Saving the Alien Girl, Daniel Lieske (3D)

[gawain]

I'm happy to be the first one to comment this!
It's amazing, and it has the delicious flavour of the old sci-fi book covers.
Very cool!
G.

[stage-gr]

equally happy to be the second to comment as well :D
excellent choice of colors!

[LadyPurple]

Really beautiful work, impressive :)

[jimidv]

wow! great piece!:bowdown:

[makman123]

this is so cool ... greate photo .. the colors are greate the characters are greate too

fantastic

[creinholtz]

Great use of color! Always refreshing to see a nice pallet when everything now a days seems to lean towards earth tones and dry looking environments. It's very Juicy! if that makes sense. haha. Very clean as well. Congrats!

[digitaldecoy]

Hey, thanks for all your nice feedback!

The colors of this image are often commented. The interesting thing about creating this image in 3D for me was, that I could put all the detail into it first and chosing the colors would be a totally seperate task in the end. I often experience, that my paintings start very colorful but get more and more desaturated in the process. Perhaps that's because flat color patches in the initial sketch become shaded surfaces and the darks and lights in the shading desaturates the image. However, in this image I was able to tweak everything to a point were both the detail is showing and the color stays vivid. I learned a lot from it and it was a great experience all in all.

[pgrimaldi]

Great image ! :applause:
It looks very near of some Richard Corben posters.
I love it :love:

[creinholtz]

Yeah, you have a very nice contrast between the detail and colors and everything shows through perfectly without sacrificing on either end.

[DSedov]

Amazing piece of artwork! I really like colors and composition.

[cglight]

Really attractive work & colors.

[PMD]

What an absolutely incredible piece of work - as someone said, it perfectly captures those pulpy, lurid sci-fi covers from the 70's and 80's - it reminds me of Tim White, which is as high a compliment as I can pay you! Phil

[cyberjobe]

Amazing pic. Flash gordon style.

[Daniel]

Hi Daniel!

Very nice picture, I realy like the progress thread!

Regrads.

[visionmaster2]

i dont like to comment this kind of of thread..because i am sure that my mail box will be full of reply.


great and beautifull work !




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[eze08]

I can't stop looking this image, it is very pleasant to the eye. if you were learning Zbrush now you can be a teacher. ;)
Great the 'story', the characters, the enphasis and the overall result.

[MrPositive]

Absolute 100% pro work. Definitely front page quality material.

[cenkkara]

Great work !

[svenger]

Congratulations! A very nice picture. I like this "cheesy" old fantasy/sci-fi-look. Great characters. Beautiful colors. Nice story. Exellent!

My only small critic may be the creature's right leg. I don't understand, what's happening in that area. Or is it just me? But, nevertheless, a beautiful artwork!

(ok. After seeing your WIPs, it's now clear to me :) )

[lostxian]

WOW Amazing .....COOL...

[flaviomonteiro]

great color´s family

[lostxian]

attractive
spada...

[OskarYang]

Wunderbar!
Die Farbe sind sehr schön. Ganz speziell.
5 Sterne!

[fahadkhan]

amazing work

[PapaNinja]

Great pulp picture. The colors are amazing :applause:

[Glasko]

This is fantastic.

The colors, the character... this would be a fantastic starting point for a CG classic-style science fiction. Very impressed, keep it up :).

[iKAL]

Really nice piece! I dig the lighting alot, but moreover the composition and the hero characters pose. :thumbsup:

[MindSymbion]

Great Daniel!
You did a fantastic work with ZBrush!
The Uplift universe is well represented with this piece of art.
5 stars!!!

[Anatoli]

Great work :thumbsup:

[eLcomprador]

Great colors and great mood! 5* from me :thumbsup:

[DogBreath]

Very beautiful scene, really great characters, I look foward to seeing your next ZBrush creation.

[Molier]

Great work.

[IllustriousWarriors]

This is so awesome, I need make up a few words...its MegaSuperCoolerThanA Lot of stuff. 5*. Has that artistic Frank Frazetta/Fantasy coolness.

[VALZ]

Man, this is art!... Richard Corben would be jealous of this piece, really. I follow all the process on the zbrushcentral forum, you did a wonderful job.
Regards.

[FireEyes]

crazy!
composite and colors!
congratulations!:cool:

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[ChainsawsinTyria]

those contrasting colors work well

[chenxuan]

it's amazing,it has delicious flavour of the magic theme.
it's very great.but color contrast is too strong.
i have liked background.yes.

[Matteo-Sacco]

Excellent, as your previous award ;)

[KAWsWANG]

good (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=121&t=675662) job
nice work

[Mogicanin]

Great characters, nice colours! The monster is awesome.

[abynum]

Nice art. Great pose from the alien girl.

[Ammarkk]

Very nice work ..... Congratulations ..

[SwampStar]

Damb, I love this. Any chance you were inspired by Frank Frazettta???

great job. mmm the colours are great

[frogchild]

ha, cool, looks like it needs to be on a heavy metal album cover.

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[RicoD]

Fabulous! Love how it reminds me of a '70's sci-fi comic / movie! The colors and whole finish had me thinking it was a 2D piece at first, very nice! Congrats on making it to the front page, well deserved!

[persianglad]

i cant see any afraid in the man's face... :eek:

[sinsemilla]

I love the style, the blend of Japanese style painting with sci-fi works really well. The colors are amazing, im addicted to how colors blend and this satisfies me!

The only crit I have is with clouds, as the cloud layer for the viewers planet seems to go around the other two orbiting planets, it makes my perception of their size become small. The atmosphere would only be on the viewer planet so the clouds should not be behind the other two planets. Sorry for the geeky crit :blush: but I do love the image and style :) :thumbsup: 5 Stars

[nightwoodwolf]

great image

[Al-Kabeer]

Excellent work… Keep it up!

[digitaldecoy]

Hey, I guess it's time for a big fat THANK YOU! for your nice comments! You really filled this thread with a massive dose of positive energy and for that I'm really greatful!

I also want to reply to some of your comments:

My only small critic may be the creature's right leg. I don't understand, what's happening in that area. Or is it just me? But, nevertheless, a beautiful artwork!

Thanks for the crit! The viewer should be able to understand everything without having to look at the WIP, so I guess I have to have an eye on things like that. 3D often gives you the feeling that everything explains itself because it's there in the model. But you have to pay attention to the same things as in painting, I guess.

The colors, the character... this would be a fantastic starting point for a CG classic-style science fiction. Very impressed, keep it up :).

Thanks! In fact, I developed a rough storyline in the last few month and the character is taking shape in my head. I will definitely work on more Captain Orion Artworks in the future.

it's very great.but color contrast is too strong.

Yeah, these colors are pushed to the limit. I noticed, that it heavily depends on the screen how the colors read in the end. But I like how it prints out. The colors are a bit muted in the print.

Damb, I love this. Any chance you were inspired by Frank Frazettta???

Frazetta is the man! :) I will always have his influence in my artwork because I really love his art.

The only crit I have is with clouds, as the cloud layer for the viewers planet seems to go around the other two orbiting planets, it makes my perception of their size become small. The atmosphere would only be on the viewer planet so the clouds should not be behind the other two planets.

That critic I haven't heard the first time. It's quite obvious that something is not right in terms of a classic space scenario. The thing is, that the adventures of Captain Orion take place in an alien atmosphere cloud were countless planets float in a coherent 'bubble' of breathable atmosphere. You can travel between those planets without spacecrafts and of course you have clouds between the planetoids in this scenario. But I see, that this is not really conveyed in this single image. I'll have to elaborate on that scenario in future artwork. :)

Thanks again to all you folks and stay tuned to new glimpses into the world of Captain Orion!

And I also want to add, that due to the positive response to this artwork, I made it available as a digital print on my website (http://www.digitaldecoy.de/portfolio_digitaldecoy/dd_docs/prints.php?lang=eng).

[jan-vincent]

Awesome awesome work!
One thing that bothers me is the moon on the right. Looks really close. Or did you want it to look like that?

[shadowseve]

Very interesting. Great Colors

[suzsmith]

Color contrast in this picture is awesome. Wonderful stuff.

[darkshadow]

WOW. I love it. the detail, the style, the colors, the sculpting, and the lighting are damn good.
5 stars from me :love:

[ChristopheFauconneau]

very nice scene! lighting and colors are very good.

[GrogMcGee]

I really like this.

It's made better by the totally awesome story for Captain Orion.

And also congrats on getting being in the winter issue of 3d world.

[Tyralis]

I love this genre.
The monster looks great.

[ricardoduarte]

very good, the colors applied to scenary is fantastic. and also the characters!

[SebastianWunnicke]

Hi. I saw the making of your image in the digitalartforum. The style is great, especially the bonbon colors. My congratulations, for the high ranking here.

greetings,

Sebastian

[MAXDREEM]

very nice love ittttttttttttttt sooooooooooooooo much..........

[WN85]

:applause: adoration!!

[Basodee]

I love your work!! I look forward to more zbrush paintings from you.http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/51653/51653_1221597850_medium.jpg (http://features.cgsociety.org/gallerycrits/51653/51653_1221597850_large.jpg)

Title: Saving the Alien Girl
Name: Daniel Lieske
Country: Germany
Software: Photoshop, ZBrush

This was my entry to the Uplift Universe CG Challenge.

it's quite an unusual piece for me because it's completely sculpted and rendered in ZBrush. I used Photoshop only for compositing and for the clouds. Since it was a CG Challenge entry, the making of this image is documented in detail in my challenge thread over here:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?postid=5033473#post5033473[/QUOTE]

[Riozaki]

That alien is Awesome!

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