Grand Space Opera Entry, James Kaufeldt (3D)

[Cyberone]

this was my fav space opera entry...i am a BIG sci-fi fan and this just stands out for me for some reason.....

well done!!! you should be proud!!

:applause:

[supremo]

One of my faves too, nice concept and excellent realization. It looks like a still from a movie.

[JamesMK]

Thanks guys, really happy you like it. :wavey:

[Squibbit]

hey when u become papa smurf ??

why wasn't i informed :sad:

[Ramtin]

is it max creature ? its nice . :scream:

[SuperXCM]

One of my favorite too!! You've done an amazing work, with an original style!! Congratulations!! :beer:

[Michael Hovan]

I found this to be very inspired.
The anchors on the craft are a fabulous idea.

[xbob]

A+... the sense of drama illustrated here is superb... my stomach jumped when I saw it.

[CelticSpiral]

What intrigues me about this work is the apparent feeling of Angled Gravity.

On the lower right we see trekkers walking along (what appears to me) an angled grassy hillside above a hut. But there's something very strange the way the space ships are taking off. As though the spaceships are reacting to another gravity element or field.

Twisted Gravity is the strange extraterrestrial feeling I get in this work. I really am intrigued by it. I've never seen this visual feeling before.

In studying the moons of Jupiter and Saturn I get the feeling that Gravity as we know it here, uniform on Earth, may not be what is actually out there. And this work really gives me the sense of it.

Just Amazing, new, feeling here. I'm not sure if you are aware of it. But you are gifted with strange things, especially a sense of the relativity of gravity. Or I should say how gravity is bent by magnetic fields.....

-MORE!

[JamesMK]

I appreciate your comments a lot :thumbsup:

CelticSpiral - I'm certainly glad that you can see the gravitational oddness, the reason you see it is because I used various tricks in terms of forced perspective in some aspects, most notably perhaps the fact that there are two conflicting vanishing points, one for the tall ships, and another for the ground in the foreground.

These points were synthesized so to speak by, for example, rotating the ships a bit around a common pivot point that has nothing to do with the expected 3D planes... sounds weird when I explain it, but it's really quite simple :D

So, in short, I just forced a perspective "flaw" in a way, to escape from the mathematically correct perspective you get by default when working in 3D. I picked up the idea from an article about some still photography made for the Spiderman movies, where they used various tricks to get more expressive results than reality can offer.

[JMdesign]

wow, nice work i will call you my master JamesMK

[moka.studio]

good stuff! :thumbsup:

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