EOW Round 158: Orrery Chamber

[fragmentedchimp]

holy hell bnoch, thats some fancy stuff.

alright, only tried this thing twice, this being the second, didn't finish the pilgrimage thing in time, tear it up, trying to get that giant crevasse feel, its tough

[Jaunay]

Ohhh i love that a few people have taken the cave approach. I wish Bnoch would do a tutorial of some sort... Sigh such good use of textures. Do you think we could pay him to crit out sketchbooks? Lol.

[fragmentedchimp]

i like that idea ^

little update, im thinking more flat detail and less mess when i work on this again.

[+oas+]

hey peoples, i posted this a few other places. i bought the spark book by steambot studios from amazon, but they sent me 2 copies by mistake. i opened both copies for some reason... anywho, both copies are in great condition.

the book is 40 bucks new, but im selling it for 30. you can msg me if your interested.

[hyjaxe]

some progress

[komugurakingdom]

New update. Thanks, everyone, for the great comments. It's only my first EOW round, but I already feel like I improved quite a bit...

[dragon4lunch]

Alright, I'm joining this round. Here an idea for an awesome restaurant in the future! A simulated universe in the background (giant LED screen) and several "planets" you can visit to dine in.



It's quite a lot of work with all the arcs and the roundness and the people. Hope to get a good result. This is what I have so far.

[+oas+]

which program offers a look similar to painting in real life, replicating thick paint, as if it has depth.

i have painter, but cant seem to nail that look down. is this something artrage achieves/ painter?

[emerging]

which program offers a look similar to painting in real life, replicating thick paint, as if it has depth.

i have painter, but cant seem to nail that look down. is this something artrage achieves/ painter?

I honestly think it is painter that people use for that. I tried it couple times and the strokes seem to give that painterly effect. I did not pursue learning it though because it seemed so different from photoshop and i was waaay to slow at navigating and figuring out where things are. You could look up some free photoshop brushes that go by the name of "real brush strokes" or something similar. I am pretty sure if you are good at painter though you will achieve way better results for what you are trying to do.

[Jaunay]

I honestly think it is painter that people use for that. I tried it couple times and the strokes seem to give that painterly effect. I did not pursue learning it though because it seemed so different from photoshop and i was waaay to slow at navigating and figuring out where things are. You could look up some free photoshop brushes that go by the name of "real brush strokes" or something similar. I am pretty sure if you are good at painter though you will achieve way better results for what you are trying to do.

I with you in that boat Emerging, I've tried to use painter but it runs even slower than photoshop does on my computer. Maybe i just need to stick at it some more. But i feel like anything that can be achieved in painter can be achieved in photoshop. I'd love for someone that knows painter and photoshop well to give some insights on this.

[agitpop]

i used to use painter and pshop, but just use pshop now. i found painter way too buggy and it was always crashing. pshop is more stable on my mac, anyway. painter does have more "natural media" brushes and people who use it get amazing results. look at dan milligan (10th icon in the top row from the left) or of course the immortal ryan church. but pshop can do most of the same things once you master the brush tools. having said that, if you are windows, you can also check out paint tool SAI http://www.systemax.jp/en/sai/
it only works on windows tho!

also there are plenty of forum threads debating the relative merits on cA if you wanna get some more opinions.

you guys are all doing amazing stuff with this topic, btw. i am having so much fun lurking and checking out all the different concepts and glad i am not competing against this great artwork. looking forward to the finals.

[dragon4lunch]

Update:


Let me know how this reads. It seems to me 256 shades of grey are not enough. Can't Photoshop CS 5 give me more? Well .jpg can only give us 8bit,
so painting 16-bit kind of pointless.

[+oas+]

im done son

[komugurakingdom]

Dragon4lunch, I'm in love with this concept (it reminds me of the hitchhiker's galaxy for some reason...) but be careful not to make it too dark.

[hyjaxe]

Final

[Trapiki]

Another EOW deadline that I will miss. ;_;

At least I have legit reasons this time. I've been ill with a nasty bout of the flu.

Absolutely lovely work as usual

[Anti-11]

another update

[Gadbury]

Gonna call this final

[Anti-11]

Gonna call this final

Gadbury-I'm not good at crits but I'll give it a whirl I like how you went with the ancient greece concept that you went for the depth and the perspective looks flawless so far

[Emokun]

Hi, great work everybody!

[Homerid]

Some awesome stuff guys, great variety of concepts.
Sorry for not posting in the last days, I have some university finals coming next week and I'm struggling to get some spare time to finish my piece.

So, last update. I went detail nuts in the last hours and this is the result , I'll probably change a few things but I'm pretty much done. Again thanks all for the feedback and support, and good luck in the voting!

[pipobimbo]

Unfortunately, I'll have to call this final.
I had some other ideas, but nothing really came to reality.
Anyway, there are some great pictures already.

[skoenig]

I was very disappointed in my work in the last EOW, so I wanted to make sure I had a really strong composition and value structure before I started.

I really like the idea of worlds within world and how string theory Buddhism and Hinduism all relate. I have two different thumbnails below based on these ideas

1) My first idea was of an Orrey of the Multiverse when Vishnu made up of "string" particles balances all the 10 dimensions of the Multiverse in his 10 hands. Within each world you can look down further and further levels till you get to our solar system. Vishnu is then standing on the back of a turtle with holds up the Cabali-yau shape (which is supposedly what a cross section of the next dimension would look like) in the vastness of space. I didn't know if this idea was too out there and no longer fit the brief so I came up with a second idea too. (this is the bottom one, accidentally uploaded in the wrong order)

2) This take place on a mountain top in a parallel universe. A high priest had a vision of what the Multiverse Orrey (from above) looked like and then the society built a temple a giant statue inside that looks like the 10 dimension down, out solar system. (this is the top one, accidentally uploaded in the wrong order)

I would love to hear anyone's thoughts on which one I should finish, just hope I have time.

[skoenig]

Homerid, I really love your take on this, so different than anything I would have thought of, and the composition and rendering are top notch.

[+oas+]

homerid.. looks noice ,but i do think the background needs work. it just looks unfinished. those shadows are great though.

skoenig.. that first one is badass.

emokun.. this looks very clean, only crit would be that some of the lights could maybe be a bit brighter or show some density. such as the moniter and floor lights.

[skoenig]

homerid.. looks noice ,but i do think the background needs work. it just looks unfinished. those shadows are great though.

skoenig.. that first one is badass.

emokun.. this looks very clean, only crit would be that some of the lights could maybe be a bit brighter or show some density. such as the moniter and floor lights.

+Oas+ - thanks! Any encouragement help after my epic disaster of an EOW last week. I realized I upload in the wrong order, I assume you like the top one (description 2), please let me know trying to choose which to finish, but mostly doing that one.

[komugurakingdom]

Skoenig, the first one. Absolutely.

[daflom]

my final:

[Homerid]

FINAL

[dragon4lunch]

Oh, so we post our finals in this thread. Ok, here is my FINAL.

Description: This is a super-cool restaurant where you have to go up an elevator and exit in the center (inside the sun). From there you can chose between four different locations: The large restaurant in the center, inside the sun, or one of the planets. You walk there through the arms. The universe is a large simulation and on special occasions they even change it. Maybe they show old Star Trek episodes etc...