Alice in Wonderland, David REVOY (2D)

[Shadowbrooke]

Wonderful composition! And I just love your design of "Alice". Great job!

[victorior]

Beautiful and cute character! Awesome composition! Great work, cheers

[Irawan]

i love this a lot! great composition,style, color and everything,thumbs up!

[TyroneMaddams]

Yeah this is awesome, super cute
:love: :love: :love:

- Ty

[Felideus]

Very beautiful illustration, I love all the details, the color, style and atmosphere, congrats :applause:

[DeeVad]

Woaoo ! thank you a lot for this 5 comments, it's really cool to have those feedback from high skilled digital painters as you all :beer:

[MartinNielsen]

Nice as always old friend.I love the style :)

[Nekranea]

Wonderful work! I love the composition and the color palette, the style is awesome :applause:

[DeeVad]

Hey , that's pleasant to receive a comment from you Martin ! I hope to have time to do again a GGs challenge next your thread it was friendly and fun !

@Nekranea> thanks !

[kiittea]

wow.. What a colour pallette, I like the warm feeling of the whole scene. The characters designs are super sweet, esp Alice and the rabbit, Love the expressions you bought on their face with few strokes and the detail you've put in is amazing. Brilliant work :)

[Jadedarts]

fantastic dream fell to it, works well and looks great

[TheKrakan]

wow ,, so fantastic ,, i Froze toward this one for more than tow moments , just trying to fallow up the characters , wonderful illustration of Alice , and the color you used is superb , good job:arteest:

[Freelah]

Beautiful warm colors. I love every detail. Excellent!

[DeeVad]

Hey, many thanks , Freelah , TheKrakan , Jadedarts , kiittea . First time here after years I get so much comment on Cgs the first day after posting , I feel honored !

[MichaelZHsee]

very nice work David,me like it:)

[DeeVad]

Hey Thanks Michael ! It's a pleasure to receive this comment from you.

[KrakenCMT]

Beautiful work! Great composition, colors and depth!

[Damselfly]

Beautiful work, David! So many interesting details and you've done a wonderful job of story-telling.

[AlexTooth]

I love it. To me, way better than the imaginism stuff!

[DeeVad]

Thanks KrakenCMT, Damselfly and AlexTooth !
I really like like your comments ! :thumbsup:

[HATOOK]

Great work,I like very much.

[KinWong]

Great work,I lik it.

[DeeVad]

Hey, thanks Hatook and Kinwong ;) :beer:

[leigh]

This is fantastic! It's an image that bends my brain a little bit - the more I look at it, the weirder it becomes. I love the way you've woven together the different elements of the image, there's a really great flow and overall it creates a really intriguing and, in my opinion, very successful composition. Your use of the blue for Alice, the cat, the caterpillar and the water at the bottom is really striking against the warmer tones of the rest of the image, and balance the composition really nicely.

This is simply stunning work. I absolutely love it when people create really imaginative images like this - you clearly put a lot of effort into planning the composition and all the elements, and it's really paid off because you've created a truly lovely image.

Front page for you!

[SciFibrow]

nice work man!

[Penruz]

Hello Deevad !
You know already what I think about your work on Alice but I am very happy to see the reception which is made to you here.
Even it is deserved! :thumbsup:

( You think I could send mine?! eheh! :) )

[RenaudBellefon]

Great work, very creatif and perfect execution.

and GG for the top row.

[PascalR]

Great work David, one of my favorites entries for the contest :thumbsup:

[olivS]

Exceptional work, congrats for the well deserved frontpage! As already told you before, I feel that more specs on the broken hourglass and the water torrent would have been welcome. But a masterpiece remains a masterpiece :-)

[ACap]

Beautiful. Colour, composition, mood, rendering - all is in perfect balance. Thank you for inspiration!

[MARTSMONDE]

Whaou great job Deevad :beer:
Excellent

[waheednasir]

very well done mate. congrats...:).

[Consideringthepickle]

This is really inspiring. It's an amazing piece of work and with all the realizations of Alice in Wonderland I've seen it really stands out for it's style. I've followed a lot of your work through the Durian Project and this piece seems to stand out in my mind as going above and beyond the bulk of it.
-Great work! Congrats.

[Irawan]

congratz! :beer:
i have a good feeling since the first time i show this piece.
cu.heri

[wisemasterchief]

David,

you are truly gifted! this recognition is far overdue.. peace

regards,
William

[SasaMihajlovic]

This is beautiful!

[SuperHero]

Congrats on the well-deserved award dude :cool:
what an imagination you have :D

[claudiasutton]

This is absolutely wonderful! I love the little caterpillar. :)

[lilasY]

I like the style and the way you solve compo. Love your works and palette.

[DanielWray]

Such a beautiful scene, very pleasing to the eye.
:thumbsup:

[Elhor]

Great work! Congratz! And it's a bit crazy like a novel) I like a lot of details, that you can take a good look at for a long time :thumbsup:

[PapaNinja]

Oh yeah !
Toulouse powah !
Tu sais déjà ce que j'en pense :D
Félicitation mon grand, va falloir écluser ça :beer:

[victorior]

Congrats for the award! Brother :D

[Felideus]

Congratulations on the award, you totally deserve it :thumbsup:

[Penruz]

Bien joué David!
:beer:

[PixelOrgy]

its cool how u intertwined the objects and make a world out of it!

[Djampa]

WOw !

How cool, awesome composition, nice color choices, great mood.

Congratulations ! Keep it up

[astitchintime]

Beautiful and holds the magic of the original story.

A victory for gimp too! Hmmm...

[RicoD]

Gorgeous piece! The various and beautiful elements make me explore through it, constantly discovering new wonders. Quite fitting for the theme!

[DeeVad]

Many thanks all for the comments and thanks to all friends commenting here a lot of so nice comments and I can't answer to each one but be sure I read them all carefully ,
That's a real present to receive the CG choice Award with this piece at the same time of SVMaerospace and Elhor and few time after Felideus.

Thanks ! ! !

In my opinion , the CG choice Award is the biggest, more valuable and more difficult prize to obtain in digital painting or illustration. I'm really honoured to now being displayed on the Choice Gallery at CGTalk.

And I have another reason to feel honoured ; I'm the first 2D awarded with Gimp / Mypaint / Alchemy on Linux... This openness and recognition from CGsociety is really valuable for my work with Free/Libre Open Sources Softwares on Linux.

Thousand thanks CGsociety !

( PS : Special :beer: for Penruz , olivS, waheednasir, MichaelZHsee and PapaNinja )

[SVMaerospace]

And congrats to you too! This is such a beautiful work! Thank you for mentioning me :)

You are truly outstanding!!:applause:

[Maya3dart]

Awesome artwork !!! i really love it, and loved the movie !

Cheers!

[Gord-MacDonald]

Sweet work!!!

[scala]

Bravo Félicitations . :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause: :applause:

[LoneGreyCloud]

Bravo.
Awesome work. Great details, great mood.
Continue!

[DeeVad]

Hey thanks a lot !

I think it's the good time to share my chaotic receipt ;


http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingof01_grid-alchemy.jpg
1. I started the image with a bit of experimenting in Blender ; I rendered a grid with a wire frame material and played with the node compositor to have a fish-eye effect. During the time I made this I thought about the feeling I wanted to develop in this illustration ; the deformation of space and time ( but this last one is difficult to show in a still picture ).
So, playing with a grid is fun in Blender and experimentation is always fun too.

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingof01b_applygrid.jpg
2. With Alchemy , I started to produce Chaos , ( My conception of 'Chaos' is already developed in this video : http://davidrevoy.com/?article24/video-time-lapse-lezard as well as in my DVD http://www.blender3d.org/e-shop/product_info_n.php?products_id=122 ) , and I had cut part of warped grid over the chaos. It produced a good mix of unknown shapes but in a perspective environment.

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingof02_alchemy.jpg
3. Here are the result of my chaos done with Alchemy, with my grid done with Blender, and the central character sketched.

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingof03_firstelement.jpg
4. I coloured my chaos in orange ; my dominant colour tone in the illustration and started to paint detail after details inspiring by the shapes I was seeing in the chaos. Same process than the Rorschach test (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach_test) or when kid recognize shapes in the clouds ; for me a strong creative process.

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingof04_moreelement.jpg
5. All main elements of the illustration appear one by one this way, without particularly try to blend transition between different places.

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingof05_composition.jpg
6. Of course, all this element started to create a big mess with composition, and I had to work to crop ; arrange and find transition more or less easy for the eyes to makes all the element fit in one picture. That was may be the most painful part of the illustration.

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice.jpg
7. And here is the final :)

http://david.revoy.free.fr/forums/2010-Weekly-Illustration/03-alice-makingofZ_softwares.jpg
8. In addition to the curious that didn't imagine or never seen what look like Mypaint and Gimp-painter on my LinuxMint system , I copied this 2 screenshots. Those software are really productive and are stable... a very good environment for professional digital painting.

I hope you liked this little 'making of ' , thanks again for the award !

[Branko]

Super colours and great dynamics!

[Chrysale]

Chapeau bas, David, du très très beau travail !
Wonderful work!

[lilasY]

Nice ilustration of Alice, was a pleasure to read your workflow.


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[yhy122755490]

gimp ? i like gimp

[Nera]

I love the composition and dynamics of this pic. It's spectacular.:thumbsup:

[aradarena]

Been very good

[talloori]

Great job...

[Zazizizou]

I have been following you during the Durian Project (Saw this on the Durian Blog by the way)
And this just look AWESOME :O :O !!

The Open Source community is proud of you now :D.

:bowdown:

[donShole]

Lovely image, inspirational. I'm really enjoying your chaos and evolutions DVD too!

[beelow]

Wow, you've really stepped it up a notch. Nicely done David. Composition, and storytelling, you really nailed it with this one. Congrats, on the award.

[JackZhang]

finally a choice award~ gratz

[Shadowbrooke]

Wow! Congrats on the CG Choice Award!!! :applause:

[Rivers]

Très joli, avec " special Alice spirit". Could be a great illustration to the book.

[abynum]

Cute, clever, and altogether very swell, I love it.

I do, however, find the teacup in the upper right-hand corner a bit peculiar. Considering how surreal the image (and source material) happen to be, the gravitational pull on the tea pouring from the cup, however accurate in the real world, somehow feels out of place. Great piece otherwise.

[Hesketh]

Very good it just draws you in so much to look at, well done good detail


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[juanmigueltomala]

This is simply amazing. I didn't know you could paint such a beautiful artowork on GIMP and MyPaint. Congrats man!

[ARTOONATOR]

Congrats on the excellent work!

[Quackgamez]

From where shall i start.. I think its a beautiful Illustration with wonderful colors, characters, nice detailing on tree.

Excellent work David. Great to see your work.

Thanks for sharing it.

Cheers,
Sachin Sachdeva

[gandoza]

Great illustration and lighting.
Congratulations.

[sankeymon]

fine work dude.......

[RichardLundstrom]

The colorscheme is really amazing, nice work. I love how the perspective and the angles just makes you twist your head back and forth, side to side, to take everything in.
Really nice work.

[whity101]

Love the style and personality you put into the characters and environment. Great work.

[Larry_g1s]

Very nice rendition and beautiful colors.

[CGaturist]

WOW.interesting work.I love it:D
..............................

[eyetood]

brilliant!! your work bursts with character. the scene has great movement. very nice use of color in designing the comp

[Goatfuzz]

Nice to see a playful image!

[LittleBlade]

Wow, stunning !

[olive2d]

Wow David! Nice work ! This illustration is beautiful.
Render is very nice, toonish style too!
I really love warm colors of The illustration.
Hope to see new works from you soon ;-)

[RedClover]

Ce dessin d'Alice au Pays des Merveilles est vraiment splendide.
On sent bien une interprétation très personnelle, on est loin d'u plagiat de Disney !

Great Job David ! :thumbsup:

[CyrilT]

Beautiful illustration ! nice composition, really great colors .... congrats for the contest it's totaly deserved man !

[RyanNore]

Beautiful surrealism! Technically immaculate and ascetically alluring. Thank you for sharing.

[German]

wow your skills are amazing! big up!

[sythex]

Surreal and mesmerizing. I love how everything is interconnected.

[bedemand]

Great characters, love the huge amount of details..

Nice job :)

[Kepicy]

Wonderful composition!Nice tone!I like the feeling.

[S3bY]

Amazing job, David!I love the composition and and the attention to small details! It looks out of this world!

[lays]

The white rabbit with the red jacket is super cute!!I like the warm color and environment that you paint!

[Stormchain]

all is well, astonishing details but hell, i just dont feel Alice there. she looks like one of wonderlands creatures. lacks some realism aspect