Grand Space Opera 2D Entry: Carlos E. Vega

#21

This is huge bus, public transport basically. It hops from station to station, carrying passengers back and forth from one to the other.

#22

This is the first concept with a bit a color, trying to create a mood. Needs work, is not alive yet, I mean to communicate a better sense of grandeur a sesnse of how titanic these structures are. A space city…

#23

dude. your a quick mover. i like the vehicle concepts.

no crits… just putting in my 2 p… looks truly hype so far.

#24

I think this concept has a better feel for what I’m trying to capture. The view is from one of the window walls of the “City Movers” looking out on the scenery. On the bottom there is a family who recently just arrived looking out. I’ll make a bigger sketch with more detail. This one feels like it could be a final approach.

#25

Artie — Thanks, This last sketch I feel very strongly for the more I look at it. I think it play much better the scale factor, I thinmk the fact that is vertical helps a lot too.

selvagem — Thanks, I still have a some pieces of the puzzle to figure out, regarding some types of ships/vessels that I still have to develop. I must say that the last sketch i posted (vertical), I think looks very promising. I’m going to try to make a tighter sketch over the weekend. Don’t promise anything since I’ll be in the at work all weekend long for sure. One thing’s for sure…I’m having a great time! :slight_smile:

#26

I agree. The new scene works much better with the designs involved, but it makes the image very linear and could work against you if your not carefull. I hope you plan to give it alot of visual depth.

#27

Literally. It’s going to be all about using atmospheric lighting and scale. I’m putting some rough color on the sketch to get a better sense of depth, I’ll try to post it this weekend.
I wish I had more time! I’ll looking into cloning myself, that should help…

#28

OK, I took some of my remaining energy tonight to put some color on the sketch. I decided to put a reflection on the window of the second tier. It would be a great effect to achieve, it means more work. I’m still not sold on it. What do you guys think? The overall effect is much better than the first sketch…way better.

#29

I reckon the reflection is an awesome idea! Maybe make it more obvious where that reflection is coming from… maybe put some of the onderside of the second tier at top of frame…

#30

I think it’s important to depict characters in a space opera scene. Although spaceships and star systems are cool, without that human element, you lose a lot of the emotional appeal that connects to your audience–which are all humans.

#31

clos: The city movers could be near maybe. Creating mass of ships together, like city in the city. It might by more impressive, I think :slight_smile:

#32

This is definitely the sketch I’ll be working on for the Challenge.

phyle It sure needs more detail, you’re idea is certainly the way to go. What I will probably end up doing is adding some structural details on the walls that better comunicates what’s being reflected. Of course once the people are sketched/rendered in more detail should get the point accross as well.

Lunatique Definitely! That’s why I decided to change the angle, aside from adding a better sense of scale, it needed the human element. In the previous sketch the human element was barely visible.

Artie I could definetly bring some of bigger ships closer together to create that skyscraper effect let me give it a try…

Thanks to EVERYONE for their feed back it’s really really helpful. I’ll keep you guys updated. Hopefully I’ll be ready to start a final line drawing soon, maybe this weekend!

:bounce: cLos

#33

:sad: …I can’t wait till Saturday so I can get to work on finalizing the linework for the sketch. and start painting! :applause: There’s lots of great work out there! :thumbsup:

#34

So don’t wait, start right now! :wink:

#35

some great stuff here - I espically like your maerth transport sketch. I think you need to add some human interest, but it can be difficult keeping teh epic feel at same time

#36

Very cool ship designs!:bounce: I like how you are going for the bland star field backgrounds too. Cant wait to see how you are progressing.

#37

oops !! :eek: sorry my last post should read I like how you aren’t going for the bland star field backgrounds. Silly typos

#38

This is a final side view on the MAERTH ships concept. I’m struggling to make time to finalize my entry, it doesn’t look promising though. I’ll try my best till the end. There are so many great entries! I wish I had more time :frowning: Does anyone know if I can change my entry a 3D entry?

#39

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