphalt and old steel and fauna and flora beyond imagining.

[dragon4lunch]

Art Kitty way back in October wrote a good one: deep space prison

Man, I wish we could have a vote on the next topic, and as soon as the deadline is there, the next round starts right away with the current highest voted topic!

[Snarfevs]

Extradimensional hermitage

[Lohan]

I think we should do some eows that are more specific. what I mean is the type of concept art used in strategy games like wc3, for example, for buildings. so it might be like "gnomish gunpowder workshop", "dragon breeding nest", "oil refinery", "fortified bunker", etc. know what I mean? there are a lot of good examples of that type on feng zhu's site, for the work he did for the lotr strategy game and some others.

[synthburn]

this should be one of those eow's that get tons of entries and most of them badass





"City Built Around An Ancient Spatial Anomaly"

[arttorney]

Alpine Fortress

Peninsular resort

[xoet]

the hidden realities between dimensions

love and sex alien style

the puss that drips out of an open wound (just magnified)

a kitten getting eating by the mother cat. (I have seen this but did not get to shot the photo of it, ah well)

a happy fungus devouring itself

oh and something from a song I heard today -- a cockroach eating a city

now there is a concept alien bugs fighting for "last bug alive"

[Moai]

-The Hive
-Sculpture Garden
-Parade Route
-Living Cave
-Crystal Palace

[arttorney]

"alien bugs fighting for "last bug alive"

Are we talking "Insect Battle" here? 'Cause if so, I think it's been done.

[stalsby]

TOPIC SUGGESTIONS I think we need to get a little more wild!

1. Armagedon

2. The Final Frontier

3. The Golden Hour

4. River odyssey

5. Underground cyborg bat cave

6. Stairway to Heaven

7. Alice in wonderland (on crack)

8. Down in a hole

9. The white room with black curtains (compliments of clapton)

10. Ambient medieval hallway

[Jabo]

The perfect workplace

[Moai]

-Rune-rock ruins
-Floating island
-Boneyard
-Ancient crypt
-Maze-like city
-Crater

[Stephan_R]

I'm fanboying this thread like the CHOW... how about a Legend of Zelda environment (temple?) to celebrate the release of Twilight Princess?

[Matsign]

That would be fun, Stephan.

Heres some:

Fairy Town.
Sacred Burial Ground
Junkyard.
Fingernail Universe.
Fortress in the Trees..

[dragon4lunch]

Hey, why haven't we had an EOW for so long??? Hello?

[Main Loop]

Iron Nursery
Sapphire Forest
Gaia's Crown
Hanging Labyrinth
Meeting of Thousand Paths
Hollow Planet

[dbensen]

Here's one:
Alternate history Japanese Cathedral, built in Edo in 1612 to celebrate the end of the Age of Warring States and the dawn of the Holy Shogunate.

[chaosrocks]

hey I just noticed the winners thread hasn't been updated since #9 I'll try to get to that It may take a while. but just strolling through it thers some amazing stuff in here!


chaos

[Pistol]

Lost Paradise

[sunspot]

abandoned tribal village
a hermits home

[life on the sofa]

the centre of all joys ( a realy realy happy place which is where all joy eminates from)

the centre of all evil( oposite of above)

evoloutonary screw up: since time began the world hase evolved and changed but in this one place everything is all wrong, things are not as they should be.....(open to interpretation)

[Trashy]

chaosrocks- Good call on updating the winner’s thread. It will take time but couple of days back I was looking at all the other winners. 9 out of only 45 rounds...yikes...that’s a lot of rounds missing. Umm...if it's not much to ask maybe every round also put in that image that started in everything beginning of a new thread. This one- http://www.conceptart.org/forums/images/EOW.jpg

Keep up the great work chaosrocks. Your doing a fine job I think! I’ll try to stick around for every round now. Maybe I'll help in hunting down more environment artists in my spare time too and get them over here.

Okay, here are some ideas to think about maybe.

Floating city
Tree Village
Deep-sea canyon
Destroyed city
Road less traveled
Lava River
Abandoned missile silo
Living and breathing environment
Futuristic Supreme Court building
Grassy Knoll
The tallest mountain
Spirit domain
Military ambush point
Battlefield
Opera house
Hall of gods
Sewage tunnels
Barrier wall-"think great wall of China"
Valley of the dead
Seaside harbor
Twisted passageway
The abyss
Frozen village
A bridge to far
Murky swamplands

[Longxiang]

- The Land of Dairy Queen (chocolate and candy landscape)

- 20th century ruins (Think 12 monkeys. What the ruins of Seattle will look like in 3007) I really want to do this one.

- Mineshaft Gap (post-apocalyptic underground complex)

Also some non-human cityscapes. Cities for bees, amphibians, birds, bats, rabbits, etc.

[Delmar]

Hey there

- The source of life

- My neighbours freaking backyard

- parkway of the golden district

- Last flower on earth

- house of the evil monkey (everything except the closet of chris, if you catch my drift ;))

[AtlasIves]

ok im thinking

underwater salt mine
underwater forest (reclaimed by the sea)
the recage of a starship inhabited by freaks
uhh... a really big shoe!!!!?.. yeh im out of ideas...

[Dragonmati]

Well hello, I think i have a few ideas:

Arctic/Antarctic Fortress
Arctic/Antarctic Ruins
Alien Amazon
Futuristic Arcade
Alien Party

[Trashy]

Alright... I am pushing for Delmar's topic suggestion on My neighbours freaking backyard. That would be a blast to do!

Other ideas...um

Pipe canyon
Futuristic Tokyo
Drag race street
The maze
Fallout shelter
Robotic Junkyard

[Channin]

" The Hidden World "
yes...vague

[click18]

yeah well my first post comin up. thought id kick it off with a suggestion
what bout the dark not talking about just a black page i mean the things that are in the dark that you cant see but imagine are there kinda the world thats was born in no light.
also i go inside a mirror
and finally the world inside fire
well there we go

[reaxion]

Bladerunner Homage
Be Like Sparth ... artists adapt to a specific artists style, using Sparth becuase of his unique style.

not actual settings/locations, but use your imagination-juice.

peace
reax

[Jonas Heirwegh]

Bladerunner setting sounds cool. I vote for bladerunner...

[amer-nazri]

Tropical inter-galactic race course.

[AtlasIves]

ok this thought just popped into my head and thought i had to suggest it "the most feared place in the universe"

[BEAR JR]

I like bw77's'Circus of Horrors'.

How about a floating marketplace, a la ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia? a bustling place filled with strange people and creatures, with shops, wares, even a holy place or central square or giant fruit tree in the center?

[Doc Solomon]

The Lost World
Monster Disco Hell
Beyond the Black Hole
Floating Pirate Village

[Nismo]

NANOBOT DISSEMENATION FACILITY

Ok, its 2349 AD, technology has advanced sufficiently that small scale machines, called nanobots, have been developed that can perform a wide variety of tasks, from street cleaning to reparing burst capilliary blood vessels. These bots are typically tiny (definately invisible to the naked eye) but in some cases they can join together to form larger nanobot colonies to perform larger tasks.

Anyhow, nanobots are big business. All of the mega-corporations are involved in nanobot design, manufacture and upkeep. However, one aspect of the nanobot system is how to provide the customers with their bots?

Although in some cases, (for example military-spec assassination and counter terrorist/espionage bots) specialised facilities are required, in general, nanobots are released in their billions from dissemenation facilities.

These facilities pour the nanobots into the atmoshpere, in such a way and over such a time scale that the different types of bots are homogenised so that, in any cubic metre of air, there are all the different types of bots required. The bots are light enough that the force of gravity is far outweighed by the thermal and breeze currents in the air, and so the bots remain airborne.

Customers pay a subscription fee to whatever service they require (for example, a 'fresh breath' service will ensure that a regular supply of nanobots will be servicing the customers teeth at any particular moment). The bots recognize which service the customers have paid for, via microscopic transponders implanted in the customer.

The environment to be designed in this case is one of the dissemenation facilities. These buildings are designed to pump out the nanobots into the surrounding atmosphere. Some nanobot dissementation facilities (NDF) are owned by the factories which produce the nanobots, although this is usually only the case with the largest corporations. Some NDFs rely on many small sized dissemenators spread over a wide area, whereas others simply have one enourmous dissemenator (sometimes reaching many kilometers in height).

Remember, these facilities are designed to release the nanobots as efficiently as possible over a wide area. They also usually feature a collector, which gatheres in nanobots for mainenance, upgrades, or retirement/recycling.

Sorry I went on a bit too much... wanted to provide some background....

[click18]

muuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa hhhhhhhhhhaaaaaaaaa

a colony inside the centre of earth. molten lavery place shizzle

[infinitemonkey]

• Wreckage from massive spaceship, overgrown by jungle.
• Airborne weather control station (exterior).
• Floating playhouse. On the sea or in the air, your call.
• Arcology. (See here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology).)
• Techno-organic apartment.
• Body modification chamber.
• Domed asteroid world. No artificial gravity!
• Inhabited desert cave.
• Narrow market street in future city.
• Undiscovered hatch from Lost (interior). Keep to the late-60s/70s look!
• Graveyard for holograms.
• Alien archeological dig site.
• Azteco-Buddhist temple.
• Monolith towering over modern harbour.

[Bijutsu-san]

'The Grand Library' - Interior

A massive, massive library belonging to some ancient, long-dead race of large humanoids. The library is a tall cylinder-shape, with a large machine suspended in the middle. The machine has appendages to select books and bring them to the 'cockpit' where they can be read.

[Drungarios]

One thing I've always wanted to see is an airship harbor. I have trouble deciding exactly what it would look like. A forest of mooring masts? A series of rooftop platforms? an immense landing field? An airborn city itself? There's a lot of possibilities.

[Dargoe]

Hell's Outhouse: (not literal) a region or landmark locals have dubbed "Hell's Outhouse"

The Other Side if the Fence: a clear speration is a land scape seperates one region from a vastly better region.

Graveyard of the Titans

Land of the Squid-Men

R'lyeh: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh

[Dargoe]

A Modern Atlantis: a modern city (real or imagined) sinking beneath the waves, like mythic Atlantis. this could be as it sinks, shortly after or many years after when the sunken city is in ruins or being reclaimed. but the city itself should be as you'd see today, even if you have futuristic tech mixed in with reclaiming the sunken city.

[Norsehound]

The view from a world that exists on the inside of a sphere

[robmorfin]

A space station dairy/meat processing plant.

[robmorfin]

An underwater airport (access it by flying only).

[robmorfin]

-Laser cutters main hall trap.

-Space lighthouse.

-Mars Iceberg channel.

[ATAnderson]

A few EOW's a go there was one called Tunnel City, These were my orignal thoughts on the matter, but I couldn't emphasis the tunnel theme enough. I have thought about it on and off ever since but never put pen to paper. I thought I would post it here.

The ancient wreckage of a giant airship or spacecraft half buried in the gorund of a harsh winter planet. The inside of it was collonised by the survivors an is now a makeshift metropolis. Many years later the survivors are the inhabitants of the planet, making there way & thriving in what ever way they can. They have made use of the indigenous species of the planet useing some for transport, beasts of burden and others for food.

1. show the undesireable conditions of the planet
2. give an impression of the scale of the original craft
3. show the use of the indigenous creatures

4. Avoid as much as possible making it look like Hoth!
(the real challenge)

ATA

[Omeggion]

-The birthplace of a demonic god
-An island in the sky

[grenogs]

Inside the gates of Valhalla

Island prison for tellitubbies

Mayan temple in the lost candy jungle

Cheese valley

Alien rodent grave yard

[grenogs]

Neros ship yard

[robmorfin]

House made out of Beetles and marshmallows.

[Manuel_Calavera]

"Old church in forgotten graveyard"

Somebody make new topic or I’ll do it ;)

[Lege1]

Field of tornadoes or tornado.

[Manuel_Calavera]

Necromancer's laboratory.

[robmorfin]

"Old church in forgotten graveyard"

Somebody make new topic or I’ll do it ;)

Go for it Manuel!

[Manuel_Calavera]

Good, but which topic should I pick? Looks easy but it isn't :) I don't want to end it like this miniature city story and most of all I don't want my butt being kicked when Chaos will back on scene ;)

[robmorfin]

Manuel, Purplesrose also wants to help, see this post:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1415369&postcount=28

[darthnader]

ruined empire
(the remains of a once great empire)

waterfall city
(city in the middle of a waterfall or floating just off of the edge)

cathedral in the clouds
(cathedral on top of a mountain, inhabitants worship the sky)

walking tower
(a tower that can walk to new locations on spider like legs)

twisted spire
(black, twisted, cruel looking spike)

shattered crown tower
(tower made of, or on top of, long stone shards)

[Grim Reaper]

Grenogs- I like that prison island for tellitubbies:)

[ab4185]

"Crystal base beacon tower"

[chaosrocks]

ah I wish when you started looking at new topics that you would flip through the list of old ones. the waterfall city has been done...and beautitfully too.
most of these suggestionas are pretty generic.

I try to avoid scenes as in "apocalyotuc battle over fairytale castle" although that would be kinda fun now that I think of it. I have been trying to choose topics that fit into one of two catagories..
1. settings for action to take place. like a stage set...
2. actual scenes from existing stories.

so dear Darthnadar--- please do some research... see what's been done and see what's been suggested...

[jagehtso]

-Doctor Looove's Hospital

-El Dorado

-Monolith Forest

-The Three Witches' Fireplace

I know that these are pretty generic as well.
But I'd like to do one of them none the less, so please don't bite me.

[Manuel_Calavera]

Island of absurd

City of paranoid smokers

Land of love

[Ninjamuffin]

'Burial Chamber of a Super-Genius'
'Idea Recycling Center'
'Geyser River Valley'
Eh, Just some ideas.

[chaosrocks]

hehehe...it has figured out that I bite.....
chaos

[alti]

candy glass house in the deep dark forrest.

poison refinery in the invasion fleet ship.

motherworld is hungry. - herd the masses.

some i'd like to see.
-alti

[timothee]

How about... Secret Pirate Cove. It's basically an island cove that is hidden from ships passing by. Pirates use this cove as a safe haven from any warships looking to capture bucaneers. It also serves as a place to scrape off barnacles from underside of ships, without being seen by passing ships that might take advantage of their immobility.

[alti]

- barbarian hoard camp

- warcheifs battlefield study room

- barbarian winter encampment

- undead bridge (crossroads into darklands)

cheers
-alti

[grenogs]

river stix
ocean with a zebra crossing in it
flaming meatball canyon
edens valley
the trenches, ( any war, real or make believe)
a farm that has no oxygen
willy wonkers burger city

[Nalot]

A river in the clouds...

[brunopicinini]

Women's restroom (there must be a reason why women always go together).


I mean it, really. Once, me and some friends were discussing about women bathroom since women alwyas go together.
So, we've made some possible scenarios:
- They have a pool table inside
- They have a ping-pong table inside
- They have a plastation
- They have a pool table, a ping-pong table and a playstation inside

I dunno, maybe we can find some good designs hehe.
Just an idea anyway.

Best regars,
Bruno.

[Manuel_Calavera]

Women's bathroom (there must be a reason why women always go together to it)



That's it! Simple ideas are sometimes the best. I have some other explanations why they always gather in groups while going to restroom but better keep them to myself ;)

[LORD M]

After the battle.

Dead bodies lies on the battlefield all over, scavengers searches for values on the dead and dying while animals feed on the corpses.

[chaosrocks]

After the battle was the topic a while back, and besides thats really a scene not an d environment...
when you make a topic suggestion please look back through the past topics to see if it has been done... many of them have... Thanks
c

[qbertp]

The space hotel.
Inside the Ark.
The top of the world.
The Darkest place on earth.
What lies beyond.
Burning Man.
The hard streets.

[Vulgar`]

The Incubation Fields
The Lost Boy's Guide to Neverland

More soon.

[LORD M]

Fires at midnight.
- Dancers chanting while they dance around a bonfire, trying to call forth a God, in some kind of holy or unholy ceremonial place.



After the battle was the topic a while back, and besides thats really a scene not an d environment...
when you make a topic suggestion please look back through the past topics to see if it has been done... many of them have... Thanks
c

Sorry, I didn't know you could do that. :P

[Coleb]

The White City
The Hall of the High Tribunal
The Elysian Fields
Hanging Gardens of Babylon
The Hunchback´s Bell Tower
Jack the Ripper´s Alley
A Gypsy Camp
The Public Baths
A Mountain Monastery
The Fountain of Youth
The Imperial Mausoleum
The Ancestral Manor

Sorry if any of these are repeats.

[Corrick]

This isn't necessarily a specific topic but it was something that's been rattling around in my head for a while... I'm sure it's been brought up or even attempted before...

As concept artists, we have to remember that the environments we create may one day be turned into an actual 3D environment. We have to be mindful of why the environment exists, who built it and why, how it works, entrances and exits and potential benefits/hazards. If it's not man made, then what created it, or how will someone interact with the environment if they happen across it?

As we complete the EOW challenges, I've noticed that we come up with a lot of amazing images, which is awesome, but not a lot of actual designed environments. I propose for one round that we not only submit a fully rendered image of the environment, but also plans of the complete environment, illustrating the ins and outs of its design and purpose. This would include bird's-eye-views, elevations, architectural details/motifs and (in the case of game level design) danger areas, traps and hazards and entrance/escape routes (navigation).

Could be cool... it would definitely take some time, but it'd also be a learning experience for everyone.

[jread]

- the ancient gallery
- the forgotten library
- the forgotten city
- the frozen desert

...just popped into my head whilst driving home :)

[sinyorpicante]

the steampunk planet or
" " city

[Big Orange]

WWII-style Command Complex: A sprawling Napolionic era fortress in South Africa, but modernized by the Dominate of the Drakia with cutting edge 1930s and 40s technology - concrete bunkers dug into the fortress' bedrock, giant radio masts and air field installed within a adjacent chainlink compound, the fortress itself has modern naval guns intalled within it's angular, low set walled keeps. Grey pillboxes line the outer wall, dragon's teeth embed the dry moats, powder houses are serving as modern armouries, Hond tanks trundle around the sandy parade grounds, WarDir officers man the guard blocks, and light Janissary armour patrol the roadways...

Bond Villain Lairs:

* A warehouse, dock yards or office block with a sprawling secret complex built beneath it.

* A small island bought out by a villain's corporation and turned into a elaborate DHARMA/Crab Key style complex, with monorail system installed for transport.

* A flooded volcano crater with a helipad rising out of the lake basin, with the rising helipad's bridge joining up with the tunnel entrance leading into high-tech complex built into the crust of the volcano crater's wall.

* A derelict church refurbished into a villain's high-tech safehouse.

* A mountaintop restort or mansion, with the requisite villain's complex bored into the mountain the legitimate villain's front establishment is built on.

* Alpine castle refurbished into villain's compound.

* Ditto for Edo era Japanese castle, with requisite suicide garden, and monorail system.

Idiran Warship: The interior of a Idiran warship that took part in the Culture-Idiran war - medjel barracks, main corridors, command bridge, effector ports, core chamber for enslaved AI system, Idiran brigs, non-Idiran slave blocks, central shrine, docking bays, private Idiran quaters, and communal Idiran quarters.

Orbital Community: A Culture village or town located on the residential plate of a typical Culture Orbital.

Homonda Residency: A partially submerged complex with triangle/pyramidal architecture.

What do you think of my ideas?

[revenebo]

I haven't read previous posts, hope I don't repeat someone else's ideas...

- The watchtower
- Mad Scientist's Laboratory (a classic...)
- Cyborg Battle Arena
- Morgoth's throne room
- Vulcan's forge
- Cityscape of a world (ours) without water nor oil...

[Shrew11]

The Ideas:

1. Hidden Sci-Fi Cityscape dwelling within a Dark Jungle
2. The Ancient Throne Room of Lucifer
3. Bermuda's Hidden Island: Here, lies the answers.
4. The Forbidden "Necromancer's Cemetary"
5. Ruins of an ancient civilization deep within a forest of mystery.
6. The Master Suite at Area 51
7. The Molevalent Palace of Medusa
8. Mother Nature's Favorite Vacation Destination
9. Heaven, Earth, and Hell at: negative 300% Zoom...haha
10. Undiscovered Yetti Fortress hidden deep in Antarctica
11. Remains of a Jungle after an Era of Biohazardous Waste Dumping
12. A Welcoming Forest of the Gods
13. The Dark Meadow of Decaying Life
14. Modified Treehouse by Little Boy Prodigy
15. Drowned Temple in a Jungle's Cave

...There are some of my ideas right off the top of my head.
Unfortunately, there are like 5+ pages so I doubt any of these
will be chosen, or even glanced upon. It's late though (3:30AM)
I gots ta' get to bed now. Hope my ideas help out a bit.
:)

[Hideyoshi]

I have the feeling that the current topics try too hard to come up with something overly creative, while actually, they don't attract that many people to participate. I'd rather choose a topic that doesn't force you too much into a certain direction and leave more room for individual interpretations. I am also missing some strong 'conceptart' vibe lately...

Ground Zero
The pagoda
Field of dreams
Arena
Foreboding Corridor(s)
The stairway
Apocalyptic wasteland
At the waterfalls
Highway

[grenogs]

an ants perspective
the tree
down down, deeper and down
almost to the top
where does jack frost life
a valley only fit for a mouse king
2001
the monolith
its a dogs world

[chaosrocks]

as it turns out
the hard part is coming up with somehting that hasnt been done before. And..

Hideyoshi
I have no idea what you mean by "conceptart vibe" I would think that "concept art" would be the topics with specific briefs which are apparently too difficult for people to come up with creative solutions for. The big generic topics draw the biggest crowd but are the least "concept art" realated. if you were working to make concept art I assume the brief would be specific
as In "I need a mediaval village in day light with four cottages on the left and a well in the the center of a village green"

I try to mix things up so that people can either flex their mental muscles and try new things or something that fits their niche will roll around every couple weeks.

I can't please all the people all the time. In fact I can't please some of the people any of the time apparently. tell you what
PM me. you can pick the next topic. The only caveat being that if you pick the topic. you are honor bound to participate.

[Vulgar`]

"Ground Zero" is a cool idea for a topic. Maybe the EOW can follow the path that the Character of the Week took and have the winners choose the topic for the next rounds.

[Hideyoshi]

whoo, ok.
I didn't want to sound offensive if it appeared that way. I remember we had some mild dispute over the topics in EOW some time ago already...
What I meant with concept art vibe was simply referring to themes that revolve a tiny bit more around concept art as used in films or video games.
Something that is instantly recognizable as 'mainstream' concept art and evokes a strong sense for an environmental setting. It's a little difficult to explain what I mean... For example, looking at the current topic I don't see much relation to concept art. I wouldn't deny that concept art is strongly tied to sci-fi and fantasy because these genres always demand for thorough conceptual ideas and get the imaginative fluids running...
I would diagree on your statement about concept art always being combined with clear-cut descriptions. Shouldn't it be the concept artist who gives substance to an idea? I'd rather think of it in terms of giving personal conceptual finesse to a rather broad topic and interpreting it. Thus, more people would be attracted because there's more room for own development.
Sorry, if some of the above sounded rather gibberish/contradictory but I am a little tired...
I also don't want to discuss this any further, think of me whatever you want... :P
And no, I'd rather not choose the next topic, please go ahead and continue!
I will just try to participate more frequently again and face uncomfortable topics as a challenge! :)

[grenogs]

Is EOW actual purpose aimed towards concept art? I always got the impression it was similer to CHOW, basicly to create the best looking image from the given brief. Its sometimes the artists choice or in most cases its the specific brief given to whether its aimed towards concept art, illustration or any other art industry. So therefore I would have thought even the brief right now fits perfectly into EOW, as it is afterall an environment, only difference is this time, its not fantasy, it doesnt have dragons, space ships or any other gimicks to sell your image. Your basicly being asked to produce an environmental image to the best of your ability, which is no different than any other week.

[chaosrocks]

its ok Hideyoshi
I understand what you mean
although I think the current topic is great practice for game Environment, I see aloit of games with real world settings, GTO, COD (1-4) all the war games etc. for example. I ,personally think that learning to look at wahts around you will help to draw for these type games. yes theres a lot of SCIFi and Fantasy. And I will get back to that.

I like to believe that any idea Could go into a movie or Game
the sculpture garden could easily have cgone into something Like Pan's labyrinth. and of course the Douglas Adams is a movie. the catherdral of lilith could easily appear in a fantasy game of a rather dark nature... so. I think these topics are still game related. just those games or movies haven't been made yet.... which I do kinda think is the point. If you get a new game... you don;t want it to look just like every other fantasy game at least I wouldn't.
but anyway
I hope you do give it a try Hide.... and we're about due for a couple big generic topics any way

thanks for paying attention
and caring enough to say somethign

with greatest respect
chaosrocks

[Hideyoshi]

hey chaos, thanks for your understanding, appreciate it!
I am with you on this. I guess it was really just those 2 last topics that didn't get me hooked that much, so it's all fine. :)

[arttorney]

All right. Moving right along.

Rip van Winkle's bowling alley.
The House of Usher.
Boarding ramp for time travellers

[revenebo]

A note about how precise a brief for a concept should be:
Two months ago I had the luck to hear James Clyne speaking in a conference in Turin. Talking about his work for Minority Report he said he had to draw a view of the city with no description as reference. All the script said was "futuristic city in the background". So he had to invent it (and to draw several different proposals).
Sometimes things like "future city" or "medieval castle" sound as commonplaces but if we are requested to draw them we have no choice and we should come out with something original...
Then whatever topic Chaosrox chooses we must/should produce something.

Hideyoshi is a professional, he could tell us how briefs from clients usually are, vague or precise.

[Hideyoshi]

Concept Art and illustration briefs vary from client to client. It always depends on the type of project you're working on.
It's true that a lot of clients ask for your artistic eye and ideas. This is even more so, if the client approached you directly, asking you to work for him. They look at one's portfolio and know what kind of artworks you're most proficient with and generally, they give you quite a lot of artistic freedom then.
Just recently, I decided to go with my gut feeling on a concept that actually had a rough description and the client liked my turn on the subject.

On other gigs, you get a clear cut description as to what kind of elements should be in an illustration/concept, but in the end you still design everything out yourself.
At all times, you're in close contact with the client sending revised WIP shots back and forth asking for feedback.
Clients simply hire artists because they can't visualize concepts/illus themselves. Thus, they hire artists that match the needed general criteria for a job, give rough descriptions while still allowing your personal style to show through. They want your very personal artistic judgement and interpretation, because they chose you and not someone else. :)
Artistic freedom is some of the coolest things in the biz if you ask me!

(sorry, very off topic)

[Vulgar`]

As a suggestion, I've noticed that the topics have strayed away from the theme of nature, or nature-related environments - remember "Mushroom tunnel" or "Fungus Tunnel" from way back in the EOW? Those types of topics were forgotten or left unsuggested - it'd be interesting to bring them back for a round or two.

[Vulgar`]

- The Mythical Treasures of Monkey City (From the jungle book)
- The Trenches (An already made suggestion)
- Shelter from the Plague
- Paradise Lost
- And the Robots Marched
- 10,000 B.C. (An art prelude to the movie?)

[reaxion]

Blade Runner Homage, ive suggested before, still think the turnout would be insane, and I would personally love to see all that neon : )

!peace!

[manpondering]

Realm of the Glass People

[Migsta]

Fantasy Market Square....I like the Blade Runner idea too!

[Sjouke]

Fortress of the Forest People.
"Unmeasurable Heights".
Industrial Revolution Iron Mine.

[Brandon_Herring]

*Sjouke, I owe you credit for the inspiration on the first one :wink:

- Underwater Mining Colony
- The Abandoned City
- Satan's Vacation Home

Sorry if any of those were already suggested. I didn't take the time to look through all the previous pages. But I figured since a lot of the recent EOWs have involved water, doing an environment IN/UNDER water would be a nice twist

[chaosrocks]

that is pretty cool
thinking

[jfwalls]

Lost Underwater City
Haunted School House
Abandoned Missile Complex
Mountain Top Fortress
Subterranean Cathedral

[newmanhyde]

European countryside
city night
Courtyard
malayan village
Elysium
city square

[ZebraHDH]

I'm still waiting to find a topic on Eow I can get into, but I'm not quite there yet. Here are some suggestion anyway:

Land of Chocolates (Candyland)
Planet Auction
Holographic Suburb
Medieval NYC
Circus

[Earendil]

Deep Sea Trench
Deep Asteroid Trench
Moonscape
Europa Ice Field
Jupiter Cloudscape

One more vote for Elysium

Gaia's Land
The Glittering Caves

[Lalilulelo]

"The Forge"

[chaosrocks]

im saving the undersea city stuff for later. but its definately on the list.
IM not ignorine you. hmmm heres my thinking the last one was so dark industrial and specific. the next one should be open vague and pastoral.
so...

[tsujni]

Sheol
An inner city restroom abandoned by God and man.
Wooden structures adrift in the skies above sun drenched fields.
Ancient Babylon
The Tower of Babel
An Buddhist Temple, 2543CE, Mars
An inverted Cathedral

[Vulgar`]

Realm of the Fallen Kings

[Lucky Munky]

I thought I'd throw a couple of ideas out there...

Vivisectionist's Lab
Alien Slave Market
Futuristic Palace of Justice
Arctic Military base
Robot Battle-drome
Temple of Chaos
Plague Hospital

:yayca:I salute you and your fine work.

[Mokken]

warm, confortable, quiet, peacefull resting place

[Kuroyue]

Hmm...

Edge of the world (if the world was flat)
City of Paper
A Hut on the Summit
Paradise/Oasis Gone Dry
Field of Growing Metal
Where the Spirits Avoid
Ringworld Tribute
Palace of Moths

[Vulgar`]

Paradise Lost
The Windmill of Frankenstein
The City Above the Floodgates Gave way

[Lucky Munky]

I was thinking, how about a ...

Metropolis homage. Urban Industrial Retro Futurist Distopia.

Black and White or Sepia challenge, perhaps? Or a Buck Rogers Enviro, even?

[revenebo]

Environment Of The Week-end!!!!

[Gaschler]

The end of the sea, of celtic tales...
Orc war camp

[paberu]

Sorry if these have been suggested before, but here are some things I think we could benefit from:
- A double concept - mood piece of the subject/location, followed by a mock level shot design that takes place in the location. So the second concept would require the game camera to be used, and have more architectural/asset detail. Also indicate how a player moves through this environment.

[chaosrocks]

rayk
you are assuming that we are all aiming to be game designers , if we aren't already. but you see, some of us aren't. all Enviro does not =game. I for one don't have access to game cameras... well I do
but some might not.

and we do occassionally have people working in traditional methods
not to dismiss you idea. but as close as we might come to that is the mood piece/Map challenge we had a while back,

[paberu]

Ahh yeah, I guess you are right chaos. Just thought it might be a nice idea to mix things up, and give people an idea of what other stuff they might be doing at work (or give practice to those that are).

We could always have a matte painting requirement too :D

[Corrick]

Rayk's idea is one we've tossed around for a while. I'm sure if you go back through the pages of this thread you'd find dozens of posts of the same topic. The closest we've got to it was the Harbor something-or-other at the beginning of the year (paint a scene and draw a map detailing the layout). Not sure if it's ever been specifically for a "game design".

I'm with Chaos though, not everyone's going to be a game designer, but if you look at it another way, film, television and video games (and yes, even traditional art, for you purists) all have the same principles attached to building an environment. You still have to plan out what it looks like. Maybe every fifth or sixth round could be one of those hyper-detailed challenges where we have two or three objectives over a period of a couple of weeks, not just "paint a pretty picture" every time.

[doctorb]

how about
- home (what comes to mind when you think about home)
- a graveyard
- home town (landscape cityscape kinda thing)
- junglescape
- ocean (like more interesting like an oil rig style, or boats)
- Silent Hill tribute
- nebula (space)
- centre of the earth (what you see when you think about the centre of the earth)
- Crusade themed stuff, like arabic town, or medievil english thing

[Ottens]

Some ideas:
- "The City of Tomorrow"
- Dystopia / The World of 1984
- Sin City, or Gotham City
- A Soviet or Nazi moon base
- An underwater utopia
- A scene from the British Raj (India)

[chaosrocks]

patience grasshoppers
stay tuned

[Tyrus]

Hopefully none of these have already been done.

Valley of the Giants
Inside the Hollow Planet
Mountain of Cheese :P
Planetary Control Center
The Bowels of A Monster
The Rising Falls
The Frozen Dungeon

[bLux]

I don't know if any of these have been suggested, but... once more won't hurt :P

- Lord of the Rings-type moody landscape
- The beginning of the Earth, before most life forms existed, like just some sort of landscape with creative structures. It'd be cool to have 2 parts of it as well: 1 part before and 1 part of what it might look like now.
- Underwater base
- Colossal structure over an area. A ship, wall, base, etc.
- A city mixed of oldern-style buildings and sci-fi ones.

I think it'd be kind of fun to be given one stock image, and our job to come up with the best environment from it. The stock should be something completely random(chair, light structure, pile of junk, etc... just not a landscape) and full of color.

You know, I wanna paint this stuff now. :D

[RobotsofPortugal]

-The Edge of the Abyss
-In the Midst of a SuperStorm
-Standing in a Watchtower at the edge of a town peering out to the valley of the Unknown.
-An orbiting civilization, circling in close proximity around a Red Dwarf star.
(I saw on a show that those will be the last sources of energy when the universe dies)
-Zombie Nesting grounds
-Inside a Hallucination
-The Bog

[Sir Bret]

A planet - compressed gas-giant externally, with an interior space that is similar to Earth, yet more hilly, strange creatures and a beautiful tower where the pregnant woman Dajeil Gaelian lives; she can see the sky, but she has cameras that let her see the gas-giant, sky, land and water creatures. Maybe a two-part - paint the tower and its surroundings, and then the interior of the tower in her living space, which somehow displays all the different environments outside.

Confused? Read Excession, by Iain M. Banks.

[artiphats]

ok first time posting ideas here, let's see... how about:

village built to withstand an attack - attack from what? up to the artist to decide and create a story there.

ruins under the snow - ancient ruins in an antarctic type of region, or just in a winter? or something else?

town being torn apart by a tornado - nuff said

[chaosrocks]

coming up with some nice stuff here people.

hmmm

[Vulgar`]

The Black Isle of Capricorn
Battle Station Seven
The Trap Door Fell Down to Reveal...

[Ottens]

A 1930s/40s bar or lounge of Jazz cafe that could feature in a film noir. Think fedora hats, trench coats, babes in red, cigarettes, neon lights.

[Funkyskull]

"outside the box"

[fil_razorback]

The Butcher's Ballroom

[sinyorpicante]

-Steampunk bay
-Steampunk island
-Steampunk airport
-Steampunk underground (train system)
-Steampunk tavern
-Steampunk saloon

well.. anything steampunk realy hehe =D

[chaosrocks]

you know the current EOW is totally ripe for steampunking.. a la Jules verne surprised no one has taken it that way

[IanE]

The End of the Line
Deep Ocean Door
The Light House (think about it in terms not only related to the tower type near the sea)
The Great Barrier
The Fifth River

[Vulgar`]

Guest topic week?

[Mr_S_14]

Space Mine

Two Worlds and a Door

Magic World/City at the Peak of Industrial Age

another idea I had was,

Ideal Future or not so Ideal Future ; not too distant, maybe year 2100 a.d.

Could make it more exciting by making it New Years eve 2100 I think it's year of the monkey if anyone was wondering. Thoughts to ponder would be how do people get around in the future, what's changed ? has climate change been halted and earth is recovering, or has extinction and disease gone rampant ? population dwindle due to food and water how does this effect how people live in the future, is travel between relatives common from moon to earth, have space elevators been installed in every major city, does every large factory / company have it's own space elevator ? has sattelite use been so excessive that space travel from earth is dangerous or non plausible, how can this be shown in a single image. What contemporary technology has been abandoned or banned in the future ? do people get around using pipes like super mario ? could go anywhere.

[Vyse]

-Your Hometown 500 years later

-Magmar Mine

-Inside the Meteor

-Crashzone

-Place of Sacrifice

-Android Factory

-Building of a World-Dominating Corporation


...that´s it so far.

[Vyse]

-Your Hometown 500 years later

-Magmar Mine

-Inside the Meteor

-Crashzone

-Place of Sacrifice

-Android Factory

-Building of a World-Dominating Corporation


...that´s it so far.

[dark eagle]

Can i make my suggestion more based around description rather than a few words because most likely in the industry thats what you'd get<- apparently.

The people return to their war-screwed town hoping to find the survivors under the vast wreck of spangled metal and concrete who suffered the result of mistakes made by worthless people.

Mars. Once an hostile place, now and sprouting ground for war-mongers to produce weapons without the overlook of their superiors

Space colonies.

Moon and earth meet in new-york. What happens next?

[crumpy]

Millitary space ship control room/command centre/medical bay/engine room...ect

non-humanoid alien species millitary base (really push the non-humanoid part)

united space nations confrance hall

epicly huge alien beasts graveyard (similar to an elephant graveyard)

Haunted room

futuristic multi-lane highway

ancient alien races war machine ruins

doggy heaven (lol)

[Vulgar`]

Skytrain Complex

[Hideyoshi]

Ha, Vulgar, good one!

[Vulgar`]

I was going to add: The perfect topic for Hideyoshi.

[meltface]

cathedral ruins

snow mountain spaceport

desert planet outpost

enchanted forest

cave city

evil underground lair

less specific, more general

[chaosrocks]

I am currently in the market for a small icon to give EOW winners. I will be handled somewhat like CHOW. where putting your icon in your avatar is voluntary
but as the winners thread is being updated I really want more recognition for the people who do such amazing work.

so any of you who might be inspired to make an EOW icon..Im taking submissions

Also I m planning to start offering the winners the option of choosing the next topic. only choosing them myself in default. So if you really want controll over the topics? GET ttto work! hehehe

[S.C. Watson]

a redesign of affordable housing for the American midwest - specifically designed with extreme weather in mind (tornados, epic snowfall, flooding) - or along the same line, a redesign, but keeping the historical flavor, of affordable single family dwellings in New Orleans that are built with the ever increasing intensity of hurricanes in mind - for example flooding and high winds resistant.

[bartdeco]

Seedy Side of Robot City

(Abandoned ?) Train Station (Skytrain Station for Hideyoshi and Vulgar`)

A view from inside your favourite internal organ (human, alien, otherwise)

The Center of a Black Hole

Moai suggested: http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1080806&postcount=61
The Hive

City of Cliff Dwelling Bird People

midwestern zombie farm

[Hideyoshi]

I am currently in the market for a small icon to give EOW winners. I will be handled somewhat like CHOW. where putting your icon in your avatar is voluntary
but as the winners thread is being updated I really want more recognition for the people who do such amazing work.

so any of you who might be inspired to make an EOW icon..Im taking submissions

Also I m planning to start offering the winners the option of choosing the next topic. only choosing them myself in default. So if you really want controll over the topics? GET ttto work! hehehe

I am all game for that! Both ideas - topic choosing of winners and having a winner's icon. It will add extra spur for people to participate! :)

[Leon Roé]

"Silly Day On Mars" or "Intergalactic Love-nest"

[Funkyskull]

The username of the previous winner, free to interpret as an ervironment

[ALH]

The username of the previous winner, free to interpret as an ervironment

i like this idea, dunno if it would work with every name though.

How about your own house, as lived in by its future/past/alternate reality tenants?

[f1guremeout]

how about a series of topics, something to help my Third Earth sketchbook. Maybe reflect into the other weekly design challenges. :) Consider this:

1000 years into the future, far beyond technology and what we know as the vision of the future to a world as a endless landscape of buildings. The society is harmonious of art, science, and religion. In their technology, a fluid biomechanica hybrid of both cybornetic sentinence and a living, breathing organism.

However, after a apocolyptic asteroid event drives out 95% of the world's population to escape to the stars, leaving behind others to fend for themselves in the aftermath.

Time passes, almost 3000 years since the disaster.

The ones who left for the stars, The Journeymen (now, some hyper-advanced hybrid of fluid machine and bioorganism. More or less human a result of living in space and alien breeding with various advance humaniod alien cultures) return to Earth, after hundreds of years of searching for their vestigial home. Upon landing, they find the distant descendants of the survivors, a culture of technologically inclined primatives in a vast, lush jungle planet (Earth undergone a climate hyper-restoration from the greenhouse gases. The planet's landmasses are 80% covered in thick woodlands, wild jungles, or dark forests of immense trees of at least 100 feet. The animals have balloned in size, almost 100 fold their present sizes. Imagine a spotted salamander a 100 feet long!)

The primatives discover one Journeyman sent on a mission of discovery and peace. The Journeyman (for the story's purpose, I'll name Anuk.) is taken into the cultures of various clans around whats left of the world: North America's wastelands; the myst-shrouded ruins of Asia; etc...

He takes sketches in his digital log to take back interpretative accounts from the planet before he is to return to the stars.

So, yes, think a bit future anachronism: hover sailcraft, propelled by a thrust vector but steered by a animal hide sail (IDW idea?). Tribal clansmen herding immense reptiles and mammals to power huge convoys in the dense of the jungles (CDW / CHOW)...

Well i hope this starts some ideas...:D

[hippl5]

Unit 731 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_731)

[Mr_S_14]

"Volcanic Eruption near archeological site of ancient city recently uncovered by archeologists on another planet or moon in the Sol Solar System."

[Ipnorospo]

uhmm...

what about a city growing inside an organic being? like a para-city :D

[In Amber Clad]

Lambspoke Correctional Facility: Once the inmates had ruled this asylum, but now it is the domain of something far worse...

The Aftermath Of The Clockwork War

Victorian Space Fleet

[Vulgar`]

The Dragonrider Fort

[hippl5]

Too late for Halloween... but I'd REALLY like to see something based off of this audio (http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/183736).

[Vulgar`]

Coven of the Oracles
The Resting Place for Dead Horses
Black Hole, the Celestial Citadel
Underground Arabian Metropolis
Slave Camps in Monkey City
The Altar of Damascus, Year 7048

[Vulgar`]

And the time machine landed..

[tsujni]

Bifrost, the rainbow bridge of Norse legend connecting Asgard to Migard.

[Vulgar`]

Sanctuary of the Lord Orcs

[Ma- ma -Marcel]

From a Porcupine Tree music, "Blackest Eyes":

"I got wiring loose inside my head
I got books that I never ever read
I got secrets in my garden shed
I got a scar where all my urges bled
I got people underneath my bed
I got a place where all my dreams are dead"

So, it would be a Cemtery of Dreams, or something like that.

[ChristianWeeks]

Post-Apocolyptic Industrial Zone

[bLux]

Futuristic city in Egypt? Anyone thinking glass pyramids?

:D

[l33t fl33t]

An Aspidochelone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspidochelone)

[Nikola Marinkovic]

Valhalla - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla

[SAGIR]

Hairy city
Bald city
Inner sanctum
Tiniest skyscraper
Tribute to M.C.Escher

[chaosrocks]

nicola-- we've done valhalla actually it was #12 won by sketchling

[merl1n]

A new deathmatch (or whatever else game mod) arena for Unreal Tournament 3... http://www.beyondunreal.com/articles/titan-pack-screenshots/ or http://unrealtournament3.com/us/main.html

every entry shall fit the Unreal universe and it shall show the general idea of the map...

[ALH]

The slaughter hole
Our last hope
The world on the other side of the mirror
A childhood hideaway
The lost room
Inside the trojan 'horse'
A place where superheroes go to retire
The worlds worst theme park
The lair of an evil toymaker

[bLux]

A new deathmatch (or whatever else game mod) arena for Unreal Tournament 3... http://www.beyondunreal.com/articles/titan-pack-screenshots/ or http://unrealtournament3.com/us/main.html

every entry shall fit the Unreal universe and it shall show the general idea of the map...

I love the Unreal games and the Concept Art is amazing. I tried talking to John Wallin, one of the artists, and asked where he got his inspiration for the detailed "machinery-like" maps, but I didn't get a response. We should definitely do something like this. Maybe use a few more descriptions for it, like, "A new Unreal deathmatch map on fire in the sky" or something... ;)

[SHAP00PI]

'A Long Journey Ahead'

perhaps some eskimos on a hunt for food, with a great mountain scape in there distance, and their prey is on the other side, a lot of drama :)

[Nhur]

some ideas
armory storehouse from a castle
cliffs with some chinese/morroc/egyptian houses on it.
the treasure of the templars
miner village
terraforming of mars
zen garden
Musketers academy
postapocaliptic world
aircraft carriers and other ships
indian reservation

[GabeLucena]

I work in the oilfield and we have some very extraordinary environments out here. So here's one.. "Our final extraction:Earth's last remaining energy source"

There could be some really cool ideas with this one :)

[robmorfin]

I work in the oilfield and we have some very extraordinary environments out here.

Ey, Gabe, sounds very interesting, you should post some pictures of those environments.

[GabeLucena]

Ey, Gabe, sounds very interesting, you should post some pictures of those environments.

Yes robmorfin NO problem.. I'll look some up... the industrial designers will go MAD over this stuff. I see it everyday .. and night.. and even when I get sick of the work it still amazes me to be in the presence of it.

[GabeLucena]

Robmorfin... Here's some great examples of the equipment that's used to stimulate the natural gas wells (which is what I get to take part in.. I'm an electronic technician in the field)
This is an example of fracturing earth's rock formations to stimulate oil and gas.. for it to flow back up to the surface of the well.
If you take a look.. the well is at the top of the image and the trailers to the left and right are 2400hp engines that energize large plungers to pump water,sand, and various chemicals into the rock formations underground at around 5,000 g/min. Probably more than you want to know but it's pretty cool. The water is sucked from large water tanks or ponds and mixed with the additives from the unit aka a Blender. Which is at the bottom center of the image.
http://www.slb.com/images/services/resources/casestudies/dcs/powerstim_oman_01.jpg

some random photos
http://www.intl.sinopec.com/images/content/20080904180156312970.gif

http://www.swiftenergy.com/SFY/Swift-Energy/About-Swift/history/Graphics/HS80AB4.jpg

This shows the old methods and in the center is the newest method.. which is what allows for more productive wells
http://thegasgun.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/cutaway-72dpi.jpg

This is a coil tubing operation where they basically use a large tube with drills or other tools and sensors to clear the piping of the well to minimize restrictions for maximum flow of production.
http://www.epmag.com/resources/images/archives/TIGHTGAS-BJ-Fig%201.jpg

Here's an example where they dammed up around the jobsite to protect the environment around them from a possible chemical spill or well explosion etc.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2295/2059210124_8b2fce18ea.jpg?v=0

three wells being drilled
http://www.apachecorp.com/Resources/Upload/PrevArticleFiles/images/ootla_1.jpg

hope this does it for yah.. just keep in mind.. this happens in all kinds of terrains, weather.

[PixelFish]

+ The Dark Side of the Moon
+ Stairway to Heaven
+ The Hotel California

Also:

+ Castle Gormenghast - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast_(castle)
+ Kowloon Walled City - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City


Apologies if any of these have already been suggested or done.

[Cyberman]

library of Alexandria

Camelot

the Den of the forty thieves(Ali Baba and the forty thieves)

Solomon's Temple

the lost city of Dwarka (900,000 royal palaces all constructed with crystal and silver
and tediously decorated with huge emeralds the city was filled with birds and bee's flying about the parks and pleasure Gardens) Dwarka was said to be flooded, and they may have now found the ruins.

[LORD M]

Non-Euclidean Corpse City of R'lyeh. I believ this can be a challenge. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%27lyeh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Euclidean_geometry

[Cyberman]

The City of brass
http://www.bartleby.com/16/701.html

Lemuria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemuria_(continent)

[Jester3]

The Walls of Jericho

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Icelandic_Jericho.jpg

[reaxion]

Neon .

[idiot-monarch]

- Purgatory
- Atlantis
- Floating Island Archipelago
- Alien Cemetery
- The Bunker

[J.R.Hollis]

-Favorite Food, draw it rotten.
-What someone looks like on fire.
-Draw any object, not a face, being punched, kicked or broken.
-Draw your own propaganda war poster.
-Draw two giant monsters fighting over something really small.
-What your house would look like blown up.
-Think of 3 random adjectives, with an online word randomizer.

[MoonStruckDragonLass]

Azuza, I don't think very many of those count as environments.

I would personally like to see cities, or in the spirit of the CHOW, places from books as you'd imagine them. Like Hogwarts, or perhaps the City of Ember. Perhaps places from The Wheel of Time series. I'd be glad to compile descriptions myself! ;)

[chaosrocks]

nice suggestion , yes that last batch is really not Evironments but I will get back on the program asap
thanks for sticking around

[MoonStruckDragonLass]

Chaos! May I be so bold as to demand the topic of 'Twin Pyramids' be used? :D

Also, perhaps 'hanging gardens of Babylon'.

And it's good to see you back!

[chaosrocks]

you can demand anything you like...
probably won't do you any good though.
Im quirky that way

we've done other "twin " things
I do ather like the Hanging Gardens Idea, although I'll have to look back and see It sounds familiar.

[Φ]

'hanging gardens of Babylon'.


Id love to see that one.:D

other ideas:

- a near-future vision of your/ a random town

- lets assume all vegetation dies on earth, how would humankind maintain the "oxygen-production" -- giant greenhouses… etc.

[Revolver]

Hello all, thought I'd drop into EOW for a while and have something to do on my laptop in class other than play games. I have no artistic training and a passing interest in architecture, panorama and now environments I guess.

So, armed with gimp, a mouse, a good feeling and some like minded people my foray into environments begins!!

Thought a few more ideas to this list would be in order too.
-a sandbox, with matchbox cars and all. I saw the creation EOW and wanted to do that but missed out =(.
-the land of socks lost in the washer
-garden of eden/paradise/meadows of heaven
-somewhere over the rainbow/the pot of gold at the end
-you know you're lost/took the wrong turn when you see...
-finding the horizon
-valley of the singing stones
-all style and no taste [a bedroom/lounge/bathroom]
-room with a view?
-what's at the bottom of the wishing well? [lost socks?]
-life's a beach
-inside the dyson sphere
-Biodome
-the messiest kitchen this side of zz plural z alpha
-the sculptors graveyard
-the last road home
-command central/the bridge/HQ
-I Love a sunburnt country

[cl0aked]

Tropical terror. Something at the same time incredibly scary and incredibly beautiful.