PRE-PRODUCTION THREAD:Concept Art for Next Challenge: Post here..

[RobertoOrtiz]

We need concept art for :

Rocketmen
Airships
Heroes
Bad guys
Enviroments

Reference:

Amelia Earhart (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geu4zJ7UJKC3YAm4tXNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=amelia%20earhart&sado=1&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-501)
wwi pilots (http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0geu8BE7kJKH0IBsN1XNyoA?ei=UTF-8&p=wwi%20pilot&fr2=tab-web&fr=yfp-t-501)
Zeppelin (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppelin)
Ford Trimotor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Trimotor)

[japetus]

so would low poly models work as concept art or would that be working too much towards the modeling challenge?

[WyattHarris]

I don't think I quite get the scope of this challenge yet so I'll wait and see what more details emerge.

My questions:
Do you want us to do concept drawings for the challenge?
Do you need concept drawings before the challenge starts?
Do you want us to do concept models for the challenge?

Yeah I know, they overlap a bit.

[RobertoOrtiz]

so would low poly models work as concept art or would that be working too much towards the modeling challenge?
That would work toward the challenge.

Here is how it works, if you alaready have a vision of something you want to model
you DONT NEED concept art. As long as it is in the spirit of the topic of the challenge you can model it.





Do you want us to do concept drawings for the challenge?.
If you wish,
but already have concept art accumulated for this challenge (and I am doing some myself)
I just wanted to give a chance to the modellers to create some concept art of their own before we go live.


Do you need concept drawings before the challenge starts?
.

If you wish, but you dont need to.

Do you want us to do concept models for the challenge?.
See above

[tuckerhcool]

so are we talking about like futuristic ideas from a mind in the 1930s?

Rocketeer style?
http://www.popsci.com/files/imagecache/photogallery_image/files/articles/jetpack2.jpg

The National Library of France has print from 1910 that show what they thought the year 2000 would be like.

http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/9/10/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-1910.html

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RuSWCaUY0HI/AAAAAAAABEQ/LEATc1Edg54/s1600/Sentinel%2Badvanced%2Bin%2Bthe%2BHelicopter.jpg

or are we coming up with what could have existed then? like.....

http://www.aviastar.org/pictures/germany/he-178.jpg

[tuckerhcool]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sGYULzoQCgA/RuSQzKUYz6I/AAAAAAAABCo/coMDw2HAWaM/s400/Ae%CC%81ronat+with+the+long+course.jpg

[RobertoOrtiz]

Rocketeer style?
yep you got it

[tuckerhcool]

heres what i have so far... sorry about the quality i had to use my phones camera cause i dont have a scanner :(
http://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=6958d8256f&view=att&th=1221ac61ceb1f5a4&attid=0.1&disp=emb&zw

as for the engine on the back pack i was thinking of doing something along a smaller version of this rocket engine meant for a plane.

http://tanks45.tripod.com/Jets45/ListOfEngines/img3/He-S-3.jpg

any critiques or suggestions would be more then welcome.

[RobertoOrtiz]

I cant see your images for some reason....

BTW here is a trailer of Nausicaa for inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSba9hwCaU

[tuckerhcool]

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/84/l_5053cfba7377423395585a92897f985e.jpg


is that better?

[tuckerhcool]

heres a shot with the engine on his back

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/111/l_d4facf987cb044f0be962ddc78682655.jpg

[japetus]

I love the pulp rocketeer style! I'm excited!!

http://www.francescofrancavilla.com/images/blog/rocketeer_blow_blog.jpg

[tuckerhcool]

ok heres the engine for the pack

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/86/l_46ff732415844792bc672751b845b8ea.jpg

[Alanise]

So I am new to the community and my first time participating in one of the challenges so I want to make sure I am on the right track.

So I am usually more interested in the environment so I was wondering what would change if there were air ships instead of subway stations and people used jet packs instead of bikes and cars so I came up with a building concept idea that has an airship landing and a landing area for pedestrians on jet packs - since everyone is in the air I put machinery on ground level. Excuse my crude sketches as I usually just go to modeling once I get an idea.

I posted the idea as I might use it but I can see how there can be spins off or just certain areas done like just the air ship landing area or the jet pac landing area for others to have inspiration to spin off from.

So let me know if I am on track or spinning off too far.


http://www.facetedmind.com/storage/post-images/Air-ship%20sketch-color-small.jpg (http://www.facetedmind.com/storage/post-images/Air-ship%20sketch-color.jpg)

http://www.facetedmind.com/storage/post-images/Air-ship%20sketch-small.jpg (http://www.facetedmind.com/storage/post-images/Air-ship%20sketch.jpg)

[WyattHarris]

I cant see your images for some reason....

BTW here is a trailer of Nausicaa for inspiration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSba9hwCaU
I love Miyazaki's use of flight in his movies, always spellbinding.

So pretty much anything from "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" is what you are looking for.
http://cinephile.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/03-07-sky-captain-and-the-world-of-tomorrow.jpg

[RageOfAges]

The National Library of France has print from 1910 that show what they thought the year 2000 would be like.

http://www.paleofuture.com/blog/2007/9/10/french-prints-show-the-year-2000-1910.html



Oh man, those are awesome. I Wish I had wings strapped to my back!! I'm gonna start conceptualizing for the year 2100 :)

-Rage

[RobertoOrtiz]

Here is some of the concept art we have accumulated:

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o99/garybedell/queenoftherocketmensm.jpg

http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o99/garybedell/piratelord.jpg

Gary Eugene Bedell II

http://img504.imageshack.us/img504/2605/rocketmancd7.jpg (http://imageshack.us/)

http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/7274/conceptair01.jpg
Sergey Kolesov

http://www.dplays.se/cgtalk/1813airship2hours_2.jpg
david wranding

[jojo1975]

wow that seems very interesting stuff ! :) I love it

[lucerro]

Another nice movie for some inspiration is "Sky Crawlers" its new anime from the ghost in the shell creator, It is kinda a tough/slow watch but there are some sweet 40's WWII style aircraft designs in there and the scenes in the movie with em are all CG too.

Image results for Sky Crawlers (http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=sky%20crawlers&oe=UTF-8&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi)
http://photos.bravenet.com/272/478/925/3/3261364FE4.jpg

[bowly]

I'd like to join in on this HMC so I did some concept art, I hope it's ok. I think this will be a good oppertunity to practice my female modeling which is pants at the moment.

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y243/bowly69/queenoftherocketmen2copy.jpg

[razeverius]

When does the challenge start? I'm making my concept arts to join in for :) btw, does the concept art need to be done in photoshop and not a sketchpad? I suck badly on a drawing tablet:blush:

[TiMrozek]

razeverius: Don't know about when it's starting but I am certain that it doesn't matter how you go about doing your concept work.

[razeverius]

thanks for the reply TiMrozek

[razeverius]

ok, so here's what i've sketched out. did a quick sketch at school. Had an idea making a zeppelin battleship type of thing.

http://i618.photobucket.com/albums/tt265/razeverius/Zeppelincraft_small.jpg

Hope the scan is clear enough to see

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