DSG 1368: Sci-Fantasy • THE GREAT MECHANICAL SQUID

[William b. Hand]

[ This might be a very high-tech looking mecha... ]

[ ...Or a steam-punky, Jules Vern-y, kinda thang. ]

[ You decide. ]

[ You have the power. ]

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Sci-Fantasy • THE GREAT MECHANICAL SQUID
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[Lingmerth]

I've noticed a strong aqua/mechanic theme been going on for a while now

[ Mod Reply: I've been specifically orienting the recent DSG topics to echo the community activities' DEEP challenge. ]

[firestar]

[Chuckcamo]

[pepps]

nice topic!

guess it+s a bit hard to understand the story behind this picture...

i tried to do something a bit comic...as i rarely do it eheheh

the idea is that in a future, after humanity colonized the sea, the so called nerds will be acquire more and more power, but less and less girls. So they start building giant squids to hunt down happy couples and the new married ones =)

c&c welcome =)

cheers

[lysgaard]

Psychostrat: Really cool! Reminds me of Matrix/Animatrix.

[kRaven]

[Snowbeat]

By snowbeat47 at 2008-06-02

[erniesthings]

Had some ideas flowing, good or not.

[Hamsta]

[goran]

[Razorleaf]

[Dreamscape]

[Dreamscape]

Lots of great work people, I have enjoyed looking closely at everyones work!

[browntear]

Can't see much of the design in mine, but I had some fun (& a little frustration) in doing this.



quick thoughts

firestar great design, i like how it looks huge and manned

psychostrat nice rendering, scary looking and intimidating

pepps your story and image match perfectly, I can picture gleeful nerds inside the squid happy with their capture

lysgaard i like how you made your squid more land-based

kraven awesome rendering

snowbeat cool design, i wish it had more arms and was massive in scale

erniesthings fun designs and very cool colors

hamsta a little tough to read but looks like a great start

goran crazy rendering!

razorleaf i like this one alot more than the original one you had up, cool colors and I like all the segments

dreamscape nice design, makes me want to see the other side of it as well

[llothcat]

gettin' back into the grooooove

[Neondevil]

Oofa this one turned out really bad.

[Ilikesoup]

[Leprechaun]

Well, now that I'm finally situated back home, I can start doing these again!
So here I give you, the mechanical squid:

[torazine]

too rough.. sorry~

[LYNK]

it hasn't quite got the mechanic feeling... anyhow, here one of my photoshopexperiments...

[Newman101]

this is my first post in the DSG for a while. Let me know what you guys think.

[Hamsta]

browntear Right back atcha.
A little hard to read the orange thing as a squid, and the whole "giant wave due to monstrosity" isn't working quite right.

A few suggestions, to be taken with a grain of salt:

Push the scale more - change the rowboat to a cruiseliner.
Kill the saturation - turquoise water and bright orange squid are a little too cheerful, and don't match the lighting that we would expect with such clouds.
Find a better crop - Squid feels cramped on the top, I don't like the way the wave just drops off on the right side.

Could potentially be a very dynamic image.

[browntear]

Thanks for the great feedback Hamsta. It's definitely needed and appreciated!

[Archerion]

Figured i start participating;

20 min photoshop.

[shiNIN]

here's mine! after a quick pencilwork, 2 hours in Photoshop... I know I'm slow, but it will change with practice. I focused on the squid design, so my environment is just 'there', no depth... I planned to use just a few colors and ended up making my first monochrome digital pic


kRaven, goran: beautiful rendering!

[clockwork_penguin]

New here...
Figured I should post something

40?? mins.... at work between customers

[benkashmir]

not the best, i got tired of it really fast.

[Dorkthrone]

goran, benkashmir, and Psychostrat's entries= own.

[Sudsy]

Poor quality scan (for which I apologize!) of the Mechanical Squid, drawn while sitting in a bath tub while on vacation using "Rite in the Rain" paper and pen. They work very well for the artist who might draw in inclimate weather... As long as its warm enough for ink to flow!