Still : Island of the Romantic

[De-Cypher]

wow, id like to see whats on that island... it's like a dream...

[Dr.Smart]

Great work ..

Umm, I remembered a kids show about magical stories with this island :drool:

[PhilOsirus]

BEAUTIFULL:thumbsup: But could you not use some bump displacement on the rocks? That way it would be even better, or really perfect!

[LoneLobo]

oh yeah, that a great image!

De-Cypher said it, it reminds of a dream :)

[Fex]

very nice piece of art :thumbsup:
maybe a slight zoom out would make composite more intresting!?
please send a wire..
like to know whats mesh and wants texture:)

[pezz]

Amazing, great work. I'd love it if you made a super highres so I can make it a poster on my wall :p It reminds me of some of the artwork from the Myth games.

[JoBbE]

yeah pezz myth as the first thing I thought about when I saw the image :)
ElRafo: great work!

[shamhead]

very nice!

didnt giger do a variation of the Bröcklin image? or something very similar?

[Wiro]

Ah that Boecklin (not BRoecklin btw :)) hangs in Basler Kunstmuseum in Switzerland...our art teacher used to gather us around it because he liked it so much, hehe.

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/B/boecklin.html

Very nice interpretation of it! Yours looks less depressing :thumbsup:

Wiro

[ambient-whisper]

it looks like a very nice image:) i dont think it needs any displacement. but what could make it look "bigger" is maybe if the atmosphere affected the water. meaning if it was a bit less reflective.

( im not too keen on physics but can deep water be as reflective as in that image!?)

maybe adding fog to the water could help?

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thank u guys :)

Yes! I wanted to make it less depressing!
this is why its called "romantic"...
Giger did also a few versions of this painting, u can find
it there (http://giger.pp.ru/pics/Island_of_Death_After_Boecklin.jpg.shtml)

and here is the wireframe for the technical lovers :)
not very optimized and I know! the trees are not 3d!

but its like a matte no? ;)

see ya!

:beer:

[facial]

Well done El Rafo, i love your lay out work and lighting effect. :applause: :applause:
Did you plan to create a animation clip?

[undoz]

myst atmosphere
just grate

[visualboo]

ha, yeah you nailed that one martin. The reflection on the water needs some work.

besides that... well done

[Raphael-Lacoste]

http://raphael.lacoste.free.fr/ftp/CG_forums/ile_des_romantiques2.jpg

[psil]

Wow!:eek: :applause:

I've always loved that painting and I love your render of it.

[FLOw]

I wanna see a rollecoaster (Riven style) animation on that island :thumbsup:

[boomji]

hey dude,
1) ambient is right, water is a bit too reflective.
2)the mountain on my left(the one which looks like a kings throne) looks very straight(back).
3)bg is married to the fg seamlessly...most cg environments fail due to sticking a map in the environment channel's...how'd you manage that(technical process).
4)romantic...but also with a sense of foreboading...generally when i see birds circling around a island i think(or programmed to...) something is dead or theres eeevvvilll(austin powers ;) ).may be they could splash across the sky diagonally to give some angular relief to the composition imho...obviously.
5)it's these kind environments that make me go sighhh...what a beautiful world !!!.
b

[pascal_blanche]

and you guys didnt see the kind of cg picts he is doing there ... and reel time! crazy!
btw martin.. where the heck did you grab this metal slug tank???

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thanks guys,

alors cteu pétanque taing?
on perd la main là leuleu :bounce:

[ambient-whisper]

Originally posted by pascal blanché
and you guys didnt see the kind of cg picts he is doing there ... and reel time! crazy!
btw martin.. where the heck did you grab this metal slug tank???

http://www.gamepapers.com/gifs/gifs_fr.php?page=0&c=60

http://www.imercenari.it/Non_usate/smileMS.htm

have fun:) i seen other pages with more but cant find em anymore :(

http://perso.wanadoo.fr/skrime/gifs/metal_slug_024.gif

[sad]

http://www.zademack.de/www6alt/011b.jpg

a very nice interpretation by http://www.zademack.de

your 3d picture is so great :applause:

[Carlocki]

That was the most liked picture by Adolf Hitler

[bibi5000]

Whoa! Stop it!

And Saddam likes Caspar David Friedrich?

That doesn't make it a bad picture.

[pascal_blanche]

YAY thx martin :thumbsup:

[Raphael-Lacoste]

Originally posted by Carlocki
That was the most liked picture by Adolf Hitler

and thats also the reason why we shouldn't listen to Carl Orff, I imagine??

I've never heard that hitler was interersted by bocklin...even its right, bocklin was not fachist...he was a symbolist painter like the others, don't think ur post is helpfull.

[Nahaz]

Fantastic!

Strikes a chord with me. You understand the importance of shadowing, leaving much to the imagination of the viewer.

[bibi5000]

I forgot to say:

You did a great job.

I like this image very much, as I like most of Böcklin's pictures.
But this is my favourite.

Once again: Great job!

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thks guys,

here is a few references of other artist who worked on this subject:

giger (http://giger.pp.ru/pics/Island_of_Death_After_Boecklin.jpg.shtml)
norman mac laren (http://cmm.nfb.ca/E/titleinfo/index.epl?id=10748&recherche=simple&coll=onf)
bocklin (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/bocklin.html)
caza (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/caza.html)
druillet (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/pdruillet.html)
hartmann (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/hartmann.html)
kupke (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/kupke.html)
manara (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/manara.html)
Sorel (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/gsorel.html)
piccoli (http://www.chez.com/alexis1jek/ego/toteninsel/piccoli.html)
Moebius (http://perso.club-internet.fr/ptritten/bd/27SIGN.gif)

and maybe others! :)

[parallax]

el rafo

That is some nice in-game art you got there on your website.
(at first sight, hard to believe its even real-time)
I think you've got talent for cinematography, some pictures of that highlander game rival the stuff you see in features.

i especially like the city stuff. very film noir-ish

ps.

what exactly did you do on the backgrounds? all of it??

[Raphael-Lacoste]

thanks stefan,


I did all this backgrounds (shown on my website) for the game project of highlander...its a shame thats the ship went down :(

and for ur concern all this pictures are for real time engine, (under 15,000 polygons, for GEforce 2) except the picture of the inside church, which was done for a cinematic ;)

see ya!

[Larry_g1s]

Gorgeous picture! Nuff said.

[Heber G Conde]

It´s realy beautfull. Very originaly creation.
Maybe the trees should have some color correction, in fact, I almost don´t percept that there were trees in the image, but it´s all interpretation!
Good work, I realy like it.
Heber

[gege2100]

:thumbsup: pretty cool man !

[DimSum]

Ouah putaing t'as tué là !

J'aime bien l'ambiance...et je suis pas vraiment d'accord avec je sais plus qui qui disait que des oiseaux qui tournaient en rond qlq part signifiait automatiquement qu'il y'avait des cadavres ou qlq chose comme ça...je trouve qu'il manque totalement d'imagination,...argh oui, les gens qui sont entièrement refermé dans leur bulle qu'il croient être la réalité, ça m'a toujours ernervé...:p Un peu d'imagination et de féerie koi !
Voilà, je n'ai jamais vu l'origninal dont tu es parti, mais j'aurais adoré voir des rochers, heu...comment dire...plus rochers koi lol. Je veux dire avec des variations ds les formes un peu partout. Mais loin de moi de critiquer ton oeuvre, il est superbe !

Au fé, t'auré pas des liens persos pour que je puisse mater tes travaux ?

PS : Heu non, désolé les gars, mon post est trop long pr que je le traduise en anglais lol

[Raphael-Lacoste]

ainki!

merci, tu peux chercher dans les post, il y a des liens sur les multiples interprétations de cette image , y compris l'original de boecklin. pour les autre images, clique sur le lien WEB sous mon post ;)

[DimSum]

Merci de l'info...:beer:

[piajartist]

what program/s did you use?

[ejayM2]

is there more than one giger interpretation of this? cause i saw a different pic than the one you posted of giger... i just typed "isle of the dead boecklin" in my browser, and i ended up on a site that showed a different giger version than the one you posted...

or maybe i was just hallucinating...?

[Raphael-Lacoste]

hello piajartist, I used Softimage 4.0 ;)
I loove this new-old software!

aesthitic, Yes giger did a few version of this picture, like caza, moebius, druillet, sorel, mac laren, manara...
http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19720&perpage=15&pagenumber=2
bottom of the page ;)

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