Extrapolations

This is really cool - congratulation, love the materials/reflections and the design of this airship

Hurray! What a great picture!! Absolutely love it!

[Taron]

Sheeesh, I've missed so many posts again, crazy. Love the style that comes from this one! Colors are gorgeous, but even the BW is a looker for sure!

congrasts Tartan,
geat compo, it makes me wonder from where that baloon's highlight is coming from
it couldn't be the sun since the stormy sky.
To me it looks like coming from fire or a explotion, a sort of destruction due to the conditions.

PD: what is the original resolution, did you use 3d on it?

Thanks all,

Verve really set the mood on this one. I wasn't aiming for this image at first but after I did the sky I was inspired to use it in the "Out" picture as a natural followup to the "Into the Eye" image I posted in a different thread.

Hey Ed. You are almost right about the highlight. It is supposed to be from a city as the ship emerges from the Eye. This scene won't take place until the beginning of the third arc of the story. My main purpose was to take the edge off the 3d look of the blimp. I am not a big fan of some examples of 3d. The plastic, too perfect look. I prefer to take it to a more illustrative form.

On resolution. I recently bought a Superb app from Topaz called the A.I. Gigapixel. I bought it in order to enlarge old 3 d images to a higher resolution. These date back to the mid 90s. and I have several hundred. Can you imagine being in the 90s waiting days to use your computer because it took several days just to render a 800 x 600 scene? lol All I could do was pray I didn't have an electrical blackout.

I had a bit of fun with this project visualizing a piece of Moreorless and one of the alien races that are a part of it's story. My approach to this image is a turnabout to the last one which used Verve as a background with a 3d model as the focal point. This time I used a 3d model as the background with Verve characters as the focal. There were a lot of layers, blending and opacity changes. In Incursion Primus the Verve layer was used twice. One right on top of the background and the other at the top. The inbetween layers were all either tweaked for blends and varying degrees of opacity. With Incursion Secundus the same applied except I used the first Verve character as an underlay to the second for eye definition

Lots of programs used. Poser for the alley background. Verve and Nasa for Space sfx. Bryce used for some background effects also. Verve used for the focal point. Photoshop, Photoshop Photoshop lol Ack! almost forgot but i used Incendia for the gears you can barely see on the right lol
The images are not quite center simply because of textures and a desire to leave spaces left and right for dialogue. I am not sure which one I like the best lol

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Ultra cool mixed progs!

[Taron]

Ugh, that's sinister!
Impressive, T, and NICE to see you back in action!

Thanks Pilou Thanks Taron,

I wish I had more time but I keep getting pulled into other things. At least I finally got my roof repaired from the hurricane that hit last year and I have a working chimney again. Now I am embarking on a tankless water heater project and rerouting several circuits so I can hook a generator into the system to provide electricity for the water pump when the power goes out. Several weeks without each time a major storm rolls through isn't fun.

It's very tempting to try other Verve focals with this image.

Hi Thomas, hope you are better now with your house, I myself moved about 50 kilometers renting a short place cuz I changed jobs.
so u used Gigapixel on your blimp artwork? is that the original resolution?
Now that I think of it, I wonder what Gigapixel could do with some of my low resolution (2000 x 2000 px) Verve paintings of half bodies.
Beside the Blimp, you made a previous artwork, a spaceship that looked like a sortof cloaked living creature flying into a kindof blackhole,
which sortof reminded me to the style of Chris Foss plus the colorfull, contrasty, n detailed richness that only digital can deliver. Would like to see more of them.
Dang I would have to paint my own slightly abstract space paintings too xD, I just have to figure out how to link that subject w the trad classic oil fluids stuff. xD
Congrats man.

PD: I like Incursion Secundus more cuz the silhouette is more developed, n I sense a sortof lighting coming form the right side, though all the detail at the bg may be cutting out some the dof feel, but then again it adds to its sortof psychedelia style, also I see two more people behind each side of the character, I think the img is growing towards a final state, to me perhaps it's 60% done, but, I don't know exactly, hard to say about that.