Spectacular 2D Entry: Sean J

[EnSoph]

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Hi there~
Well,this is the first time to enter CGtalk challenge for me.

I choose a story "The Immortal" written by Jorge Luis Borges becuase it's spectacular!

I want to chage the mood of the scene in the story to something like sci-fi.

Here is an idea sketch.

Ultimately, I gonna make an environment but you could also see some character sketches before that.

I would appreciate your advice and comments.

Thanks.

[EnSoph]

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It's a quick sketch for a battle scene in undergroung of the desert between Augyls and humans.

[EnSoph]

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Painting

[EnSoph]

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Augyl

[beelow]

I never reat the story, you may want to explain it more, But good sketches so far, and good luck to ya, holla!:thumbsup:

[EnSoph]

Thanks beelow :)

Here's a summary of [The Immortal]. The original story is full of exciting events.

My final goal will be The City of the Immortals.


(A.D. 3C) One night Marcus Flaminus Rufus, military tribune of one of Rome’s legions, met an exhausted and bloody man from the east. He told Marcus about the secret river whose water grant immortality and the city of the immortals…..and then he died. Marcus marched to find the river. During the marching, his troops planed mutiny but he escaped and continued his search alone. Before succumbing to death himself, he drank dark water and fell over where troglodytes live.

Miraculously, he could alive and he found a secret city. He went into a giant circular chamber: rooms of nine doors each, with eight of them leading backwards, and only one leading deeper into the maze.

After a countless number of rooms, he finally found his way out of the labyrinth into an even more perplexing city of mystery. He convinced that this is the kingdom constructed by the immortals, although it is abandoned. The city was older than mankind, than the earth. It abounded in dead-end corridors, high unattainable windows, portentous doors which led to a cell or pit, incredible inverted stairways whose steps and balustrades hung downwards.

He came out from the city of immortals spending a lot of time. As he escaped from there he found a troglodyte had waited him. He decided to try to make contact with him, and to teach him a couple of basic words. However the troglodyte couldn’t speak and understand human languages. Marcus named him Argos, the dog of Ulysses.

Several years later, without any warning, Argos told Macus that he was the author of Odyssey, Homer. Marcus realized that Homer (Argos) and his fellow troglodytes, and even Marcus himself, were the immortals.

After time, Marcus left there to search for the river that removes immortality.
(4th Oct 1921) Eventually, he succeeded, and he died with a satisfaction

[EnSoph]

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This is the gate of the city of the Immortals. (front and side views)

[EnSoph]

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I made this gate with card boards for composition.

[EnSoph]

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Here's WIP using the card model.
Waterfall surrounds the bridge and the gate. Marcus(the hero in the story) escaped from a huge labyrinth at the back of the falls. You can see a small hall in the middle of it.

[EnSoph]

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It's a part of the city.

[EnSoph]

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The gate

[EnSoph]

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It's the same WIP with Concept painting_02.

[Korline]

dude those are mind blowing, some sweet compositions,
your light is right on, maybe little more movement and it's perfect,
love this stuff :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[EnSoph]

Thanks a lot Korline~

[EnSoph]

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The side view of bridges

[EnSoph]

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Each narrow road comes out of the abandoned sculptures spine.
You can see a man stands on its knee.

[Korline]

I see, coming with some more creepy spooky out of the mind stuff
just keep on going man, now this is creative

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

[tarrzan]

Sean, your style is incredible man, very inspiring! good luck!!

[Tonsen]

Hey Sean!

Your ghostly sketch of the character, and the Concept_02 are just wonderful! I'm very much looking forward to your progress.

Awesome

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[Tyrus88]

Awesome sketches man!:thumbsup:

[EnSoph]

Korline, tarrzan, Tonsen and Tyrus_88
Thanks guys~
Great work all

[MichaelZHsee]

interesting structure design u've got here~very nice overall~u'll got all the depth as well~i'll keep up with ur thread :)

[t3logy]

Your talent is incredibly inspirational. Keep it up.

La'Dene

[Atris]

Very good drawing! I like "concept_painting_03" very much! It's great idea! "Concept_painting_04" is very great too! But it seems to me that the composition looks a little flat. Good luck!!

[Slav]

that is really nice. i dont know how i didnt find this before. but i really like the way this is growing man. sweet job. :)

[EnSoph]

sh@ke, t3logy, Atris, Slav

Thanks for your comments.:)
Recently I couldn't upload anything 'cause I've been lazy but I'll do it soon!

[EnSoph]

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A unit of the city

[EnSoph]

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[EnSoph]

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[EnSoph]

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I tried to design the city looks like something organic shape.
There's a main structure in the middle of flying buttresses. I took the form from a murex little bit for that.
Murexes have a lot of long horns on its surface. I changed them as bridges.
As you see this, you can feel the same mood of the bridge painting I draw before.

[2xbo]

Hi Sean J. WOW.... COOL work. I can't wait to see more.
I'll follow close your work.

xbo :scream:

[EnSoph]

Thanks~ 2xbo

[wildcory1]

the sky looks great

[EnSoph]

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Well...My theme is City of the Immortals. So far I've asked myself, "What kind of form can symbolize immortality?" The Immortals can live forever so they can do everything. Some of them may think that man can rise as a god. So their architecture contains that idea.
I've wanted to make a growing organic city. The spiral is the natural shape of growth. It’s a symbol of the advance of the soul toward eternal life. The universe and human conscience itself form a continuum and dynamic that can be rightly expressed in a spiral.

Here’s a quick sketch for a spiral structure.

[EnSoph]

wildcory1, thanks for your comment.

[EnSoph]

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3D

[EnSoph]

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City of the air and water

[Steve-h]

Really like your style Sean, lots of good ideas here.

:)

[EnSoph]

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Thanks, Steve-h

Here's the one I took the middle part from Concept painting_05_3 and painted on it.

[angwafalmar]

Wow, this is awsome, these pieces have some strange feeling about them, Baginski's "Cathedral" comes to my mind when looking at these pics. Can't wait to see the final image!

[Slav]

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that one is such a powerful image... it left me at an awe.

i am just wondering what one you pick as you final concept :P

[EnSoph]

angwa_falmar: Thanks a lot~ I've thought about an organic city growing eternally.

Slav: Thanks! I'm also curious about that. I feel I'm walking in the fog.I hope I could find a good idea ASAP.

[EnSoph]

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The water city with irregular spiral architecture.

[THECLYKE]

very nice
love the depth of your last post
cheers

[Korline]

hello,
I think this is one of the best entries I've seen, color is just right, love ur perspective
it creates this emptyness, wich is scary, :bounce:
one thing if those are birds they are spread to evenly, just to symerical
but I love your ideas :love:
cheers :thumbsup:

[EnSoph]

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It's the ruined city on the misty canyon. Now it has the foreground and background. I'll add something in the middle soon.

[EnSoph]

THE CLYKE, Korline
Thanks a lot!

[EnSoph]

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This city is on an icecap. That's why I chose blue tone. I put a spiky architecture in the middle. It's from my previous concept paint 05_4.

[EnSoph]

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I changed the tone and added some clouds.

[Korline]

hi there,
:D
not sure which colors I like better, the second one is colder I think,
I like the character in this, but I think that if you put some dim lights here and there, you could get more contrast, and make it more beliveable, not sure but I would give it a try,
great job :applause:
cheers :twisted:

[jugeras]

yup - agree with korline. a bit more color to the foreground might give it a bit more depth.

the purplish piece has more depth because of the darker tones in the foreground - i think.

hello jarek. cheers man. :thumbsup:

[EnSoph]

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I added the sun light. It's not finished yet but the tone will be changed little bit.

[EnSoph]

Korline and jugeras:
I appreciate your advice. It's really helpful.

[EnSoph]

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Foreground zoom

[EnSoph]

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The middle part

[EnSoph]

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<Concept>
I joined Spectacular challenge after I read a story "The Immortal" written by Jorge Luis Borges.
It’s about a man trying to find the river whose water grant immortality.
I chose a scene, the city of the Immortals, from the story but this final image is not just same with the text.
I changed it looks like sci-fi.

The Immortals can live forever so they can do everything. Some of them may think that man can rise as a god. So their architecture contains that idea. With this concept, I painted a growing organic city. I took the form from a murex little bit because it’s kind of a spiral. It’s a symbol of the natural shape of growth and the advance of the soul toward eternal life.

< Final Image>
A guy stands on the ruined architecture and looks up the abandoned city. The city is on the misty valley. It deforms its shape to organic thing emitting energy.

[Atris]

Hi! The idea is very interesting! In my view you managed to convey the atmosphere of the fear and lonelines! The really great atmosphere! Congratulations! Good luck in the next stage of the challenge! :)

[EnSoph]

Hi Atris~ thanks for your commenthttp://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon7.gif

[Korline]

hey Sean
great imagination, stuff like that is not easy to visualize, and not to turn in to a cliche, I really admire that :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:
bealiful art with the cool story behind it :buttrock:
good luck to you :thumbsup:
see you around, cheers,
Jarek :twisted:

[Nomad]

Impressive work, you created a great mood here :thumbsup:


Good luck for the voting process :bounce:

[EnSoph]

Korline : Everytime you gave me your advice, it helped me a lot to develop my work.Thanks!

Nomad : Thanks a lot~

Good luck to you guys, too :)
Cheers!

[jungleshade]

What program(s) did you use for the creation of the gate. I really like the depth of the image when combined with the background. The lighting is right on too.

[EnSoph]

jungleshade, sorry for the very late reply. I made a card model and took some pics and then I painted with it in Photoshop and Painter. Thanks for your comment :)

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