Dragon fight, Andree Wallin (2D)

[Catfood]

Wow! Great stuff!
*****

[leocda]

One more great job from the lord of shading.

Congrats.

[ServalDragon]

I like it !!! :applause: very nice !!!

[JessevanDijk]

Andree, man, incredible!

[Hecatomb]

Reminds me of Marek Okon's work a lot. Which is a good thing :)

I think you should make the foreground a bit brighter though, it's too much of a big black blob now.

[ChaseStone]

That's sick

[AndreeWallin]

Thanks guys!!

Hetacomb: Yes, actually it's supposed to be a bit brighter, dunno what happened when I cropped the file for the CG upload. This is the original:

http://fc08.deviantart.com/fs45/f/2009/111/f/2/Dragon_vs_soldiers_by_AndreeWallin.jpg

[kiboSVK]

absolut perfect combination cool art and pic :bowdown::thumbsup::applause:

[andreasrocha]

Andree, another masterpiece! You achieved the cinematic feel spot on. Composition is brilliant. The colours are awesome (reminds me of Matthias Verhasselt). The movement of the beast really complements the whole image. Man, I don't know what to say more. You're a true inspiration.

[AIR]

Brilliant!!

[kbarts]

Nice one. I like it.

[Bif]

Made this my desktop background this morning and can't stop looking at it! Super awesome pic! The dragon alone has such great detail, depth, and colors. Sweet!

[phoenix]

Love the action in this painting mate. great work

Regards

[djamadj]

Very inspiring Andree)

actually you are one of my favourite artists around the world!)
really love your works!

[BUZZFX]

Andree, very believable, and this is all Photoshop? Did you render out the Dragon in 3D first or is this all painting? The use of colors and contrast is spot on. :)

[bearfoot]

almost film like.. very cool. great composition and technically perfect !


top work

[thyn]

Man, this is mind blowing :argh:
CGaward for this piece of art !!!

[MarcGoecke]

Very very impressive! The dragon and everything else in the scene looks really good. :thumbsup:

[leavethetvon]

just emailed the link to this thread to myself with the subject line "inspiration".

not a big michael bay fan but i'd pay to see this movie. as long as it wasn't filmed with shaky-cam. ;)

[nvseal]

Man, this is just awesome. I can't wait for the film. :beer: 5*

[moonchild]

man ,that's talent!

great colors.

[degerardo]

Yes very powerfull work! I like it. 5*

[chokata]

Briliant work :thumbsup:

[nickmarshallvfx]

You know what, there is something in the water at RealtimeUK that creates awesome... Collectively and individually the work from RealtimeUK and its artists keeps hitting me like a sledgehammer!

Just amazing work man, nothing more to say.

Nick

[JiDy]

Good job!
I like colors and the composition!
Good Dynamic !

My New Work on Cgtalk (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=133&t=756049)

[AndreeWallin]

Thank you all so much, I'm glad you like it!!

BUZZ: It's all photoshop, used a few textures for the fire and the concrete, though it's mostly overpainted.

[pawest]

great work!

[sabata]

OMG wow I am completely in love with this!
Just the kind of pet I would like to have :D

The quality of this is unreal!

[TMArtist]

Andree,

As always a beautiful piece. Thanks for sharing it with us. Great colors and composition. Excellent!

[TyroneMaddams]

Very nice work!! great composition :)

[shtl]

Nice! Nice image.
Everything in it looks so mastered. From comp to dynamic, design... elements... very inspiring skill. A pleasure to watch. Thanks for it.

[SANDdotDIGITAL]

Amazing, I love the form and shape of the dragon. Great work.

[kiteman]

awesome !! :) you have very high skills !!

[htdog]

Five stars.. Great use of light and rendering. The form and perspective of the advisories vs. the dragon is AWESOME! This piece is very inspiring!!

[DanielWray]

This is amazing, it look's like a still taking from a block buster film. I can't believe you painted it all, talented you are! :D

[fly2thesky]

Wow... Fantastic job! Very good composition, perspective (dof) and color moods.

[knaidu1977]

gud work man :)

[Crayfish]

Great work :)

[PapaNinja]

Oo Amazing work ... A very dynamic picture, I love the compo.
The blur effect is astonish :buttrock:
I hope you'll win an award for this one, it's one of your best piece ^^

5 stars as usual

[Pionier]

yeeah ! finally u get a front page, my congratulations :thumbsup:

very dynamic shot and I like the colours, good job.

(seems like the dragon is said to soldier: give me this ..... shoooter! :) )

peter.

[AndreeWallin]

Wow frontpage, I did not see that coming! Thanks again everyone, this is really appreciated!!

(Pionier: LOL, yes it's Brick Dragon ;) )

[RedArcher]

Awesome, would have made a great shot in the movie "Reign of Fire"

[catizone]

Great in all respects!

Love the composition...and also the way it makes the viewer feel he is in the path of the coming dragon. Love the way you framed the dragon and main action.

If there is any "suggestion" about it that might improve it, I'd say that I wouldn't take the foreground black so deep...so close to 0,0,0...and that's being knit-picky...

Great job!

Rick

[Hideyoshi]

damn you Andree, damn you!! :scream:
Congrats on frontpage man! Hope you get an award already!

[BrettSinclair]

Yowza! Really cool. Love dragons. I'm very fussy with them though. This ones great:thumbsup:

[Branko]

Great work, you certainly did succeed!

[ambient-whisper]

Wow frontpage, I did not see that coming! Thanks again everyone, this is really appreciated!!

(Pionier: LOL, yes it's Brick Dragon ;) )

no problemo. its been on queue to be plugged for some time. the piece has a lot of energy in the movement so i just had to plug it.

congrats.

[RobertF]

Thats really REALLY cool

-R

[Galvo]

Congrats! Really amazing stuff here! The shading is simply awesome.

[dimms]

And my comment will be 50th:)
Stunning work, hey.

[Konarovic]

wow a good piece of work

[shoey]

Fantastic work Andree, well done :beer:

[AndreeWallin]

Thank you all once again!! :)

Catizone: Yes I know, it was just me being an idiot an accidentally saving it in CMYK mode. You'll find a brighter version a bit further down on the first page.

[LS Knight]

Great fun and well done!

[RayBender]

Andree! i already commented on this on DA, but i have to congrat you here again.. damn nice job !
110% worth the frontpage plug.

:)

[aksu]

Absolutely loving the cinematic look!

[shoey]

Thank you all once again!! :)

Catizone: Yes I know, it was just me being an idiot an accidentally saving it in CMYK mode. You'll find a brighter version a bit further down on the first page.
I actually prefer the darker one. It's more saturated and contrasty. If you're after Michael Bay, i think the contrast works best :D

[foxco]

Amazing work. You have done a great job brining out the Midground while maintaining a subtle background and strong silhouetted foreground.

[MikkoK]

Very nice work Andree, your sense of color is excellent!

Cheers!
Mikko

[L-rac]

It dosn't get more cinematic than this! You did an awesome job on the composition.
I absolutely love this piece. Congrats!

[niEt0]

Astonishing!

[frogchild]

who doesn't like dragons?
















nice composition.

[mike33]

Call me a composition party pooper but...

The dragon seems to heavy/bulky for a dragon, maybe it's because the image is so confined, or it's the view point.

In regards to the soldiers, two of them, on the left side, seem to be completely unaware they are about to be fried, or out of pose for a dragon attack... it just seems out of context for an image that's suppose to be modern soldiers vs. a dragon. Shouldn't they be crouching or more aware? I know the speed of the dragon is an issue, but some of the guys had enogh warning to get a targeted missile off.

Last, and it's hard to tell due to the view point, but the wing position, vs location, vs height from ground don't seem to jive. The telephone pole seems to close in relation to the wing span... but all of this is related to not knowing where the action is coming from, and what the surrounding area is like.

I'm curious if you considered the layout of this part of a city/town and any placement of soldiers vs. dragon before composing the final image?

Yes, I am anal, I'm in engineering... so its difficult to step back from the nitty gritty sometimes.

I'm also a hobbiest/dabbling artist so you can take my comments lightly, they are related to trying to learn about composition and understanding what other people do to create their work... I'm not trying to be a jerk.

In regards to textures, lighting, the dark foreground, I think you did a real nice job...

Thank you for sharing your work... I do like it.

~Mike

[CGTalk Moderation]

This thread has been automatically closed as it remained inactive for 12 months. If you wish to continue the discussion, please create a new thread in the appropriate forum.