Eon (Illustration) Entry: Dale Thomas

[SquishMe]

Yay! Welcome and good luck to everyone. I can't wait to get going! :bounce:

[SquishMe]

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Since I have to read the book first in my amazingly limited spare time, I wont be posting any concept art in the near future. However, I wanted to post 'something' so here is a test of the earth done in photoshop. It was very simple and took about 10 minutes. I will post a small tutorial if anyone is interested. I may have something like this in the background of my image.

[OZ]

Cool start!.....i have to read the book too...gosh!looks huge but very exciting. ^_^

[MVDB]

About 10 minutes in PS?!
Well let's see a tutorial about that! If you have the time of course! :D

[walrus]

Welcome back, Dale. I'll be looking forward to seeing what you come up with for the challenge... but in the meantime, YES, definitely post a tutorial. I got some great Photoshop tips from your Spectacular entry! :)

-mike

[MoonVisionStudio]

10 min. Holy Cow, post it!! I think the atmosphere is too tall and soft. Last time I was on the way back from the moon ; ) it was barely visible. Looks good.

[cok3]

looks pretty darn good for 10 minutes dale! definitely interested in the tutorial :) good luck on this one buddy, hope to see more from you soon :thumbsup:

[SquishMe]

Thanks everyone. I will make a tutorial when I have time. I just got back from a long weekend away and so I have no time for painting. Back to work tomorrow.

Also, if anyone is interested, we just found out my wife is expecting another baby :bounce:

[MoonVisionStudio]

Congrats on the baby!

[SquishMe]

Congrats on the baby!

Thanks very much. We are over the moon.
I made a tutorial last night but I didn't have time to put it online. I will do it tonight. :wip:
I want to do something organic, something alien.
I am only half way through the book and there has been only a fleeting glance of a frant. I feel that I might have to read the other books too. :( I will never get started at this rate...

[SquishMe]

Here you go. I promised a quick tutorial.
Earth tutorial (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3920193#post3920193)
Enjoy.

I am still ploughing my way through the book. Phew!
Waiting for inspiration. I feel like I am being left behind :cry:

[SquishMe]

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This is what I think a frant looks like. I am still only half way through the book so there are probably better descriptions later on. If there are any errors here, please let me know.
For example, the head is very thin but I am not sure in which dimension it is supposed to be flattened.

[Golpe]

Hi there! looks very interesting your Frant concept hehe. I imagine the frant head like, for example, smahing a human head by the sides and front, a little but intense eyes, clear forehead, knock-kneed, and maybe a bigger torso.

Anyway, looks cool:thumbsup: Good luck!!

[nwiz25]

outta this world man! :thumbsup:

outta - this - world!


cheers to u mate! good luck! :) :) :) :)

[daWinky]

Hey Dale!

Aaah, awesome cute alien:thumbsup: ...and very,hmm... alien for sure!:D

I would have seen him more humanlike, but why not playing with fantasy here!

Thanks for the PS-tutorial, ah and btw: Congrats for awaiting the baby:) !

Looking forward to see more here!

Cheers,

-sabrina

[SquishMe]

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This is just a quick test of an idea I had on how to do centre-offset cylindrical mapping in photoshop. I will make a short tutorial later perhaps. I probably wont use this technique but it was interesting to do.

[SquishMe]

Just made a quick and dirty tutorial for the tube rendering experiment.
Here (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3923741#post3923741)
Please let me know if you find it helpful. :)

[nwiz25]

spectacular man! :eek: ... feels like being there for real! :eek: damn!

[SquishMe]

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"All the other nonhuman researchers were surrounded by similar fields, the most striking being a sinuous, snake-bodied, four-headed being suspended in coils in a levitated sphere of deep green liquid, like a preserved specimen."

[nwiz25]

woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!:eek:


so very coool! >:D< :eek: this is just amazing man!! ... cant wait to c wats next! :)

good luck to u! :P cheers!

[mdavid]

Beautiful work so far. The frant looks excellent - those extra joints in the limbs look nicely alien! Thanks for the Earth tutorial too

[daWinky]

Hey Dale,

I like your textured tube, could be a nice starting point for something here:) ...
But of course the real eyecatcher is your floating sphere, again a very alien look:scream: ...

Waiting for the next ideas!

-sabrina

[Nekomouse]

SUGOI!!!
Those all look awesome...
Ganbatte kudasai!

[walrus]

Great job on the latest alien, Dale!
Not that it's an integral part of the stroy like the Frants, but I had pictured this with just one body and 4 heads. What's funny about your depiction is that now, they compleely remind me of the Brothers, a race of aliens from Greg Bear's "The Anvil of Stars" (except they didn't have the sphere around them.) If it's not a coincidence, I don't know whether to blame you or Mr. Bear! :)

Keep up the good work... Any thoughts about what scene you're going to focus on yet?

Nice job on the tutorials, btw.

-mike

[brrrhmmm]

Side by Side comparisons So that you know who is doing

what in the illustration category of the eon challenge only.

Classifier followed by artists.Some artists appear in more than one category because of their art is

multiclassed.

: Strong/Beautiful Foreground Potraits with EON elements in the background.

Movie Posters theme.

Characters in dramatic poses.

Characters have detailed skin,muscle and skeletal structures.

Very Detailed Vehicle showed prominently together with characters.The Focus is Character.

Kari Salmi

Andrey Akulov

Lei Jin

Albert Feliu

Damir G. Martin

Niels-Ullé Walther

Mathias Verhasselt(Forum Leader)

Tan Guang Yu

Simon Bull

Michael See(Based on Sacha Word Of Mouth)

Justin Kellis

Da Feng

Giuliano Brocani

Roderic Rodriguez

Marek Okon

Edward Cicka

Tuan Nguyen

Linda Luksic(Based on Sacha Word Of Mouth)

Linda Smith

William Leafe

Raffy Encarnacion Dermawan

Marco Alejandro Castelan Morales

John Streider

Radu Bogdan Boeru

Tiberius Viris

Sacha angel diener

Niklas Frostgard

Michael van den bosch

sandra bott

michael dashow

nabil hamadi

alwyn talbot

timur kiryashov

damir g martin

Nathan L Bachelder

Daniel lu visi

Maurizio Manzieri

dale thomas

ego lataire

rune rask

guo jian

hugo araujo

: massive architectures,detailed cityscapes,plasma tubes,huge eon elements viewed in the distance in the style of grand space opera with miniscule,faceless,diminutive men ,women and all terrain machines reacting and responding to the environment.Archictectural elements include buildings,pylons,aqueducts,railways station,arches and airports as well as roads.The Focus is Architecture.Huge Explosions may be present.

Mike Moir

Ernest Burden

Lamair Nash

Marty Jones

Raul Heib

Elena Fitts

Lorenz Hideyoshi Ruwwe(Inspirational Art)

Claire O'Brien

Sean J

Tibor Beďatš

Michael Merrill

Michael Krenzin

Kerem

James Nelms

mihai liviu

nabil hamadi

Bjorn Norberg

Tian Yanbing

David Wolstenholme

Ales Marcik

Renee Bailey

Krystian Polak

Jean-Sébastien Guillemette

Tuan Nguyen

Jesse Speak

Timur Kiryashov

Mark Goldsworthy

Roman Bernhard Eppstein

Raffy Encarnacion Dermawan

Tiberius Virius

remko troost

tolgahan gungor

torsten wolber

nathaniel west

ramy badie

bryce smith

martin nielsen

emrah elmasli

mauricio alvarado kladt

prabath wijayantha

maciej frolow

nilesh ambekar

constantinos krystallis

greg kaperski

adrian fekete

reinaldoromero

marcin j. nikiforuk

james nelms

maurizio manzieri

jarek sznytzer

Derek wilson

Nazirull Safry Paijo

Daniel justin bird

dale thomas

erik linden

rune rask

david freeman

ori arad

markus graf

ali jalali

raffy encarnacion

alex kelly

jennifer Kathleen Phillips

: air ,sea atmosperics featuring natural elements of islands,skies blend into a grand sense of scale.Includes Tree elements.Gaia oriented.Mountain views and Spectacular chamber vistas. Sky atmospherics.Rivers curve and bend and disappear in the distance.Organic and Crystalline Inorganic natural forms.Terrain

and Environment is the Focus and site of adventure.

Mark Cripps

Jeff Zugale

Thomas Ingham

Tan Guang Yu

Ric Brehm

lei huang

adrian baluta

gonzalo golpe

gunilla elam

jonathan colvin

guo jian

oscar jostedt

brian Slayton

yann tisseron

yaroslav kravchenko

dusten s. sonnon

: party scene with the character interacting and gossiping

Social Parties gathered at gate opening or onboard a ship or library viewing.

Radu Bogdan Boeru

nekomouse

Phillip Buchanan

christian paterson

Alex Kelly

: wonderful sense of humor even black humor and caricature

Torsten Wolber

per trystad

mark david

: action packed conflict with eon elements in the backdrop and lots of machines,ships,cities and soldiers.battlefield atmospherics

Andrzej Rudz

thierry schiel

paul hume

Karel Fourie





: entire cities,planetary bodies,asteroids,weather systems,gates,singularities,flawships and space vehicles in awe inspiring perspectives with large scale explosions.Ships have beautiful designs.Space/Aerospace Atmospherics.The Focus is on Flight.Very Detailed Flight Vehicle showed prominently with characters dressed for flight.

Bazzaro

John Cahoon

Kirt Stanke

Mona Eriksson

Emil Petrinic

Bjorn Norberg

Will Brown

Michael Burburan

Phillip Buchanan

Dmitri G Michniouk

Mark Alford

sacha angel

neville de souza

prabath wijayantha

greg kaperski

mona eriksson

attilla kurt

vladimir davidenko

paul b castillo

juha kamarainen

mauricio alvarado kladt

joel carlo

shawn andrews

matt benya

Derek Wilson

blaz porenta

oscar jostedt

pavel elagin

yann tisseron

blaz porenta

: detailed explanatory tutorials

sacha angel

matt benya

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