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leerouse
05-06-2009, 12:10 PM
Hi All

This is my first post here for a long time, busy doing other type of work.
So, here is my latest project. Mountain Pass Checkpoint is partly inspired by an old movie by Michael Winner called 'Hannibal Brookes'. By games like Crysis. And finally a road in Bolivia infamously called 'The Road of Death'
Conceptually it depicts people trying to get through the mountain checkpoint. This I feel would make a great game level for a first person shooter, adding tension of high walled cliffs one side and vertical drop to the death the other side, not to mention the tooled up guards with their roaming spotlights. and not many places to hide or take cover.

Hope you like so far, comments critique and suggestions are welcome with this work in progress.
Everything is carefully sourced from my photographic archive, apart from the distant mountains to which I credit 'cgtextures.com' for the free download, thank you to them.

Many thanks

Lee



Initial Sketch
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/6774/checkpoint2.jpg





Hi Res Composite
http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/7852/checkpoint3.jpg





Closeup Detail
http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/611/checkpointdetail.jpg




Further Concept Detailing
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/9102/checkpoint4.jpg
moonshake
05-08-2009, 10:55 AM
I really like the image and the mood.Perhaps, IŽd be good to add more guards and work out their flashlighs, torchs, etc. You could also draw some humans to indicate scale/proportions and a add bit more depth and detail on the horizon line.
Great work, keep it up
DArcy1
05-09-2009, 12:01 AM
My thought is that your most recent version is FAR too busy, it's completely lost that "isolated pass" feeling you captured (very nicely) in the hi-res; I'd go back to that and start again but being really focused on why you want a particular object in the image.

Second, your photos are very hi-res but your painted elements are not. It's jarring, and I assume you are going to repaint those to match the level of detail in the photographic elements.

Hope that helps.

D'Arcy
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