Holy sh*t!! Really extraordinary piece of work, excellent environment! :buttrock:
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city battle with mech
MrGhoste
#25
wow, Iāve had to change my monitor brightness, but now it looks really good, maybe you should make it brighter or paint some highlights, nice work 
igorstshirts
#26
It looks shitty on my 1024 Sun monitorā¦ It looks amazing on my Sony 1600ā¦ Nice work. Just do a Levels job on it in Photoshop.
slime
#30
Excelent work. I dont think itās that dark. Itās just how it should look at dawn.
Congratulations. I think it deserves front page too
Shade01
#31
Just curious: Iāve also seen that pic at conceptart.org and it looks different, like the absence of the mech and the cropping of the picture and other little things. Is this the same artist and which picture came first?
EricUNSL
#32
If the foreground was illuminated by a unseen explosion in the foreground it would solve alot of problems and draw more attention to the mech. Then it would really be a killer piece. Hope Rec decides to go back into it. After all this work, a few minutes of dropping in a orange glow and foreground highlights couldnāt hurt. Right now thereās no main focus.
illustr8r
#34
Shade- I followed the link you posted for the conceptart.org the thread. If you read through it you can see that it is the same artist, Rowan Cassidy, and the mech was added in after the original background creation.
So, I posted earlier saying that I thought this piece was not too dark and great the way it is and that I vote for front page. I thought this was so great that I set it as my desktop image. I still stand by my earlier comments, but since Iāve been looking at it a lot on my desktop, I starting thinking about the ātoo darkā and āno point of interestā comments and thought about a possible solution.
I thought that perhaps if there was an explosion behind the mech it would add more contrast and create a more defined focal point. A good dark silhouette on a light background can sometimes really punch up a piece. I went ahead and rocked a quick 10-15 min paint-over to illustrate what I was thinkingā¦I, uhā¦maybe got a little carried awayā¦heh. It turned out more rendered than I thoguht it would in a quick paint-over. But, anywayā¦ Rec, I hope you donāt mind, I donāt want to mangle your beautiful piece. I think that it stands solid on its own, this is just a possible way to make it so you donāt get so many ātoo darkā comments. Iām sure that you could paint it better than me, but maybe I can inspire you to take your masterpiece a little further.
Cheers
Just to make this clear:
The piece below was originally created by REC and posted on page 1 of this thread, all I did was a quick paint-over on his great piece to suggest the possibility of putting an explosion behind the mech. I donāt want to take credit for his amazing workā¦look at his masterpiece here: original post by Rec
p.s. Rec, If you donāt like having my paint-over in your thread, let me know and Iāll take it off. Just wanted to present a possible option to inspire you. 
Blackhorse
#36
This is awesome! 
the envirment is familar with Matrix! very good visual effect!
my suggestion is about the lighting, ya know , the fire should lit large part of the image.
cheers!
JakalDesign
#38
Realy awsome. Hard to believe that its 2D. Better done that most 3d artists could do. Thumbs upā¦ great stuff
taemee
#40
damnā¦ over all feelā¦ amazing. its telling the whole storyā¦
best treatment of colours and specially the smoky feelingā¦ ahhan ahhnā¦
smashed itā¦
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