ART WAR | 2D | G.A.I.A | Tck

tck 2017-01-19 21:09:06 UTC #22

I think about 4-5 hours. I've been using quite a bit of texturing throughout to speed things up, and today for the painting of the big mining machine I started with 3D (although being quite inexperienced with it i was more likely slowed down by that than anything... ) The second painting of the cave also has a faster start because I used a photo plate (you can see both below)

I've also had LevelUp's youtube videos playing continuously in the background and they've really been helpful.

rgdraw 2017-01-19 23:18:27 UTC #23

I like those backstory illustrations, really cool and nice work !

I saw all of the levelup! videos too, it helps me a lot back then !

stellarquasar 2017-01-20 05:23:04 UTC #24

I really love your champion! Mine is going to be somewhat similar to yours in terms of power. Really liking your back story! Please keep it up ^__^

tck 2017-01-20 23:50:24 UTC #25

And they find the source

Question is... how are they going to get it out..?

tck 2017-01-21 15:50:07 UTC #26

Our champion who will be the pilot of G.A.I.A is having doubts about the whole G.A.I.A project. Something about stealing Earth's life force and using it for war doesn't sit quite right...

These are the living quarters in one of the labs (the large dome shaped buildings from the first image)

LensPitt 2017-01-21 16:26:44 UTC #27

Really dig that last illustration, it's very believable and carries a lot of emotions!

rgdraw 2017-01-21 18:05:47 UTC #28

Amazing work !
I'm curious, are those illustration just for fun or there's a full project behind it ?

tck 2017-01-21 23:17:41 UTC #29

well, essentially yes because it's all for the art war but really I'm just practising as much as I can. It's also the first time I've really created anything like this so it's an experiment too

tck 2017-01-21 23:27:50 UTC #30

It was a bit bigger than expected, they needed some serious kit to get it out.

I'm not entirely sure all the mining scenes quite match up but I'm willing to let that slide...

(this piece is also a bit of experimentation as it is far more photomanipulation than anything else)

Trevor_Truscott 2017-01-22 08:48:59 UTC #31

This exploration and story telling is really fun to see and a big effort. Well done, it's great!

rgdraw 2017-01-22 10:54:38 UTC #32

I'd say you should continue this even after the contest because it's really great, and if you push it even further you could do something amazing with this

tck 2017-01-24 22:10:07 UTC #33

Testing the first build of G.A.I.A, it will ultimately be controlled almost entirely by thought alone but this will take some practice... so here we see her physically making the movement (also a chance to make it a little more human )

As for continuing after the competition, I may well do if I think of more interesting things to illustrate, after all I'm really just extending this competition for learning purposes

HorizonDweller 2017-01-25 12:46:46 UTC #34

this is F**** amazing!
thats it , im done with this , im gonna go bury myself alive after this.

tck 2017-01-25 13:20:00 UTC #35

hahah cheers, love your entry so far btw! It's great to see someone else doing backstory :3 the Eternal ripping off his horn to deal the finishing blow was badass xD

HorizonDweller 2017-01-25 15:43:27 UTC #36

thanks a lot, i was thinking about developing some of the frames as illustrations.
once again , i am really impressed by your work, hope some day i will gat there before i'm 20 lol

tck 2017-01-25 23:17:40 UTC #37

I've started a potential final illustration. I thought for full impact I'd have a big battle scene so the plan is to have smaller units crawling around all over the place. I got a little stuck in detailing the focus of the piece though so there's not much sense of scale yet however that shouldn't be too hard to fix.

One very useful thing about getting some more detailed lighting in on the focus is that I can make sure the background elements give as much (or as little) contrast as I want

C&Cs are veeeery welcome as I'm alwasy fearful of sinking too much time into things like this

rgdraw 2017-01-25 23:52:06 UTC #38

Nice work !
Yeah the lack of the smaller units is really an issue for the moment but i'm sure when you'll had that it's going to work great! Keep it up man

tck 2017-01-26 23:14:09 UTC #39

Updated illustration! Alot of foreground troops to really sell the scale but all in fairly restricted value ranges so hopefully they don't draw too much attention

rgdraw 2017-01-27 09:18:01 UTC #40

Oh yeah ! This is getting really good!

HorizonDweller 2017-01-27 12:50:06 UTC #41

Omg and i thought i was fast .... then i saw how much you do , in so little time without loosing quality ...