If the city is too warm, it’ll shift too close to the spaceship, and you might lose the sense of depth/seperation.
I’d say, desature the city in the first version by 50%, then change the city lights to all cool lights, then randomly change some of the lights to warm lights.
I’m not to sure about you guy’s but I think this is probably the best colour combination I could get. Maybe just a little too much green on the lights at this stage but I will get around that tomorrow. Still need to fill the backdrop lights on the city below the platform, apply a bit of depth of field so there will be a better balance on the focus point and a few touch ups here and there. A big that’s to Walrus, Gaia’s Herald, praguer28 and Lunatique for the thoughts and ideas.
walrus: after a few attempt working on the idea you suggested I just couldn’t get the look and feel right. I seem patches of colours were forming on the build surface. But never the less thank you so much for the input. Even it didn’t work out it was worth the try and of course I still think your clever. Many thanks.
Lunatique: A very big thanks to you. At times when I’m stuck you come up with this great solution. I’m not too sure if this is how you imagined it, but it seem to work by me and makes logical sense, since lights can be in different colours use to uplift other parts of the image. Still needs a bit more work on it but its a great comprise to keep all the important colours within that frame. Many Thanks.
Hey, no prob, it was just a wacky idea, the sort of thing you can never know if it’ll work until you try. But nonetheless, things worked out well: I think this new version is the most readible one you’ve done yet. Both the spaceships and the destiny machine beam all read well on the city backdrop. So good work! Not much left to do, it seems!
-mike
Great work, finally witk the light, the building are not like the same, the energy spiral is always a good concept
The colors are working nicely together. I think some buildings in the city might do with some less brighter lights - maybe a bit more blurry to break the constant sharpness of colors that you have right now in the city.
Hi, The addition of your effects of lights blue are cool and
improves your images, I could suggest you benefitting from this light
to light like second light the vessels and one can the environment
good luck for the end.
walrus: Yep, finalising it. Hopefully making to the end before the last minute countdown.
MDN67: Thanks, it has been a big challenge to get the lights working right. But glad its coming together.
Lovliebutterfly: Agree with you. I will try that, it breaks way from the constant repetitive patterns. Thanks.
Tranchefeux: Not quiet sure what you want to say in the post but thanks for dropping by. Is it something about adding lights to the vessels?
Getting better and better, go on. I meant before some patch lines over the wings, yep. I think you must work on the closest aircraft to make it seem a little bit more realistic (BUT NOT MUCH) .
This is pretty much it. I filled the back drop city lights and reconstructed the spacecraft wings. In addition I have push the intensity of the light beam a little stronger and made some minor fixes here and there. As a last option I have decide not to put in the Zephyr airship, its probably better without it since I want three main elements in this frame. The Destiny light beam being the most important, secondly the Lunar space craft and last of all which ties the whole piece together is the backdrop city. Just going to have a good night rest and have everything set up in the morning.
kuzgunoglu: thanks for your suggestion of adding patch lines to the wings. I’ve decided to take the Lunar spacecraft a little bit further with a new wing and some art nouveau lines to uplift styling.
||) |V| |^|: Humm just double checking what else needs to be done at the moment. I think its pretty much it. Thanks.
Thought I run through a few close up before submitting the final work.
Destiny theory: This one is the process of the Destiny theory in action. Oxygen is collected from the lights rays released into the atmosphere breaking up invisible chemical substance and compressing them for mass collection.
The Lunar spacecraft: The first batch of the elite Lunar spacecraft sent to the Zephyr city to reverse the charge of lighting rays and end the destruction on the global environment.
The Destiny machine: The machine that generates the lighting rays for Oxygen collection. The machine that releases the light rays into the atmosphere.
After a few months in the making its finally completed. A big THANKS to all of you for placing a comment and giving me valuable advice. Its been tough but I have learnt so much and enjoyed placing every pixels on the canvas. Being my very first digital illustration challenge I have already gone beyond what have initially expected. To see this finished is definitely big rewarding. Good luck to all the contestant.
[center]The Destiny synopsis
[left]In 2035, the Zephyr organization known to produce high-tech military equipment formed an alliance with governments around the world in a secret project. Code name Destiny, its a formula discovery allowing mass volume of oxygen to be condense and be stored in a small containment for a first step Mars life experimentation. The Zephyr organization deceived the government and secretly expanded their collection around the globe, extracting majority of the air we breathe in the greedy for power and control.[/left]
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[left]Now 64 years later what is left on Earth is the grand city of the Zephyr kingdom. The Governments who help discovered the formula were are force to retreat to the Lunar space station before Zephyr ruling became unstoppable. In Zephyr world of control, people are force to stay indoors and work as slaves for the exchange of oxygen. There home and work is in one building space, those who had connect to the power holders where the ones who could afford to socially step outside an open environment. On top of the world, the Lunar space station is now well prepared to reverse the cycle and save the environmental catastrophe and its human race from slavery.[/left]
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I couldn’t help myself but had to jump back onto working the final piece as the clock ticks to the end. Just cleaned up some of the green lights patches in the backdrop below the platform and also had a go with the cloud effects around the Lunar spacecraft. Probably to incremental to be notice. All done, even the tiff image has been uploaded.
Many thanks once again to everyone for their help and professional advice, couldn’t have got this anywhere else. I can now take this learning experience and apply it to many other future work. Best of luck, hope everyone will go away being a winner.
Fantastic finale Eric. You have done an excellent job throught. The concept is very futuristic. It has a certain idealness to it. The colors are great, the image has a nice depth to it. Great job!
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Great work. Well I agree with some people about that you have made enough good work as far as a piece which would be published as a cover of a cartoon albume.
It is a kind of feast of color.