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    DSG 1363: Creature/Tech • UNDERSEA LAB EXAMINES STRANGE, NEWLY DISCOVERED, MEGA-FAUNA

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    [ Somewhat connecting to the current run of creature/character/environment etc. of-the-week "DEEP:UnderWater Utopia" thing that's afoot, I'm gonna slant topics in that direction. ]

    [ Just to be clear, "Fauna" is a word that refers to animal life. ]

    [ ...And "Mega-Fauna" refers to large animal life. ]

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    Creature/Tech • UNDERSEA LAB EXAMINES STRANGE, NEWLY DISCOVERED, MEGA-FAUNA
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    a giant plant the grows overtop of underwater volcanos encasing the lava within the leaves and eventually turning it to stone, once petrified the stone shatters releasing millions of spores to drift the current to the next magma source it finds 40 min painter
    admittedly I miss read the brief as magma flora but decided to post it anyways with my original thought on the picture instead of changing the "plant" to a rooted creature. sorry
    Last edited by Noiram; May 20th, 2008 at 03:54 PM.

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    Noiram: interesting idea, but... it's "flora", not "fauna"...

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    here's my take on the theme...
    is it a pig? is it a dolphin? is it a dog? a cat? a veery ugly mermaid?
    You decide ^^,
    I made this with the gimp for a change, struggling to befriend the unfriendly interface, we're slowly starting to get along better, the open souce code enfant terrible and I. *bullshit bullshit*
    Ugh! I just noticed an ugly dark stripe in the right edge of the picture! just ignore it, okay?
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    Nice one arteater
    half life sprung to my mind when i saw it with those big fish things in black mesa

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    Nice topic.

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    about an hour and a half in painter


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    may go back and change the undersea lab??... ah well/...%$#

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    sweet colours Noiram
    just saw Psychostrat 's, beautiful, as usual, maybe the lab has too similar silhouette to the fish to read strongly against them? still dead pretty though

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    Thanks maths82, think your right about the silhouette... maybe it needs more edge shape silhouette.... However, yours is a MEGA MEGA MEGA-FAUNA "maths82" , liking the diver perspective with lab concept.

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    hmmm, i'm starting to get the quality of brushwork that i was going for.


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    I saw this thread earlier today and thought it would be cool to add to it. Here's what I came up with. The "lab" is absent but everything else is there.



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    Last edited by Rusty_01; May 21st, 2008 at 01:07 PM. Reason: IMAGE TAGS WEREN'T WORKING FOR SOME REASON.

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    Some cool takes. I particularly like phycostrat and maths82's. Nice use of colour.

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    Here's my entry. I spent little under an hour on this one.


    Noiram.. you gave me a great idea. I remember seeing something on the discovery channel about hydrothermal environments on the ocean floor. something I kinda went with.
    razorbjc... I love your view on this topic. I think you could have thought outside of a crustacean, but I love the fact of something getting lifted into an examining bay. cool.
    psychostrat... nice job with the coral. I like your color choice. I know how hard it was to try to produce a different sort of marine lab.. I agree that it has the same sort of silhouette value as the fauna. Good job overall.
    rusty_01..after posting my image.. I saw your image link. very nice. I like your sense of scale. good color choice as well. I would've wanted to see the figures maybe a little closer to the camera. great job conveying the theme.
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    i've gone very deep into the sea ^^


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    scho81: the animal has a nice organic structure
    razorbjc: interesting approach
    Psychostrat: stylish
    Noiram: the colors dont give a underwaterish feeling

    sry too lazy to comment all ~~

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    First time doing this, it was fun. Unfortunately, I only have Adobe 2.0, so there is no good brush modifier. The paiiiin.

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    Longineus: that is a very large animal... really gets you thinking how it might "continue"...
    asaru: they look like candy, slightly cute (to me) , but the copper thingy at the top is nice
    Kezrek: Welcome to the dsg, I'm kinda new here myself too. Nice piece. I like how the whale looks.
    Virinun: he looks really happy
    scho81: nice and dark I love the colours
    You all have really fine pieces. keep drawing
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    boaa great stuff here. my favs so far are psychostrats, gorans and howies.

    anyway here is my try
    tried the bioshock color palette:-)


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